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85-479: The theater closed in 2017. In 2019, the building was leased for 10 years by a pair of theater operators who said they would restore and reopen the theater as part of a new entertainment complex. The Earl Carroll Theatre opened on December 26, 1938, with a lavish revue, "Broadway to Hollywood," which featured sixty showgirls ascending 100 treads of stairs to a height of 135 feet. Many Hollywood celebrities were in attendance including Marlene Dietrich , Dolores del Río ,

170-539: 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) shot at Babelsberg film studios . Josef von Sternberg directed the film and thereafter took credit for having "discovered" Dietrich. The film introduced Dietrich's signature song " Falling in Love Again ", which she recorded for Electrola . She made further recordings in

255-510: A chorus girl on tour with Guido Thielscher's Girl-Kabarett vaudeville -style entertainments and in Rudolf Nelson revues in Berlin. In 1922, Dietrich auditioned unsuccessfully for theatrical director and impresario Max Reinhardt 's drama academy; however, she soon found herself working in his theatres as a chorus girl and playing small roles in dramas. Dietrich's film debut was a small part in

340-639: A Day was broadcast from the Moulin Rouge during part of the show's 1956–1964 run. The venue was also used for the 1965 concert film The Big TNT Show . In late 1965 it became the Hullabaloo , a rock and roll club for teenager to capitalize on the popularity of the musical variety show Hullabaloo . For several months in 1968 it was the Kaleidoscope and featured many top West Coast rock acts, with an emphasis on local bands such as The Doors . Later in 1968,

425-661: A German version of Pete Seeger 's anti-war anthem " Where Have All the Flowers Gone ", thus breaking the unofficial taboo against the use of German in Israel . She would become the first woman and German to receive the Israeli Medallion of Valor in 1965, "in recognition for her courageous adherence to principle and consistent record of friendship for the Jewish people". Dietrich in London ,

510-478: A Woman (1935). She successfully traded on her glamorous persona and exotic looks, and became one of the era's highest-paid actresses. Throughout World War II , she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Although she delivered notable performances in several post-war films, including Billy Wilder 's A Foreign Affair (1948), Alfred Hitchcock 's Stage Fright (1950), Billy Wilder's Witness for

595-415: A Woman . Von Sternberg is known for his exceptional skill in lighting and photographing Dietrich to optimum effect, so much so, that even 50 years later, one of Shanghai Express's production stills became the inspiration of the cover of rock band Queen 's album Queen II which was integrated into the music video of their single " Bohemian Rhapsody ". His signature use of light and shadow, including

680-473: A clearance to descend en route to an altitude between 13,000 and 11,000 feet. A little later, a fire warning led the crew to believe that a fire had erupted in the forward cargo hold. They then discharged at least one bank of the CO 2 fire extinguisher bottles in the forward cargo hold. Because they did not follow the correct procedure, the cabin pressure relief valves were closed. This caused hazardous concentrations of

765-412: A collage of film clips from her career. The film won several European film prizes and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary in 1984. Newsweek named it "a unique film, perhaps the most fascinating and affecting documentary ever made about a great movie star". In 1988, Dietrich recorded spoken introductions to songs for a nostalgia album by Udo Lindenberg . In an interview with

850-449: A concert album, was recorded during the run of her 1964 engagement at the Queen's Theatre . She performed on Broadway twice (in 1967 and 1968) and received a Special Tony Award in 1968. In November 1972, I Wish You Love , a version of Dietrich's Broadway show titled An Evening with Marlene Dietrich , was filmed in London. She was paid $ 250,000 for her cooperation but was unhappy with

935-518: A concert tour received a mixed reception—despite a consistently negative press, vociferous protest by Germans who felt she had betrayed her homeland, and two bomb threats, her performance attracted huge crowds. During her performances at Berlin's Titania Palast theatre , protesters chanted, "Marlene Go Home!" On the other hand, Dietrich was warmly welcomed by other Germans, including Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt , who was, like Dietrich, an opponent of

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1020-410: A false alarm, the crew decided to discharge CO 2 bottles into the forward cargo hold, to try to extinguish the possible fire. While proper operating procedure called for opening the cabin pressure relief valves prior to discharging the CO 2 bottles, to allow for venting of the CO 2 gas buildup in the cabin and cockpit, no evidence was found of the crew opening the relief valves. Consequently,

1105-494: A fitting tribute because Dietrich loved flowers, even saving the flowers thrown to her at the end of her performances for use in subsequent shows. Dietrich was interred at the Städtischer Friedhof III , Schöneberg, close by the grave of her mother Josefine von Losch, and near the house where she was born. United Airlines Flight 624 United Airlines Flight 624 , a Douglas DC-6 airliner , registration NC37506,

1190-440: A green Rolls-Royce Phantom II . The car later appeared in their first U.S. film Morocco . Dietrich starred in six films directed by von Sternberg at Paramount between 1930 and 1935. Von Sternberg worked effectively with Dietrich to create the image of a glamorous and mysterious femme fatale . He encouraged her to lose weight and coached her intensively as an actress. She willingly followed his, sometimes imperious, direction in

1275-426: A major success with Dietrich cast as a Mata Hari -like spy. Shanghai Express (1932) with Anna May Wong , which was dubbed by the critics " Grand Hotel on wheels", was another major success, earning $ 1.5 million in worldwide rentals. Dietrich and von Sternberg again collaborated on the romance Blonde Venus (1932) with Cary Grant . Dietrich worked without von Sternberg for the first time in three years in

1360-479: A massive stage with a 60-foot (18 m) wide double revolving turntable and staircase and swings that could be lowered from the ceiling. The building's façade was adorned by what at the time was one of Hollywood's most famous landmarks : a 20-foot-high (6.1 m) neon head portrait of entertainer Beryl Wallace , one of Earl Carroll's "most beautiful girls in the world", who became his devoted companion. The sign survived several changes of ownership and venue name but

1445-476: A robot, trying to recapture the wonderful woman he helped make out of me. I even succeeded in this effort for years, because I always thought of him, always longed for him, always looked for him in the wings, and always fought against self-pity ... He had become so indispensable to me that, without him, I no longer took much joy in singing. When he left me, I felt like giving everything up. I had lost my director, my support, my teacher, my maestro. She often performed

1530-620: A salary of $ 450,000, which made her one of the best paid film stars of the time. While both films performed decently at the box office, her vehicles were costly to produce and her public popularity had declined. By this time, Dietrich placed 126th in box office rankings, and American film exhibitors proclaimed her " box office poison " in May 1938, a distinction she shared with Greta Garbo , Joan Crawford , Mae West , Katharine Hepburn , Norma Shearer , Dolores del Río , and Fred Astaire among others. While in London, Dietrich later said in interviews, she

1615-421: A schmaltzy German love song, 'Das Lied ist Aus' or a French one ' La Vie en Rose ', she lends each an air of the aristocrat, yet she never patronises ... A folk song, 'Go 'Way From My Window' has never been sung with such passion, and in her hands ' Where Have All the Flowers Gone? ' is not just another anti-war lament but a tragic accusation against us all." Francis Wyndham offered a more critical appraisal of

1700-589: A simple bouquet of white wildflowers and roses from the French President François Mitterrand . Three medals, including France's Légion d'honneur and the U.S. Medal of Freedom were displayed at the foot of the coffin, military style, for a ceremony symbolizing the sense of duty Dietrich embodied in her career as an actress, and in her personal fight against Nazism. The officiating priest remarked: "Everyone knew her life as an artist of film and song, and everyone knew her tough stands ... She lived like

1785-581: A soldier and earnestly tell him, "Oh, think of something else. I can't possibly talk about that !" American church papers reportedly published stories complaining about this part of Dietrich's act. In 1944, the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) initiated the Musak project, musical propaganda broadcasts designed to demoralize enemy soldiers. Dietrich, the only performer who

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1870-550: A soldier and would like to be buried like a soldier". By coincidence, her picture was used in the Cannes Film Festival poster that year which was pasted up all over Paris. In her will Dietrich expressed the wish to be buried in her birthplace Berlin, near her family. Her body was flown there to fulfill her wish on 16 May 1992. Her coffin was draped in an American flag befitting her status as an American. As her coffin traveled through Berlin bystanders threw flowers onto it,

1955-562: A third—the mysterious force of her belief in her own magic. Those who find themselves unable to share this belief tend to blame themselves rather than her." Her use of body-sculpting undergarments, nonsurgical temporary facelifts (tape), expert makeup and wigs, combined with careful stage lighting, helped to preserve Dietrich's glamorous image as she grew older. Dietrich had owned a penthouse in New York City at 993 Park Avenue since 1959. Dietrich's return to West Germany in 1960 for

2040-434: A way that a number of other performers resisted. In Morocco (1930) with Gary Cooper , Dietrich was again cast as a cabaret singer. The film is best remembered for the sequence in which she performs a song dressed in a man's white tie and kisses another woman, both provocative for the era. The film earned Dietrich her only Academy Award nomination. Morocco was followed by Dishonored (1931) with Victor McLaglen ,

2125-467: A year at Paramount Pictures before Nickelodeon obtained a lease for the 6238 Sunset Blvd facility, acquiring the soundstage and rebranding it Nickelodeon on Sunset by 1997. Due to limited studio space and the need to control plot spoilage for several programs, only a few series were taped at Nickelodeon on Sunset at a time. As a result, other live-action series produced for the network were filmed in other stage facilities with closed set policies throughout

2210-508: The Café de Paris in London the following year; her Las Vegas contracts were also renewed. Dietrich employed Burt Bacharach as her musical arranger starting in the mid-1950s; together, they refined her nightclub act into a more ambitious theatrical one-woman show with an expanded repertoire. Her repertoire included songs from her films as well as popular songs of the day. Bacharach's arrangements helped to disguise Dietrich's limited vocal range—she

2295-701: The Hair company had its day off, the theater was still sometimes used for rock concerts and the Aquarius consequently became famous for performances there by The Doors on July 21 & 22, 1969, the live recordings of which were later issued commercially. In 1977, it was briefly known as the Longhorn Theatre and has also been called the Sunset Boulevard Theatre . In 1983, the Pick-Vanoff Company purchased

2380-580: The Hollywood area. Some of the shows filmed there for Nickelodeon include all but the first 2 seasons of All That , The Amanda Show , Drake & Josh , and more recently iCarly and Victorious . In 2004, the venue was sold to a private equity firm as part of a larger parcel of property. Nickelodeon moved out of the property in 2017. The Los Angeles City Council designated the 1938 Earl Carroll Theatre Building as an Historic-Cultural Monument during its meeting on December 7, 2016. In September 2016,

2465-419: The J. L. Warners , Richard Barthelmess , Sally Eilers , Edgar Bergen , Claudette Colbert , Constance Bennett , Errol Flynn , Lili Damita , William Gargan , Jackie Coogan , Betty Grable , Mary Livingstone , Phil Harris , Conrad Nagel , Mary Brian , Darryl Zanuck , David O. Selznick , and Norman Krasna . The $ 1,000 membership fee guaranteed a lifetime cover charge and a reserved seat. The building

2550-880: The Medal of Freedom in November 1947, for her "extraordinary record entertaining troops overseas during the war". She said this was her proudest accomplishment. She was also awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her wartime work. While Dietrich never fully regained her former screen profile, she continued performing in motion pictures, including appearances for directors such as Mitchell Leisen in Golden Earrings (1947), Billy Wilder in A Foreign Affair (1948) and Alfred Hitchcock in Stage Fright (1950). Her appearances in

2635-674: The Shady Grove Music Fair in Maryland in 1973 injured her left thigh, necessitating skin grafts to allow the wound to heal. She fractured her right leg in August 1974. Dietrich's show business career largely ended on 29 September 1975, when she fell on the stage and broke a thigh bone during a performance in Sydney , Australia. The following year, her husband, Rudolf Sieber, died of cancer on 24 June 1976. Dietrich's final on-camera film appearance

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2720-546: 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 established in Hollywood, Dietrich moved to the United States under contract to Paramount Pictures , the U.S. film distributor of The Blue Angel . The studio sought to market Dietrich as a German answer to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 's Swedish star Greta Garbo . Sternberg welcomed her with gifts, including

2805-563: The 1950s included films such as Fritz Lang 's Rancho Notorious , (1952) and Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957). She appeared in Orson Welles 's Touch of Evil (1958). Dietrich had a kind of platonic love for Welles, whom she considered a genius. Her last substantial film role was in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) directed by Stanley Kramer ; she also presented the narrative for

2890-591: The City Council also approved Palo Alto-based developer Essex Portfolio's proposal to construct a new mixed-use building on the western portion of the site of the theater building. The project will retain the historic building and incorporate new construction on the adjacent surface parking lot. The new development will be seven stories in height and linked to the theater building via a pedestrian paseo. The project calls for 4,700 square feet (440 m) of ground floor commercial space, as well as 200 residential units. Ground

2975-515: The Earl Carroll Theatre's board of governors. The theater was sold following the 1948 deaths of Earl Carroll and Beryl Wallace in the crash of United Airlines Flight 624 . It continued to operate but by the early 1950s, it was falling on hard times. In 1953, Las Vegas showman Frank Sennes reopened the theater as a nightclub under the name Moulin Rouge . The popular TV contest show Queen for

3060-587: The First World War. Von Losch never officially adopted the Dietrich sisters, so Dietrich's surname was never von Losch, as has sometimes been claimed. Dietrich's family nicknamed her "Lena", "Lene", or "Leni" ( IPA: [leːnɛ] ). Aged about 11, she combined her first two names to form the name "Marlene." Dietrich attended the Auguste-Viktoria Girls' School from 1907 to 1917 and graduated from

3145-570: The German magazine Der Spiegel in November 2005, Dietrich's daughter and grandson said Dietrich was politically active during these years. She kept in contact with world leaders by telephone, including Ronald Reagan , Mikhail Gorbachev , and Margaret Thatcher , running up a monthly bill of over US$ 3,000. In 1990, her appeal to save the Babelsberg Studios from closure was broadcast on BBC Radio . She had spoken on television via telephone on

3230-598: The German village of Belsen throughout the war years, running a cinema frequented by Nazi officers and officials who oversaw the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . Dietrich's mother remained in Berlin during the war, while Dietrich vouched for her sister and her sister's husband, sheltering them from possible prosecution as Nazi collaborators. However, Dietrich later omitted the existence of her sister and her sister's son from all accounts of her life, completely disowning them and claiming to be an only child. Dietrich received

3315-473: The Nazis who had lived in exile during their rule. The tour was an artistic triumph, but a financial failure. She was left emotionally drained by the hostility she encountered, and she left convinced never to visit again. East Germany , however, received her well. She also undertook a tour of Israel around the same time, which was well-received; she sang some songs in German during her concerts, including, from 1962,

3400-435: The Prosecution (1957), Orson Welles 's Touch of Evil (1958), and Stanley Kramer 's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), she spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer. Dietrich was known for her humanitarian efforts during World War II, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support and even advocating their American citizenship. For her work on improving morale on

3485-623: The Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream , and 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 her breakthrough role of Lola Lola,

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3570-574: The U.S. entered World War II, and Dietrich became one of the first public figures to help sell war bonds . She toured the U.S. from January 1942 to September 1943 (appearing before 250,000 troops on the Pacific Coast leg of her tour alone) and was reported to have sold more war bonds than any other star. During two extended tours for the USO in 1944 and 1945, she performed for Allied troops in Algeria, Italy,

3655-526: The UK, France and Heerlen in the Netherlands, then entered Germany with Generals James M. Gavin and George S. Patton . When asked why she had done this, in spite of the obvious danger of being within a few kilometers of German lines, she replied, " aus Anstand "—"out of decency". Wilder later remarked that she was at the front lines more than Dwight Eisenhower . Her revue, with Danny Thomas as her opening act for

3740-574: The Victoria-Luise-Schule (today Goethe-Gymnasium) in Berlin-Wilmersdorf in 1918. She studied the violin and became interested in theater and poetry as a teenager. A wrist injury curtailed her dreams of becoming a concert violinist, but by 1922 she had her first job playing violin in a pit orchestra for silent films at a Berlin cinema. She was fired after only four weeks. The earliest professional stage appearances by Dietrich were as

3825-414: The biggest stars of the 1930s and 1940s. The Moderne-style interior was lavishly decorated with zeon (a variation of neon) tube lighting and artwork, some of which remains extant. In 1939, Life magazine described the new building: "exhibits an ultramodern, super-streamlined interior with a patent-leather ceiling, 10,000 colored zeon lights, a 15-ft. statue, an acre of burgundy carpet." The centerpiece of

3910-636: The cowboy saloon girl, Frenchie, in the western-comedy Destry Rides Again (1939), with James Stewart . This was a significantly less well paid role than she had been accustomed to. The bawdy role revived her career and " See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have ", a song she introduced in the film, became a hit when she recorded it for Decca. She played similar types in Seven Sinners (1940) and The Spoilers (1942), both with John Wayne . Dietrich

3995-501: The crash and published a narrative describing the following sequence of events in its final report: The airplane, named Mainliner Utah , arrived in Chicago at 09:52 en route from Los Angeles to New York. After a 52-minute turnaround, the DC-6 departed for New York. The airplane climbed en route to its planned altitude of 17,000 feet. At 12:23, and at 12:27 the crew made a routine acknowledgment of

4080-592: The documentary Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler , which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1962. She cut the ceremonial ribbon to celebrate the grand opening of the Paris Theater in New York City in 1948. From the early 1950s until the mid-1970s, Dietrich worked almost exclusively as a cabaret artist, performing live in large theatres in major cities worldwide. In 1953, Dietrich

4165-709: The end of her partnership with von Sternberg was Frank Borzage 's Desire (1936) with Gary Cooper, a commercial success that gave Dietrich an opportunity to try her hand at romantic comedy . Her next project, I Loved a Soldier (1936), ended in shambles when the film was scrapped several weeks into production due to script problems, scheduling confusion and the studio's decision to fire the producer Ernst Lubitsch. Extravagant offers lured Dietrich away from Paramount to make her first color film The Garden of Allah (1936) for independent producer David O. Selznick , for which she received $ 200,000, and to Britain for Alexander Korda's production, Knight Without Armour (1937), at

4250-569: The film The Little Napoleon (1923). She met her future husband Rudolf Sieber on the set of Tragedy of Love in 1923. Dietrich and Sieber were married in a civil ceremony in Berlin on 17 May 1923. Her only child, daughter Maria Elisabeth Sieber , was born on 13 December 1924. Dietrich continued to work on stage and in film both in Berlin and Vienna throughout the 1920s. On stage, she had roles of varying importance in Frank Wedekind 's Pandora's Box , William Shakespeare 's The Taming of

4335-454: The first part of her show in one of her body-hugging dresses and a swansdown coat, and change to top hat and tails for the second half of the performance. This allowed her to sing songs usually associated with male singers, like " One for My Baby " and " I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face ". "She ... transcends her material," according to Peter Bogdanovich . "Whether it's a flighty old tune like ' I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby ' ...

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4420-452: The first tour, included songs from her films, performances on her musical saw (a skill taught to her by Igo Sym that she had originally acquired for stage appearances in Berlin in the 1920s) and a " mindreading " act that her friend Orson Welles had taught her for his Mercury Wonder Show . Dietrich would inform the audience that she could read minds and ask them to concentrate on whatever came into their minds. Then she would walk over to

4505-524: The foyer was the Goddess of Light, a 15-foot-tall aluminum-covered plaster statue (extant) designed by Martin Deutsch. With hands lifted to the ceiling, the statue held a fifty-foot zeon tube that wound its way to the ceiling. The columns in the lobby bar (extant) were filled with zeon lamps and zeon stalactites hung from the ceiling in the cabaret. A large painting of Carroll painted by the artist Strandanees hung near

4590-577: The front lines during the war, she received several honors from the United States, France, Belgium, and Israel. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female screen legend of classic Hollywood cinema . She was born Marie Magdalene Dietrich on 27 December 1901 at Leberstraße 65 in the neighborhood of Rote Insel in Schöneberg , now a district of Berlin . Her mother, Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josefine ( née Felsing),

4675-405: The gas to enter into the cockpit. These concentrations reduced the pilots to a state of confused consciousness probably resulting in loss of consciousness. An emergency descent was initiated until it described a shallow left turn, heading towards constantly rising terrain. Five miles east of Shamokin , the airplane, flying only 200 feet above the ground, entered a right climbing turn. As it passed to

4760-432: The impact of light passed through a veil or slatted window blinds, combined with the scrupulous attention to set design and costumes makes the films they made together among cinema's most visually stylish. Critics still vigorously debate how much of the credit belonged to von Sternberg and how much to Dietrich, but most would agree that neither consistently reached such heights again after Paramount fired von Sternberg and

4845-445: The main entrance. Later achieving various degrees of fame in films and on television, Jean Spangler , Mara Corday , Yvonne De Carlo , Phyllis Coates , Maila Nurmi , Gloria Pall , Tyra Vaughn , and Mamie Van Doren were some of the showgirls who performed there. The facility was a popular night spot for many of Hollywood's most glamorous stars and powerful film industry moguls such as Darryl Zanuck and Walter Wanger , who sat on

4930-503: The name The Chevy Chase Theater . The talk show was cancelled after five weeks; the theater reverted to its previous name soon after. In the mid-1990s, Nickelodeon decided to move production of some live-action series to the West Coast from Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida at Universal Studios . After scouting soundstages for a year, the network's headlining mover All That spent

5015-407: The north of Mt. Carmel, the climbing turning attitude increased sharply. The airplane then crashed in a power line clearing on wooded hillside at an elevation of 1,649 feet. The airplane struck a 66,000-volt transformer, severed power lines, and burst into flames. Investigation revealed that the fire warning in the cargo compartment had been false. — CAB File No. 1-0075-48 The CAB concluded with

5100-675: The occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall the previous year. Also in spring 1990, she spoke on French forces radio station addressing her fellow Berliners in Germany about her then most recent conversation with French president Mitterrand regarding his promise to her that Berlin would be the capital city of a united Germany later on—at that point in time, a quite appealing but non-official French presidential statement. On 6 May 1992, Dietrich died of kidney failure at her flat in Paris at age 90. Her funeral

5185-409: The phenomenon of Dietrich in concert. He wrote in 1964: "What she does is neither difficult nor diverting, but the fact that she does it at all fills the onlookers with wonder ... It takes two to make a conjuring trick: the illusionist's sleight of hand and the stooge's desire to be deceived. To these necessary elements (her own technical competence and her audience's sentimentality) Marlene Dietrich adds

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5270-411: The plane. Ira F. Roadarmel of Mount Carmel, one of the first persons on the scene, said, "everything was scattered. The largest piece of the plane left was an engine. The rest of the plane was in small parts — so small they could be carried." George Minnich, an employee of Midvalley Colliery No. 2, which the plane missed by only 100 yards in its descent, said that he saw the plane bank. "Suddenly, there

5355-454: The pressure relief valves. The part-incapacitated crew began an emergency descent and hit a high-voltage power line. Flight 624 from San Diego had just completed a routine initial descent as part of its approach into the New York area, when the forward cargo hold fire indicator light illuminated, leading the flight crew to believe a fire was in that cargo hold. Although this later turned out to be

5440-402: The property and converted it into a state-of-the-art television theater that for nine years was the taping site of Star Search . The Pick-Vanoff Company also owned Sunset-Gower Studios, formerly the home of Columbia Pictures. For many years, it was used for the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon . In the fall of 1993, the theater was the venue for Fox Network 's The Chevy Chase Show under

5525-407: The released CO 2 gas seeped back into the cockpit from the front cargo hold and apparently partially incapacitated the flight crew. The crew then put the aircraft into an emergency descent, and as it descended lower, it hit a high-voltage power line, bursting into flames, then smashing through the trees of a wooded hillside. Ed Darlington of radio station WCNR at nearby Bloomsburg said, "there

5610-735: The result. The show was broadcast in the UK on the BBC and in the U.S. on CBS in January 1973. Dietrich continued with a busy performance schedule until September 1975. When Clive Hirschhorn asked her why she continued to perform, she said, "Do you think this is glamorous? That this is a great life, and that I do it for my health? Well, it isn't. It's hard work. And who would work if they didn't have to?" In her 60s and 70s, Dietrich's health declined: she survived cervical cancer in 1965 and suffered from poor circulation in her legs. Dietrich became increasingly dependent on painkillers and alcohol. A stage fall at

5695-457: The romantic drama Song of Songs (1933), playing a naïve German peasant, under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian . Dietrich and Sternberg's last two films, The Scarlet Empress (1934) with John Davis Lodge and The Devil Is a Woman (1935)—the most stylized of their collaborations—were their lowest-grossing films. Dietrich later remarked that she was at her most beautiful in The Devil Is

5780-402: The two ceased working together. The collaboration of one actress and director creating seven films is still unmatched in motion pictures, with the possible exception of Katharine Hepburn and George Cukor , who made ten films together over a much longer period but which were not created for Hepburn the way the last six von Sternberg/Dietrich collaborations were. Dietrich's first film after

5865-633: The venue was renamed the Aquarius Theater and rededicated as the home of a long-running Los Angeles production of the Broadway musical Hair . It was accordingly redecorated in the psychedelic art style by the London-based Dutch design collective The Fool , which also created iconic late-1960s graphics for the Beatles , Cream with Eric Clapton , Procol Harum and other patrons. On Mondays, when

5950-501: Was a contralto —and allowed her to perform her songs to maximum dramatic effect; together, they recorded four albums and several singles between 1957 and 1964. In a TV interview in 1971, she credited Bacharach with giving her the "inspiration" to perform during those years. Bacharach then felt he needed to devote his time fully to songwriting. But she had also come to rely on him in order to perform, and wrote about his leaving in her memoir: From that fateful day on, I have worked like

6035-505: Was a requiem mass conducted at the Roman Catholic church of La Madeleine in Paris on 14 May 1992. Dietrich's funeral service was attended by approximately 1,500 mourners in the church itself—including ambassadors from Germany, Russia, the US, the UK, and other countries—with thousands more outside. Her closed coffin, draped in the French flag, rested beneath the altar and was adorned with

6120-638: Was a German-born American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly 7 decades. In 1920s Berlin , Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films . Her performance as Lola Lola in Josef von Sternberg 's The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures . She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: Morocco (1930) (her only Academy Award nomination), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus (both 1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), The Devil Is

6205-640: Was a brief appearance in Just a Gigolo (1978), starring David Bowie and directed by David Hemmings , in which she sang the title song. Dietrich withdrew to her apartment at 12 Avenue Montaigne in Paris . She spent the final 13 years of her life mostly bedridden, allowing only a select few—including family and employees—to enter the apartment. During this time, she was a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller. Her autobiography Nehmt nur mein Leben ( Take Just My Life ),

6290-592: Was a horrible crash," he said. "All you could see was a mass of flames. It sounded as though the end of the world was coming." The plane's logbook, found near the scene of the crash in a thickly wooded area, identified the plane's pilot as Captain George Warner. Among the passengers were Broadway theatre impresario Earl Carroll and his girlfriend, actress Beryl Wallace , plus Henry L. Jackson , men's fashion editor of Collier's Weekly and co-founder of Esquire . The Civil Aeronautics Board investigated

6375-431: Was a scheduled passenger flight from San Diego, California to New York City. The four-engined, propeller-driven airplane crashed at 1:41 pm Eastern Daylight Time on June 17, 1948, outside of Aristes, Pennsylvania , resulting in the deaths of all four crew members and 39 passengers on board. The crew had been responding to a false signal of a fire in the front cargo hold by releasing CO 2 , apparently without opening

6460-633: Was approached by Nazi Party officials and offered lucrative contracts, should she agree to return to be a foremost film star in Nazi Germany . She refused their offers and applied for U.S. citizenship in 1937. She returned to Paramount to make Angel (1937), another romantic comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch ; the film was poorly received, leading Paramount to buy out the remainder of Dietrich's contract. Dietrich, with encouragement from Josef von Sternberg , accepted producer Joe Pasternak 's offer to play against type in her first film in two years: that of

6545-818: Was broken on October 17, 2017. On September 25, 2019, Thaddeus Hunter Smith, a former owner of the nearby Fonda Theatre , and his business partner Brian Levian announced that they had signed a ten-year lease "with the intention of not only restoring the building’s original facilities, but also transforming the site into an entertainment complex, with spaces for concerts, stage shows, movie premieres, and other specialized events," The Architect's Newspaper reported. 34°05′52″N 118°19′31″W  /  34.097851°N 118.325321°W  / 34.097851; -118.325321 Marlene Dietrich Marie Magdalene " Marlene " Dietrich ( / m ɑːr ˈ l eɪ n ə ˈ d iː t r ɪ x / , German: [maʁˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç] ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992)

6630-476: Was completely removed during major decorative overhauling in 1968. A re-creation made from photos is today on display at Universal CityWalk , at Universal City , as part of the collection of historic neon signs from the Museum of Neon Art . Another prominent exterior feature was the "Wall of Fame", on which were mounted more than a hundred individual concrete blocks autographed by Hollywood celebrities, including some of

6715-448: Was designed in the Moderne style by architect Gordon Kaufmann . The interior design is attributed to both Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky and Frank Don Riha (1899–1957). As he had done at his New York theater , Carroll emblazoned over the entrance the words "Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world". The theater-restaurant accommodated 1,200 diners and offered shows on

6800-574: Was from an affluent Berlin family who owned a jewelry and clock-making firm. Her father, Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, was a police lieutenant. Dietrich had one sibling, Elisabeth (5 February 1900 – 8 May 1973). Dietrich's father was born on 26 August 1867 and died in August 1908. His best friend, Eduard von Losch, an aristocratic first lieutenant in the Grenadiers , courted Wilhelmina and married her in 1914, but he died in July 1916 from injuries sustained during

6885-419: Was known to have strong political convictions and the mind to speak them. In the late 1930s, Dietrich created a fund with Billy Wilder and several other exiles to help Jews and dissidents escape from Germany. In 1937, her entire salary for Knight Without Armor ($ 450,000) was put into escrow to help the refugees. In 1939, she became an American citizen and renounced her German citizenship. In December 1941,

6970-578: Was made aware that her recordings would be for OSS use, recorded a number of songs in German for the project, including " Lili Marleen ", a favorite of soldiers on both sides of the conflict. Major General William J. Donovan , head of the OSS, wrote to Dietrich, "I am personally deeply grateful for your generosity in making these recordings for us." At the war's end in Europe, Dietrich reunited with her sister Elisabeth and her sister's husband and son. They had resided in

7055-489: Was no sign of life and apparently everyone was killed." The scene of the wreck was in a sparsely wooded area about five miles from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania , a small town 135 miles from Philadelphia, where delegates are gathering for the Republican National Convention. News of the crash brought excited whispering from the delegates. No one knew for certain whether any high-ranking Republican officials were on

7140-519: Was offered $ 30,000 per week to appear live at the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. The show was short, consisting only of a few songs associated with her. Her daringly sheer "nude dress"—a heavily beaded evening gown of silk soufflé, which gave the illusion of transparency—designed by Jean Louis , attracted a lot of publicity. This engagement was so successful that she was signed to appear at

7225-400: Was published in 1979. In 1982, Dietrich agreed to participate in a documentary film about her life, Marlene (1984), but refused to be filmed. The film's director is her former co-star from Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Maximilian Schell , and even with that familiarity, he was still only allowed to record her voice. Schell used his interviews with her as the basis for the film, set to

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