Actress and cabaret performer Marlene Dietrich and jazz trumpeter Louis

From left to right: Buff Cobb, Mary Sinclair, actress Marlene Dietrich, and Faye Emerson appear at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus at New York's Madison Square Garden for a benefit performance for United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, April 2, 1954. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)

Actress Marlene Dietrich, right, models a long sleeved, ankle length, slim gown of gold and white brocade, while Gertrude Mayers, regional director of the Philadelphia Fashion Group wears a silver gray jersey gown highlighted with crystal, in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1957. Dietrich won the Fashion Group's Crystal Tribute award for

This is a 1940 photo of actress and entertainer Marlene Dietrich wearing a gold lame and black silk taffeta wardrobe in Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo)

Some of Marlene Dietrich's luggage, removed from the French liner Normandie, by government agents, is for alleged non-payment of $284,000 income tax for 1936-37, shown on a New York pier, June 14, 1939. Forty minutes later, however, Marlene sailed with all her luggage except "certain quantities of jewelry," which were kept in escrow. (AP Photo/Murray Befeler)

USO show trooper, Marlene Dietrich, is shown rehearing her musical saw act in New York on April 11, 1944 before taking off overseas during World War II. At the piano is Jack Snyder, another member of the USO-Camp Show Troupe. (AP Photo)

Charlie Chaplin talks to Marlene Dietrich, seated, the famous German film-actress, at his room at Hotel Adlon, in Berlin ,Germany on September 3, 1931. (AP Photo)

Rudolf Sieber, husband of Marlene Dietrich, German film star, arrives in Hollywood, Calif., for a visit with his family, pose at Pasadena, Calif., near the movie capital, July 21, 1931. He will stay four weeks with Miss Dietrich and their daughter, Maria, 5. Sieber is a movie director in Paris. (AP Photo)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO Marlene Dietrich is surrounded by her daughter in Paris, 27 November 1959, after she performed at the Theatre de l'Etoile. Marie Magdalene Dietrich was born in Berlin-Schoneberg, 27 December 1901. Married in 1923 to Rudolf Sieber, she gave birth to a daughter, Maria Elizabeth Sieber. After she had appeared in 17 silent films from 1921 to 1929, Dietrich became the venus of sound film with her legendary performance as the nightclub singer "Lola Lola" in "The Blue Angel" (1929/30). Directly after opening night of "The Blue Angel" Dietrich left Germany and went to America, where Josef von Sternberg and Paramount studios were waiting for her. She acted in more than 35 sound movies with the world's best known directors. "Shangai Express" in 1932 and "The Devil is a Woman" in 1935, both directed by Josef von Sternberg, "A Foreign Affair" (1948) directed by Billy Wilder, "Stage Fright" (1951) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, "Rancho Notorious" (1952) directed by Fritz Lang, "Touch of Evil" (1958) directed by Orson Wells, and a legendary courtroom thriller "Witness for the Prosecution (1958) directed by Billy Wilder, "Judgment at Nuremberg" in 1961 directed by Stanley Kramer and finally "Just a Gigolo" in 1978, in which she also performed her last song. In 1944-45 Dietrich entertained American troops in North Africa and Europe, for which she received awards from the United States, France and Israel. She died in her sleep in Paris, 06A'/LM/W3SVC/1/Root/Sy3.1.5a 00365291

Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles / Touch Of Evil 1958 directed by Orson Welles

Marlene Dietrich / Stage Fright 1950 directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Shown at the ball game are from left to right seated are John Garfield, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Babin, Ginny Sims, Jinx Falkenberg and Ann Rutherford, among others on Sept. 8, 1943 in Los Angeles, California . (AP Photo)

Marlene Dietrich, right, walks with her mother, Frau Pauline von Lauch, who met the actress upon her arrival at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 19, 1945. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)

Marlene Dietrich is shown with George Jessel at Santa Anita Race track in Arcadia, Ca., in Feb. 1938. (AP Photo)

Film star Marlene Dietrich dances for the first time since she broke her ankle in a Hollywood studio accident, in New York, Nov. 6, 1941. Her partner is her husband, Rudolf Sieber, film director. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)

Marlene Dietrich, film star, and her husband, Rudolph Sieber, German film director, in Los Angeles, July 11, 1937, as they entrained for New York to sail on a trip to Europe. Their daughter, Maria, accompanied them, but was kept in seclusion in their drawing room. (AP Photo/Harold Filan)

Marlene Dietrich, famous German movie actress poses with her little daughter, Maria Sieber, 5, in her Hollywood home, May 25, 1931. The actress returned to the film capital from a visit to Germany, bringing her daughter with her. (AP Photo)

Actresses Marlene Dietrich, left, and Claudette Colbert have fun at a party on Venice Pier in Los Angeles, Ca., on June 20, 1935. (AP Photo)

Marlene Dietrich / Stage Fright 1950 directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), German-born American singer and actress.