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),
Lunch with Marlene Lunch with Marlene Lunch with Marlene is a stage comedy written by Chris Burgess. It is based on the friendship of acting legends Marlene Dietrich and Noël Coward. The two were respectively portrayed by Kate O'Mara and Frank Barrie in the play's original London production, which ran at the New End Theatre from 28 March 2008 through 27 April 2008. Musical direction and arrangements by Neil MacDonald who also played the role of the waiter and pianist. Reviews for the production were generally positive, with The New York Times commenting that the play is "far from perfect, yet it is