Marlene Dietrich Shadows and Light (1996)

Following the life of Marlene Dietrich through her films including home movies and interviews with family friends coworkers acquaintances and presumed lovers From the cabaret scene in 1920s Berlin silent films in Germany her triumph in The Blue Angel in 1930 for which her screen test is included in this film to Hollywood with Josef von Sternberg The highest paid female star of her time the luster dimmed by 1935 and in the later part of the decade she might be the most valuable actress in the world but also the most unemployable But with Destry Rides Again Marlene became a sex symbol who could play comedy and the most remarkable comeback in Hollywood was a reality She was one of the most active entertainers of the allied troops during WW II After the war movies were infrequent but a new career on the stage continued for another 20 years until she retired into seclusion for the last decade of her life