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H A P P Y    B I R T H D A Y,    M A R L E N E    D I E T R I C H ! ♥ 27th December 1901 – 6th May 1992

‘There is a lack of dignity to film stardom.’ – Marlene Dietrich 

She [Marlene] is brave, beautiful, loyal, kind and generous. She is never boring and is as lovely looking in the morning in a G.I. shirt, pants and combat boots as she is at night or on the screen. She has an honesty and a comic and tragic sense of life that never let her be truly happy unless she loves… If she had nothing more than her voice she could break your heart with it. But she has that beautiful body and the timeless loveliness of her face. It makes no difference how she breaks your heart if she is there to mend it. – Ernest Hemingway