“If we had to invent someone to be the ideal woman … we would have to invent Marlene Dietrich.” Billy Wilder
Died on this day 30 years ago: incomparably sultry, throaty-voiced and world-weary German actress, chanteuse and international glamourpuss Marlene Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) aged 90. I moved to London on 2 May 1992 - so the thirtieth anniversary of thathistoric occasion has been and gone too. (I remember on my first week in London passing a newsstand and seeing Dietrich’s face plastered across the front cover of every newspaper and instantly knowing: that must mean she’s died!). Pictured: the diva photographed by Milton H Greene in 1952. Remember! The Lobotomy Room film club is commemorating Dietrich on 19 May with a screening of her 1933 film The Song of Songs! Attendance is mandatory! Details here.