Tour and Film
Tour and Screening: Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image

Organized by Friends of the Goethe-Institut

Thu, 11/30/2017
National Portrait Gallery

Friends of the Goethe-Institut has organized a tour of the exhibition Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image led by the show’s curator, Kate Lemay, Historian at the National Portrait Gallery, and followed by an opportunity to see the film The Blue Angel.
 
Marie Magdalene “Marlene” Dietrich (1901-1992) was a German-American film icon and stage performer who publicly and unapologetically showcased her androgynous identity while embracing bisexuality. The approximately 50 portraits in the show Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image (on display through April 15, 2018) range from images of her upper-middle class upbringing and family and her days as a garconne in the 1920s Berlin cabaret scene to portraits showing her rise to fame in Hollywood under the direction of Josef von Sternberg and her time volunteering as a USO performer during World War II.
 
Marlene Dietrich brought androgyny to the silver screen through her roles in such movies as Morocco (1930) and Seven Sinners (1940). The biggest Hollywood star at a time when “talkies” were still new, Dietrich captured men’s hearts and women’s admiration on screen and off. At 6 pm we will join the Embassy of Germany and the National Portrait Gallery for a reception and screening of The Blue Angel. The movie is one of the first “talkie” movies that brought Dietrich international fame. Dietrich plays Lola, a seductress with whom a high school teacher besots her and falls in love.
 
Meet in the Marlene Dietrich gallery on the second floor, north side (G Street Lobby).

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