Friday 28 May 2021

Special Guest Blogger: Marlene Dietrich

Being German in America during World War 2 was tough enough and i could really have done without Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels announcing they were huge fans of mine and my sister Elizabeth running a Nazi canteen and cinema in Bergen-Belsen during WWII.
No matter what i did, because of my rejection of Hitler and the Nazis, i was regarded as a traitor in Germany and the Americans were suspicious of me even after i applied for American citizenship, recording a number of anti-Nazi albums and help to sell war bonds, i even sang for the American troops on the front lines and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom but they never really got over me being liked by Hitler.
I was planning to be a violinist but got called up for an audition for The Blue Angel and as i wasn't bothered and didn't think i would get it anyway, i was very nonchalant and approached it as though i was bored and simply going through the motions. As it turned out, luckily for me, that was exactly what the Producer was looking for in the character, and i was hired!
One of the coolest things about being famous is that you get access to other famous people who are just as interesting and as randy as you. You meet up at illuminati picnics planning meetings for secret cities where you'll all move after we have tanked the economy but most importantly, you make odd friendships that normal people generations later would never have expected so between films i had affairs with Ernest Hemingway, Lupe VĂ©le, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., James Stewart, Yul Brynner, Errol Flynn, George Bernard Shaw, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra Gary Cooper and John F Kennedy but considering that JFK was using Hollywood as his own private brothel, who didn't have a fling with him?
Kidney failure killed me in the end and i was buried in Berlin at a beautiful funeral attended by every world leader of the important nations but i did find the line 'She lived like a soldier and would like to be buried like a soldier' as a bit confusing unless i am very much misled about what goes on inside the barracks.

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