An Evening with Marlene Dietrich these unlicensed selections without their permission. Previously unseen alternate takes of "Lola" and "You're the Cream in My Coffee" were included as bonus features on the Kino DVD release of "The Blue Angel". This material comes from the Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin, which holds all unissued material related to the television special as part of its collection. An Evening with Marlene Dietrich An Evening With Marlene Dietrich is a concert-format television special, starring Marlene Dietrich, first broadcast in 1973. Alexander H. Cohen, who had produced Dietrich's successful Broadway runs of her one-woman show in 1967 and 1968, suggested a television
Marlene Dietrich most fascinating and affecting documentary ever made about a great movie star". In 1988, Dietrich recorded spoken introductions to songs for a nostalgia album by Udo Lindenberg. In an interview with the German magazine "" in November 2005, Dietrich's daughter and grandson claim that Dietrich was politically active during these years. She kept in contact with world leaders by telephone, including Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, running up a monthly bill of over US$3,000. In 1989, her appeal to save the Babelsberg studios from closure was broadcast on BBC Radio, and she spoke on television via telephone on the occasion