Marlene Dietrich shot at Babelsberg film studios. Josef von Sternberg directed the film and thereafter took credit for having "discovered" Dietrich. The film is also noteworthy for having introduced Dietrich's signature song "Falling in Love Again", which she recorded for Electrola and later made further recordings in the 1930s for Polydor and Decca Records. In 1930, on the strength of "The Blue Angel's" international success, and with encouragement and promotion from Josef von Sternberg, who was already established in Hollywood, Dietrich moved to the United States under contract to Paramount Pictures, the US film distributor of "The Blue Angel". The studio sought
Marlene Dietrich filmography films directed by Sternberg, including "Dishonored" (1931), "Blonde Venus" (1932), and "Shanghai Express" (1932). Dietrich and Sternberg's last two film collaborations, "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) and "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935)—the most styled of their collaborations—were their least successful at the box office. Her first sound film without Sternberg was 1933's "The Song of Songs", directed by Rouben Mamoulian, although she and Sternberg would later work together another two times. But without Sternberg, Dietrich—along with Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Dolores del Río and others—was labeled "box office poison" after the movie "Knight Without