Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and provided her a contract with Paramount Pictures in the US. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalised on her glamour and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a US citizen in 1937, and throughout World War II she was a high-profile frontline entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a successful show performer.
In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of all time.
A stunning film made famous by Marlene Dietrich but carried largely by the fantastic performance of Emil Jennings. The stodgy（四角四面） professor gives up everything to be with his blue angel and pays the ultimate price for it. This is a story of the road to ruin as seen through a travelling cabaret.Dietrich is really not too impressive (she is even a bit pudgy（丸々とした） here until she sings. When she arches her back, raises her leg, and languidly croons(物憂げにささやくように優しく歌う) her little song about being helpless to resist lovers, she becomes an international star. She is in total command of the camera and herself(指揮をとる）. It is a snapshot of a self-satisfied whore（娼婦）, indifferent to what the world thinks or does around her. From a well-dressed, punctual and rigidly authoritarian teacher, he becomes late, poorly dressed, embarassing to himself and others, and in sore need of a shave. When he realizes how he has lost himself through his love of Lola Lola, it is too late.
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