She was voted the 43rd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Mother of Maria Riva.

Was voted the 50th Greatest German.

Was named #9 Actress on The AFI 50 Greatest Screen Legends

Measurements: 35-24-33 (in 1930), 36 1/2-26-33 (mid-1950s), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

In Italian films, she was dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi, Tina Lattanzi or Andreina Pagnani.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#60). [1995]

Born at 9:15pm-CET

Is portrayed by Ksenia Prohaska in Bugsy (1991).

Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).

According to daughter Maria Riva, Dietrich had a long-standing dislike of actress Loretta Young.

She spent her last decade in her apartment on the avenue Montaigne in Paris, during which time she was not seen in public but was a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller. In 1984, Academy Award winning actor Maximilian Schell persuaded her to be interviewed for a documentary, but she did not appear on screen.

Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna`s song "Vogue"

First German actress to be Oscar-nominated.

Won a Special Tony Award in 1968.

Proficient on the musical saw.

Once said that her favorite meal was hotdogs and champagne.

The only show-business friend she ever had was Mae West. However, they never saw one another outside the Paramount lot.

She thought of feet to be the ugliest part of the human body, and therefore always tried to hide them in one way or another

Appears on the sleeve of The Beatles "Sgt Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Ten years after her death, Berlin - the city of Dietrich`s birth which she shunned for most of her life - declared her an honorary citizen. On April 18, 2002, the city`s legislature bestowed honor on her as "an ambassador for a democratic, freedom-loving and humane Germany." The declaration hoped this "would symbolize the city of Berlin`s reconciliation with her."

Became an American citizen on March 6, 1937.

Fell and broke her left leg at her last ever last stage appearance in Sydney, Australia, September 1975.

Marlene suffered from bacilophobia, the fear of germs.

She prided herself on the fact that she had slept with three men of the Kennedy clan - Joseph P. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and John F. Kennedy.

She demanded that Max Factor sprinkle half an ounce of real gold dust into her wigs to add glitter to her tresses during filming.

In a posthumous gift of forgiveness, she left her vast collection of memorabilia to the city of Berlin.

Her make-up man said she kissed so hard that she needed a new coat of lipstick after every kiss.

Never worked without a mirror on the set so she could constantly check her makeup and hair.

She sucked lemon wedges between takes to keep her mouth muscles tight.

Her father, a Berlin police lieutenant, died after he fell off a horse when she was ten years old.

Marlene`s father was Lt. Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who died when she was very young. Her mother remarried to Colonel Eduard von Losch, who was killed in WWI.

Interred at Friedhof III, Berlin-Friedenau, Germany.

Her estate, consisting of about 300.000 pieces, was bid for 8 mio. German marks by the city of Berlin, Germany.

Was made a Chevaliere of the Legion by France.

Received the U.S. War Department`s `Medal of Freedom`, in 1947, for entertaining American troops in WWII and her strong stand against Naziism.