"Angel (1937 film) Angel is a 1937 American comedy-drama film made by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Samson Raphaelson and Frederick Lonsdale, adapted by Guy Bolton and Russell Medcraft from the play ""Angyal"" by Melchior Lengyel. The music score was by Frederick Hollander, Werner R. Heymann and John Leipold with additional music by Gioacchino Rossini from ""The Barber of Seville"" . The cinematography was by Charles Lang and the costume design by Travis Banton. The film stars Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall and Melvyn Douglas with Edward Everett Horton, Laura Hope Crews"
"Marlene Dietrich Marie Magdalene ""Marlene"" Dietrich (, ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship. Throughout her long career, which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s, she maintained popularity by continually reinventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in ""The Blue Angel"" (1930) brought her international fame and a contract with Paramount Pictures. Dietrich starred in Hollywood films such as ""Morocco"" (1930), ""Shanghai Express"" (1932), and ""Desire"" (1936). She successfully traded on her glamorous persona"
"Olympia in Paris was also broadcast. Marlene Dietrich Marie Magdalene ""Marlene"" Dietrich (, ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship. Throughout her long career, which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s, she maintained popularity by continually reinventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in ""The Blue Angel"" (1930) brought her international fame and a contract with Paramount Pictures. Dietrich starred in Hollywood films such as ""Morocco"" (1930), ""Shanghai Express"" (1932), and ""Desire"" (1936). She"
"Crawford, Mae West, Katharine Hepburn, Norma Shearer, Dolores del Río and Fred Astaire among others. While she was in London, officials of the Nazi Party approached Dietrich and offered her lucrative contracts, should she agree to return to Germany as a foremost film star in the Third Reich. She refused their offers and applied for US 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. In 1939, with encouragement from Josef von Sternberg, she accepted producer"
"film appearance was as herself in the 1984 documentary, ""Marlene"". In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich as the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. </div style=""font-size: 95%""> </div style=""font-size: 95%""> </div style=""font-size: 95%""> Complete list of television appearances (excluding news footage): Marlene Dietrich filmography Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress. In the 1920s, she acted on the Berlin stage and in silent films, making her film debut in 1922. She was propelled to international fame by director Josef von Sternberg, who cast her as Lola-Lola in ""The Blue Angel"" (1930). The film's commercial success brought her a"
"Marlene Dietrich filmography Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress. In the 1920s, she acted on the Berlin stage and in silent films, making her film debut in 1922. She was propelled to international fame by director Josef von Sternberg, who cast her as Lola-Lola in ""The Blue Angel"" (1930). The film's commercial success brought her a contract with Paramount Pictures in the United States. Paramount sought to market Dietrich as a German answer to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Swedish sensation, Greta Garbo. Her first American film, ""Morocco"" (1930), directed by Sternberg, earned Dietrich her only Oscar nomination. She would appear in several other"
"the first version with a French-speaking cast (1930), then a second version with a German-speaking cast (1931). An English version was planned but never materialized. The Nazis destroyed the original negative print of the German version in 1933, and it was reconstructed after the War ended. ""The Blue Angel"" (1930), directed by Josef von Sternberg with the leads played by Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings, was filmed simultaneously in English and German (a different supporting cast was used for each version). Although it was based on a 1905 story written by Heinrich Mann, the film is often seen as topical"
"films. She was cast after impressing the director, Georg Jacoby, during a meeting arranged for them. Dietrich played gradually more substantial roles during the rest of the decade until her breakthrough film ""The Blue Angel"" (1930). The film was made by the European Film Alliance (EFA), a failed attempt by the American firm Paramount to establish a production base in the lucrative German market. The EFA was wound up shortly after the film's completion, which delayed its release. It finally premièred on 29 November 1923 at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. ""The Little Napoleon"" is one of many works from 1923"
"exams at the Munich Academy of Music in 1924. In 1925 he was employed as ""Kapellmeister"" at the Deutsches Theater München, and conducted theatre ensembles, first in Munich and then in Berlin, where he worked with Max Reinhardt. In 1930 he met with Friedrich Hollaender, whom he assisted arranging the musical score of Josef von Sternberg's film ""The Blue Angel"" starring Marlene Dietrich. During the 1930s and 40s he became one of the most sought-after German musical film composers; his credits run to some 150 movies. Several songs, performed by stars like Zarah Leander or Marika Rökk, are popular and"
"Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg (born Jonas Sternberg, 29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios. He is best known for his film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s, including the highly regarded Paramount/UFA production, ""The Blue Angel"" (1930). Sternberg's finest works are noteworthy for their striking pictorial compositions, dense décor, chiaroscuro illumination and relentless camera motion, endowing the scenes with emotional intensity. He is also credited with initiating the"
"in Berlin, was produced in a German, English, French, Hungarian as well as a silent version. The film also created the Operetta film genre. The ""Erich-Pommer-Produktion der Ufa"" turned out several international box office hits in the following years, most notably Josef von Sternberg's ""The Blue Angel"" (1930), starring Marlene Dietrich. Among his productions was a series of popular musical comedies such as ""Die Drei von der Tankstelle"" and ""Der Kongreß tanzt"" / ""Congress Dances"" and the science fiction spectacle ""F.P.1"", which was shot in three language versions. After the Nazi Party came to power early in 1933, UFA rescinded"
"Filling Station"" are produced by the UFA. In 1930, the company enjoyed worldwide success with the film ""The Blue Angel"", starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings, directed by Joseph von Sternberg. UFA experienced a new commercial boom in the Nazi era, not least due to the government's protectionist measures, which freed the company from bothersome domestic and foreign competition, sometimes even incorporating their production facilities and staff (see also: National Socialist Film Policy). On top of that, by occupying almost all of Europe, the Nazi regime also provided UFA with new sales markets, as well as placing distribution outlets in"
"silent movie, it was filmed once again in a much-altered version (with dialogue) in widescreen and Technicolor in 1959. Karl Vollmöller Karl Gustav Vollmöller (or Vollmoeller; 7 May 1878 – 18 October 1948) was a German philologist, archaeologist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and aircraft designer. He is most famous for the elaborate religious spectacle-pantomime ""The Miracle"" and the screenplay for the celebrated 1930 film ""The Blue Angel"" (""Der blaue Engel""), which made a star of Marlene Dietrich. Vollmöller was born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, the son of merchant Robert Vollmöller (1849–1911), who founded his own textile company (""Vollmoeller AG"") in 1881 and,"
"Karl Vollmöller Karl Gustav Vollmöller (or Vollmoeller; 7 May 1878 – 18 October 1948) was a German philologist, archaeologist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and aircraft designer. He is most famous for the elaborate religious spectacle-pantomime ""The Miracle"" and the screenplay for the celebrated 1930 film ""The Blue Angel"" (""Der blaue Engel""), which made a star of Marlene Dietrich. Vollmöller was born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, the son of merchant Robert Vollmöller (1849–1911), who founded his own textile company (""Vollmoeller AG"") in 1881 and, together with his wife Emilie, née Behr (1852–1894), became known as a pioneer of social market economy. His uncle"
"Farrah Fawcett Farrah Leni Fawcett (; originally spelled Ferrah; February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009) was an American actress, model, and artist. A four-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she posed for her iconic red swimsuit poster – which became the best selling pin-up poster in history – and starred as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series ""Charlie's Angels"" (1976–1977). In 1996, she was ranked No. 26 on ""TV Guide"" ""50 Greatest TV stars of All-Time"". In 1969, Fawcett began her career when"
"Holl. Emil Jannings Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a German actor, popular in 1920s film in Hollywood. He was the first Oscar recipient, honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 1929 ceremony. To date, he is still the only German to have won the Best Actor Oscar. Jannings is best known for his collaborations with F. W. Murnau and Josef von Sternberg, including 1930's ""The Blue Angel"", with Marlene Dietrich. ""Der blaue Engel"" was meant as a vehicle for Jannings to score a place for himself in"
"Trude Berliner Trude Berliner (28 February 1903 – 26 February 1977) was a German actress. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Berliner was born Gertrude Berliner in Berlin, Germany. She became a famous cabaret performer in Berlin. In 1925, she appeared in her first movie, a silent film called ""Krieg im Frieden"". Berliner would wait four years before her second movie, but her film career would then take off. In 1929, she appeared in ""Dich hab ich geliebt"", which would become the first"
"Greta Thyssen Greta Thyssen (born Grethe Karen Thygesen; 30 March 1927 – 6 January 2018) was a Danish film actress and former model, long-resident in the United States. Born in Hareskovby, Denmark, she appeared in films and television series between 1956 and 1967. Thyssen arrived in the United States after winning the Miss Denmark crown in 1952. She attempted to follow in the footsteps of the reigning blonde sex symbols Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield by forging a movie career. She was Monroe's double in ""Bus Stop"", and appeared in ""Accused of Murder"", ""Terror Is a Man"", ""Three Blondes in"
"Emil Jannings Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a German actor, popular in 1920s film in Hollywood. He was the first Oscar recipient, honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 1929 ceremony. To date, he is still the only German to have won the Best Actor Oscar. Jannings is best known for his collaborations with F. W. Murnau and Josef von Sternberg, including 1930's ""The Blue Angel"", with Marlene Dietrich. ""Der blaue Engel"" was meant as a vehicle for Jannings to score a place for himself in the"
"Greta Meyer Greta Meyer (August 7, 1883 – October 8, 1965) was a German actress in motion pictures beginning in the silent film era. Born in 1883, Meyer belonged to the most famous theatrical family in Germany, comparable to the Barrymore family in America. Her early film efforts came in films like ""De jantjes"" (1922) and ""Die Königsloge"" (1929). Meyer came to America in 1923 from her native Germany aboard a German steamship. She became a U.S. citizen. Meyer appeared in many Hollywood movies between 1933 and 1942, including ""The Great Waltz"" (1938) and ""Bitter Sweet"" (1940). In 1963 Meyer"
"reads ""Tell me where the flowers are"" 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992 Actress and Singer She was one of the few German actresses that attained international significance. Despite tempting offers by the Nazi regime, she emigrated to the USA and became an American citizen. In 2002, the city of Berlin posthumously made her an honorary citizen. ""I am, thank God, a Berliner."" The U.S. Government awarded Dietrich the Medal of Freedom for her war work. Dietrich has been quoted as saying this was the honor of which she was most proud in her life. They also awarded her"
"Jessica Alba Jessica Marie Alba (; born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and businesswoman. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in ""Camp Nowhere"" and ""The Secret World of Alex Mack"" (1994), but rose to prominence at 19, as the lead actress of the television series ""Dark Angel"" (2000–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Her big screen breakthrough came in ""Honey"" (2003). She soon established herself as a Hollywood actress, and has starred in numerous box office hits throughout her career, including ""Fantastic Four"" (2005), """" (2007), ""Good Luck Chuck"" (2007), ""The"
"Victoria Horne Victoria Horne (November 1, 1911 – October 10, 2003) was an American character actress, appearing in 49 films (uncredited in 25 of these) during the 1940s and 1950s. Horne was born on November 1, 1911, in New York City, New York, to Ignatz Hornstein (who emigrated from Braila, Romania) and Mary Louise Schoenwetter Hornstein. She was the second of four children. The family named was changed to ""Horne"" when she was a child. She was a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. The films in which she appeared included ""Blue Skies"", ""The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"","
"Angeles on 6 September 1981, the day after her 64th birthday. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California. Maria Palmer Maria Palmer (born Maria Pichler, 5 September 1917 – 6 September 1981) was an Austrian-born American actress. Palmer was born and raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Vienna, Austria) on 5 September 1917. She first appeared on stage as a child actor, in various Max Reinhardt productions. She trained as a dancer, and was a member of the Bodenwieser Ensemble. She later studied drama and voice at the Vienna Conservatory. In 1938, a year before the outbreak"
"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"
"Gila von Weitershausen Baroness Gila von Weitershausen (born ) is a German actress. Born in Trebnitz (today Trzebnica), Lower Silesia, Germany (today Poland) into an aristocratic family, she has three brothers and two sisters and is the great-granddaughter of Georg Graf von Hertling. Gila von Weitershausen became popular in the late 1960s when she appeared in German comedy films, for example alongside Uschi Glas. One of the films from that period about Swinging Sixties Bavaria, """", gave her the nickname ""Engelchen"" (""Little Angel""), which was used by the tabloid press for decades. In one of her best-known roles, she played"
"had departed the country in February, shortly after the film was completed and the internecine conflict emerged. Hugenberg ultimately relented on the grounds of financial expediency, still convinced the Sternberg had concealed within ""The Blue Angel"" ""a parody of the German bourgeoisie."" The film proved to be ""an instant international success."" Dietrich, at Sternberg's insistence, was brought to Hollywood under contract to Paramount, where they would film and release the movie Morocco in 1930 ""before"" ""The Blue Angel"" would appear in American theatres in 1931. ""The Blue Angel"", ostensibly a story of the downfall of a respectable middle-age academic at"
"circumstances of her death remain unknown. Born in Munich, Germany, Müller entered films in the late 1920s in Berlin and quickly became popular. A blue-eyed blonde, she was considered to be one of the great beauties of her day and, along with Marlene Dietrich, was seen to embody fashionable Berlin society. She starred in more than twenty German films, including ""Viktor und Viktoria"" (1933), one of her biggest successes, which was remade decades later as ""Victor Victoria"" with Julie Andrews. After making ""Sunshine Susie"" (1932) in England, she returned to Germany and was delayed by anti-German French officials for a"
"agreed to bring the German actress to Hollywood under a two-picture contract, in February 1930. When Dietrich arrived in the United States to begin filming ""Morocco"" ""[she] was subjected to the full power of Paramount's public relations machine"" launching her into ""international stardom"" ""before"" American moviegoers had seen her as Lola Lola in ""The Blue Angel"", which appeared in U.S. theatres in 1931. Premiering in New York City on December 6, 1930, ""Morocco""s success at the box-office was ""immediate and impressive"". Accolades for the film were issued by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, film critic Robert E. Sherwood and filmmaker Charles"
"Agnes Bruckner Agnes Bruckner (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress and former model. She began acting on television in the late 1990s and has since appeared in several films, including ""The Woods"", ""Blue Car"", ""Murder by Numbers"", ""Blood and Chocolate"", and ""The Anna Nicole Story"". Bruckner was born in Hollywood, California, to a Hungarian father and a Russian mother who have since divorced; her paternal grandfather was German. Her parents met in Hungary and immigrated to the U.S. in 1984 through a refugee camp in Italy. She has two sisters and a brother. Bruckner speaks some Russian and"
"Annette Carell Annette Karen Carell (born Anneliese Erlanger; 7 January 1926 – 20 October 1967) was a German-born American actress who lived in the United States and Britain at various stages of her career. She appeared in American, British and German television series and films, including ""Beyond the Curtain"", ""No Hiding Place"", ""The Prisoner"", ""The Avengers"", ""Out of the Unknown"", ""Our Mother's House"", ""Z-Cars"" and others. Born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, she left Germany as a teenager for England, and then emigrated in 1942 to the United States, where she acquired American citizenship on 12 February 1944 in Boston, Massachusetts. In"
"of the New-York Overseas Corp.), to the United States and did not transplant her film career. She died in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Susi Lanner Susi Lanner (August 27, 1911 – March 16, 2006) was an Austrian film actress who played major roles in German productions from 1932 to 1937. Born Mechthilde Reif in Vienna, after schooling in drama, dance, and singing, Lanner appeared as a singer and dancer in operettas and revues in her native Vienna. She made her film debut in 1932 opposite Brigitte Helm and Oskar Karlweis in the comedy ""Three on a Honeymoon"". Then she made"
"Susan Engel Susan Engel (born 25 March 1935 in Vienna, Austria) is a British actress. Engel's work in theatre includes: ""Angels in America"" (1992), ""Richard III"", ""King Lear"" (1990), ""The Good Person of Sezuan"", ""Watch on the Rhine"" (1980), ""Spring Awakening"", ""The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other"" and ""Her Naked Skin"" (2008) at the National Theatre, London; ""Women Beware Women"" (2006), ""Luminosity"" (2001), ""Bad Weather"", ""The Dybbuk"", ""King John"" (1988), ""Cousin Vladimir"" (1978), ""The Tempest"", ""The Comedy of Errors"" (1962), ""Julius Caesar"" (1963), ""Henry VI, Part 2"" and ""The Wars of The Roses"" (1963) for the RSC; ""Spinning"