Marlene Dietrich, Hans Albers and Emil Jannings in Der blaue Engel (1930), 8,

German postcard by Film und Fotografie, no. A 85. Photo: Sammlung Eickemeyer, Berlin. Emil Jannings, Hans Albers and Marlene Dietrich in Der blaue Engel/The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930).

Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) is regarded as the first German actress to become successful in Hollywood. Throughout her long career, she constantly re-invented herself, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl, and film actress in 1920s Berlin, she became a Hollywood movie star in the 1930s, a World War II frontline entertainer, and finally an international stage show performer from the 1950s to the 1970s, eventually becoming one of the entertainment icons of the 20th century.

Hans Albers (1891–1960) was a superstar of German cinema between 1930 and 1945. He already had a rich career in silent film, often playing the suave crook, as in the crime and adventure films with Luciano Albertini. He was also one of the most popular German singers of the twentieth century. His song Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins (On the Reeperbahn at half past midnight) is the unofficial anthem of Hamburg’s neighbourhood of St. Pauli, famous for its brothels, music and nightclubs.

If Weimar cinema had one film star, then it was Emil Jannings (1884-1950) for sure. He was a great actor in the silent era and won the first Oscar for Best Actor. Priceless are his performances as Louis XV in Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry (1919), as the doorman in Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924), the jealous acrobat in Dupont's Variety (1925), and the professor in Von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930). Too bad that during his later years, he worked as a board member for the Ufa propaganda machine during the Third Reich.

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