Marlene Dietrich well as George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah" and "Misalliance". It was in musicals and revues such as "Broadway", "Es Liegt in der Luft", and "Zwei Krawatten", however, that she attracted the most attention. By the late 1920s, Dietrich was also playing sizable parts on screen, including roles in "Café Elektric" (1927), "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" (1928), and "The Ship of Lost Souls" (1929). In 1929, Dietrich landed the breakthrough role of Lola Lola, a cabaret singer who caused the downfall of a hitherto respectable schoolmaster (played by Emil Jannings), in the UFA production of "The Blue Angel" (1930),
The Spoilers (1942 film) The Spoilers (1942 film) The Spoilers is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright. The movie is set in Nome, Alaska during the Nome Gold Rush, with Marlene Dietrich as Cherry Malotte, Randolph Scott as Alexander McNamara, and John Wayne as Roy Glennister, and culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between McNamara and Glennister. "The Spoilers" was adapted to screen by Lawrence Hazard from the 1906 Rex Beach novel of the same name. Film versions also appeared in 1914, 1923 (with Noah Beery Sr. as McNamara and Anna Q. Nilsson as Malotte), 1930 (with Gary Cooper as Glennister