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Speaker 2: Hello delicious friends, and welcome to Who I Want Now,

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Speaker 2: the history podcast That's not your History class with me,

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Speaker 2: your host Katie Charlewood, History Harlot and reader all books.

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Speaker 2: If you are new here, this is not my usual voice.

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Speaker 2: This is much sexier than my usual voice. I am

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Speaker 2: sick because of course I am, because I can't stay

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Speaker 2: healthy for more than five minutes. But fuck it, it's fine.

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Speaker 3: Here we are.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: You may have noticed that I speak with language more

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Speaker 2: colorful than a kaleidoscope filled with the word fuck. But

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Speaker 2: here we are welcome. If you don't like it, though,

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Speaker 2: you might want to stage left. Good now that we've

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Speaker 2: separated the week from the chaff, how are you you're

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Speaker 2: doing well? Yeah, this has been it's been a fun week.

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Speaker 2: It's been a busy week trying to get sort of

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Speaker 2: more of the tour dates locked in the Glassgow show.

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Speaker 2: Like over half the tickets are gone now, so if

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Speaker 2: you want to come see me in Glasgow, you're good.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna want to get those tickets in sooner rather

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Speaker 2: than later. It's it's gonna be a good one. Actually,

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited for the Glassgow Show. I have the

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Speaker 2: perfect person to talk about and my outfit is amazin.

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Speaker 2: Although if you want to contribute to my performance outfits,

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Speaker 2: you can always donate to my Smutty Little Dress Fund,

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Speaker 2: which is my PayPal which I've renamed the Smutty Little

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Speaker 2: Dress Fund for my own amusement. Oh man, But yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be It's gonna be a good night.

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Speaker 3: I'm very excited for the Glasgow Show.

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Speaker 2: All the events are going to be going up on

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Speaker 2: the website, so they're going to be on there, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be good. I'm excited. Are you excited?

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Speaker 3: I'm excited. We should all be excited.

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Speaker 2: But oh, it has been. It has been a busy

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Speaker 2: week because I'm trying to like contact venues and arrange

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Speaker 2: gigs and stuff. But I don't understand an event space

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Speaker 2: that takes or somewhere that hosts any kind of event

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Speaker 2: that it takes two weeks to respond to an email,

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Speaker 2: Like that's that's madness to me, because as far as

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Speaker 2: I'm concerned, like you should be like two three days tops,

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Speaker 2: on leave, in which case you know there should be

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Speaker 2: someone else to do that for you. But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: had a company contact me after two weeks for you know, Glasgow,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, thank you so much. That's

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Speaker 2: very kind of considerate of you. But unfortunately am I

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Speaker 2: of all all my Glasgow dates arranged for twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Sorry because like I I did it, you know, someone

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Speaker 2: else got there first, which is a shame obviously, but

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Speaker 2: like maybe you should have answered your emails like quicker

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Speaker 2: and you know, but anyway, I know what you're thinking,

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Speaker 2: you're thinking, what your jibber jabber in fact me, in

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Speaker 2: fact you Well, but first we've got to get our

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Speaker 2: source on. Our sources are Marlina Dietrich Life and Legend

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Speaker 2: by Stephen Buck, Marlena Dietrich by Maria Riva, Blue Angel,

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Speaker 2: The Life of Marlena Dietrich by Donald Spoto, Steenberg and Dietrich.

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Speaker 2: The Phenomenology of Spectacle by James Phillips. A Woman at

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Speaker 2: War Marlena Dietrich Remembered by David J.

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Speaker 3: Riva.

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Speaker 2: The Sewing Circle Hollywood's Greatest Secret Female Stars Who Loved

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Speaker 2: Other Women by Axel Madsden. The Girls When Sappho Goes

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Speaker 2: to Hollywood by Diana McLellan, and of course we have

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Speaker 2: our old favorites hestory dot com and biography dot com.

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Speaker 2: I will say it uncomfortably good. Then let's begin. So

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Speaker 2: Marlena Dietrich was born, as most of us are, she

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Speaker 2: was born Yeah, So she was born Marie Magdalene Dietrich

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Speaker 2: the Lewis Strauss in Berlin. I will do accents. They

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Speaker 2: So she was born to Wilhelmina Elizabeth Josephine and I

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Speaker 2: It's a very sharp shot, sharp sharp sharp short. Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, I'm getting worse. It's a sharp short name.

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Speaker 2: course it does, of course. So her beloved father, Lewis

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Speaker 2: So she is in her mourning garb. She doesn't go places.

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Speaker 2: Of a silver lining though, because they were married, they

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Speaker 2: should probably mention where the name Marlena came from. So basically,

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Speaker 2: and we have to respect that. So why she's grown

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Speaker 2: Well, when when I fall into things, I end up

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Speaker 2: and she ends up at the Oscars, you know what

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Speaker 2: You know, they would play the appropriate like soundtrack for

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Speaker 2: genuine role in a film called The Little Napoleon. So

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Speaker 2: Rudolph cyber Now as someone who's just constantly this big

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Speaker 2: the evidence suggests that this in fact was a shotgun wedding.

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Speaker 2: So effectively, Marlena Dietrich was pregnant and being you know,

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Speaker 2: Hollywood sort.

427
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 3: Of loses its fizz with.

428
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 2: Her and she gets an interesting offer. So it's the

429
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 2: mid thirties. Her films are doing okay, but they're not

430
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 2: quite and she starts dating John Gilbert. John Gilbert had

431
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 2: gone from like silent movies to talkies, and he had

432
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: a very light speaking voice, but the studios tried to

433
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 2: like alter his voice and like post to kind of

434
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 2: go make it sound a bit more manly and as such,

435
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 2: like this rumor mill started going out. They had a

436
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 2: high pitched, squeaky voice, and it kind of tanked his career.

437
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 2: Didn't tank his love life, though, because he was married

438
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 2: four times and like in the middle of like i

439
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 2: think between marriage two and three, he's dating Guerta Garbo,

440
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 2: who ends up leaving him at the altar like drama

441
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 2: Drama Central. So allegedly his last marriage ended because of

442
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 2: his affair with Marlena, but they like officially start dating

443
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: between like nineteen thirty five and nineteen thirty six, and

444
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 2: she tries to get him a comeback in one of

445
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: his films because you know, things are not going great

446
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: for him, but it doesn't work, and he basically drinks

447
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: himself to death, like that's what happens, you know, And

448
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 2: Marlena is very upsetal for this, Like she actually breaks

449
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 2: down crying in a church like sobbing. I mean, I'm

450
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 2: hoping it's real and it wasn't just for show, Like

451
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 2: it'd be nice to know that she had that level

452
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 2: of empathy when you know what they say, nothing gets

453
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 2: you over the last one like the next one, and

454
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 2: she starts getting down with Douglas Fairbanks Junior, who was

455
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 2: very much married to Joan Crawford. Now there are whispers,

456
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: there are rumors that it probably happened. So basically there's

457
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 2: there's a rumor that Joan Crawford was also part of

458
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 2: the social social circle, no, the sewing circle. She was

459
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 2: also part of the sewing circle, so that's right, and

460
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 2: they end up like going on holiday together, like Marlena Dietrich,

461
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 2: Douglas Fairbanks Junior, like her husband Rudolph, and Rudolph's mistress,

462
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 2: like just everybody all at once. But yeah, there's the

463
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: thing as well in Hollywood at the time and across

464
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 2: America actually is there was a thing called a lavender marriage.

465
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 2: And a lavender marriage was that usually put together by studios,

466
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: you know, where if one person was like a lesbian

467
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 2: or a gay man, and they would marry them to

468
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 2: make them look like a headone orgative couple. Even if

469
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: even if say, for example, both of them were bisexual, right,

470
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 2: it would be like that because have you ever noticed

471
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 2: that if bisexual people like if a woman is bisexual,

472
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 2: you know, men often think that women are like pretending

473
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 2: to like other women, you know, for performative reasons for men,

474
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 2: or that they can be easily quote unquote turned, you know,

475
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: and that gay men are.

476
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 3: Going to be obsessed with them.

477
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 2: Like it's funny how the very concept of sexuality revolves

478
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 2: around men. And but I digress. So these lavender marriages

479
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 2: would happen. I'm not saying this was one. I'm just

480
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 2: saying that, you know, they assume that both of these

481
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: people are going to be promiscuous and they're both gonna,

482
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: you know, fuck men. But the point is they wanted

483
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 2: it to look like this was a marriage, a real

484
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 2: March Jeniue marriage. But it's Hollywood, so how much is real?

485
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 2: So yeah, these uh, there's rumors that she was having

486
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 2: a wee thing. We don't Catford sous, rumors she was

487
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: having a thing with May West. You know, just Hollywood's weird,

488
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. So, like the whole thing with

489
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 2: her Banks Junior is if she was chatting to somebody

490
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: that she was, you know, interested in lays interested in her,

491
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 2: is she would let him listen in on the phone

492
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 2: call and then let him go like absolutely ape shit

493
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 2: ranting about her suitors, which is I mean, it's a

494
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 2: level of like petty that I don't want to aspire to.

495
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 2: But also I appreciate her tenacity. But yes, this is

496
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 2: the point where she is box office poison quote unquote.

497
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 3: Are you know?

498
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 2: And she she has fans, right nineteen thirty nine, good

499
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 2: bunch of fans, and one of which is you know,

500
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 2: the leader of the Third Right. So not the kind

501
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 2: of fans you want, you know, I get it, I

502
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 2: get it. I wouldn't want anyone following me or being

503
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 2: interested in me. I don't want Nazis, like in any capacity,

504
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 2: to be supportive of me, like I don't. I don't

505
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:32,240
Speaker 2: want you, just like I don't want conservatives or Republicans.

506
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 2: I want decent human beings who actually, you know, don't

507
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: need explain to them that you should care about other people.

508
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: That basic empathy is not virtues signaling, you know, not

509
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: keen on that in any capacity, not my thing.

510
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 3: No, thank you byeye.

511
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, she's not doing me on the box office.

512
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 2: But you know.

513
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 3: That's right.

514
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 2: The Nazi government, you know, Nazi Germany, they contact her

515
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 2: and they request that she stars in a range of

516
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 2: propaganda films, you know, to show how amazing Germany is

517
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 2: and the Third Right and everything that goes along with that,

518
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 2: but like two years previously, she had already applied for

519
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 2: American citizenship and she was like ready to renounce, and

520
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 2: she says what she was doing, she was renouncing her

521
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 2: German citizenship because she was like, I'm not fucking involved

522
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 2: with this bullshit. I'm not my circus, not my monkey's no,

523
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 2: thank you adios Adolf, like fuck off, no, and very

524
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 2: much a fuck this for a game of socials. But

525
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 2: when they request, when they contact her, when they ask

526
00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 2: her to be in these propaganda movies, play response nine,

527
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 2: just nine, like, oh, we love you, You're amazing when you

528
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 2: be in this movie. Want you to promote her horrific

529
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 2: fascist agenda? No, like I love it. It's like the same, uh,

530
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 2: the same feeling I get about Princess Alice of Battenberg

531
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 2: where she's just like letting a cigarette and just being

532
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 2: like no, like I love it, like.

533
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 3: No, like I love the just.

534
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 2: Putting the ash out on the fucking soldiers like shoes,

535
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 2: like no, Like that's also terrifying. You've got gobles and

536
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: det lar being like, come be in her movies, get

537
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 2: to fuck me. No, oh actually no, I'm correction correction

538
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 2: already No, it wasn't nineteen thirty nine, it was nineteen

539
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 2: thirty seven, so it was like.

540
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 3: Pre war.

541
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 2: So like she was watching what was happening in Germany

542
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 2: and they're like, come and support her homeland, and she's like, no, no,

543
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 2: she doesn't want to be involved in that, and like

544
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 2: straight away it's actually after this straight away she's like, nope, citizenship,

545
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 2: thanks bye bye, and that's what she does. She doesn't

546
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 2: renounce her German cityship citizenship until nineteen thirty nine, when

547
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 2: you know, the war technically starts and she's like definitely gone,

548
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 2: thanks by, but yeah, bold move and we love it.

549
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 2: So Marlena Dietrich she actually starts fundraising to get Jews

550
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 2: out of Germany. So she starts like raising money for

551
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 2: Jewish refugees and she ends up donating what was it

552
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 2: her entire salary from one of her films in nineteen

553
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 2: thirty seven, you know, like half a million dollars. I

554
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 2: think it is like towards this like fundraising. And when

555
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,399
Speaker 2: World War two breaks out, like she like doubles down

556
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 2: on it. So like she'd gone back to Paramount, tried

557
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 2: a romantic comedy. Things did not go down well. Yes,

558
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 2: the movie was a knight without armor. So then when

559
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 2: obviously the war breaks out, World War two, and she

560
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 2: becomes one of the first like celebrities, you know, public

561
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 2: figures to start selling war bonds. And the biggest part

562
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 2: is is like she actually sells more war bonds than

563
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 2: any other like person, any other celebrity, any other She

564
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 2: sells the fucking most, because of course she does. Like

565
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,439
Speaker 2: she even then starts doing like the USO sort of thing,

566
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 2: like the tours where she visits the troops, and so

567
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 2: she even goes like pretty close to the German front,

568
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 2: and uh, she gets she gets contacted by the OSS,

569
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 2: so the big of the British sort of secret service,

570
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: and they ask her to make a series of recordings

571
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 2: in German, the whole purpose of which is to like

572
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 2: demoralize German soldiers, which I mean, I don't know how

573
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 2: you can bring down the morale of Nazis, because you know,

574
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 2: they're Nazis and pretty shite human beings and lack again

575
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: empathy and consideration. But yes, she's so she ends up

576
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 2: doing these recordings, which is fucking brilliant, like and and

577
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 2: so like you'd think, you know, she's doing the bonds,

578
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 2: she's raising money for Jewish refugees. She's, ah, she's got

579
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 2: these weird messages going on, she's visiting trips near the front,

580
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 2: Like yeah, but Jed Groover is convinced that's right. President

581
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 2: of America is convinced. No, he wasn't the President of America.

582
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 2: That's a lie. He was ahead of the FBI.

583
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 3: Fuck me, I'm tired.

584
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. So he's the head of the FBI

585
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 2: and he's like, that bitch is a German spy, and

586
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 2: he ends up having her tracked and followed, which I

587
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 2: feel was not the best use of you know, those

588
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 2: money and manpower just feels like a waste really. So

589
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 2: they end up like tracking her and like stogging her

590
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: and like going through her mail and whatnot, and they

591
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 2: don't find, you know, any like conspiracy in any spying.

592
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 2: What they do find is salacious details and so many,

593
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 2: so many lovers, just an abundance of lovers, some might say.

594
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 3: And so.

595
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 2: During World War Two as well, which is like so

596
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 2: fucking funny, is that people assumed that she was easy,

597
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 2: you know, because she was known to have all these lovers,

598
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 2: and they thought, you know, they think, if you're bisexual,

599
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 2: you're clearly as slut right, that's just how they do things.

600
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 2: And so Ma'm would come up to her and they'd

601
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 2: be like trying to get it all, and she was like,

602
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 2: I'll sleep with you over Hitler's dead body. So i

603
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 2: will sleep with you over Hitler's dead body. Like yeah, yeah,

604
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 2: when he's dead, then I'll consider you.

605
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 3: You absolute call gwombo.

606
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, she wasn't really into the whole fascist

607
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 2: Germany situation, unlike her sister, who was like running a cinema,

608
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 2: hosting things for Nazi trips and just generally supporting them.

609
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: And so when she tries to get to the States,

610
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 2: she expects Malena to like help her get there, and

611
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 2: she's like, no, I'm disowning you and her husband and

612
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 2: your son because you know, nazis not happening. I mean, well,

613
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 2: she kept them safe at first, and she vouched them,

614
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 2: and she was like, they didn't do it, they were

615
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 2: just in a bad situation. And then over time she

616
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 2: was like, no, actually, their fucking assholes. I'm done with them,

617
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 2: which you know, I respect. I respect being like doing

618
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 2: it alive with people who allied with Nazis feels like

619
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 2: a good litmus test, you know, shitty family aside, Molina

620
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 2: gets awarded the Jon d'arneum from France and the US

621
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 2: Medal of Freedom for extraordinary record entertaining trips overseas during

622
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 2: the war. But like she gets his award and that's

623
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 2: going great. But uh yeah, yeah, still not creating the

624
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 2: box office. So her professional life is not it's not

625
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 2: going well, but again personally not so bad. So at

626
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 2: this point, Marie's in boarding school.

627
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 3: So she all she gets to school, which is nice.

628
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 2: So her daughter's in school, and she'll go visit her

629
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 2: husband and she'll go visit well, her husband and as

630
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 2: mistress and Tamara, that's her name, Tamara, And so she

631
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 2: would go there and go to parties and she would

632
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 2: just take these long trips and use it as excuses

633
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 2: to go sort of connect with, you know, other celebrities

634
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 2: and other well known people like honest fucking came Away

635
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 2: and things. Things are you know, they're warming up for

636
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 2: her and she ends up having these long love affairs.

637
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:56,280
Speaker 2: She's got Freed, she's got Mercedes de Costa, she's got

638
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 2: Dolores Delrio and.

639
00:44:59,000 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 3: So on and so forth.

640
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 2: You know, I mean, she's getting around, she's getting around. Basically,

641
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 2: there's you know a rotating door. It's rotating, revolving, it's

642
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 2: a revolving door of lovers and they're just going through.

643
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 2: And one of our lovers, Jean Jarbin, he is so

644
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 2: mad that she's like sleeping with other people. And she's like,

645
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 2: you knew this when you got in this with me,

646
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 2: Like I'm married and you are here staying with me

647
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 2: in my house and you're mad I'm sleeping with someone else.

648
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 3: Like what feels like a double standard.

649
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 2: And he would respond to her actions with his fucking fists.

650
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 2: He would beat the shit out of her, and clearly

651
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 2: not wanting to take things lying down.

652
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 3: She decided to just nope out of that situation.

653
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 2: No, not dealing with that, which again fair, but she

654
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 2: did get like a wee bit of revenge, which I

655
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 2: am proud of. Is like, so he'd gone back to

656
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 2: France for reasons, and he left like a bunch of

657
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: really expensive paintings behind and that he was planning to

658
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 2: come back and deal with and she just fucking sells

659
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 2: them all because of course she does, which is, you know,

660
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 2: the least she could do, considering he beat the crab

661
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 2: out of our absolute shit bag. Oh. Actually, here's one

662
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 2: of my favorite stories. About Mariena Dietrich is like she'd

663
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 2: gone out to like a bar, and she was flirting

664
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 2: with a serviceman at a bar, as one does girls

665
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 2: like a man in uniform. What can I say? Girls

666
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 2: like a girl in uniform with like women in uniform,

667
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 2: not girls. I don't want a girl's gut, that's creepy.

668
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:47,280
Speaker 2: I want a woman in a will cut suit sing

669
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 2: or a man and a will cuts it or a

670
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 2: man or a woman, a gender non cowoman person and

671
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 2: a cozy cardian. Everyone that's cutting a cozy cardian anyway,

672
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 2: like an owl. Ooh, okay, the medicine's kicking in. So yeah,

673
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 2: Marlina is flirting with a serviceman and a bar, and

674
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,760
Speaker 2: he is so taken with her that his wife actually

675
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 2: cites her as the reason for their divorce, even though

676
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 2: they didn't know more than like flirting a fucking bar.

677
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 2: But anyway, her film career's not doing great, and so

678
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:32,439
Speaker 2: she ends up going back to the stage. So from

679
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 2: like the nineteen fifties all the way up to the

680
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 2: nineteen seventies, she's in you know, she's on the stage.

681
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 2: She's doing cabaret like performances, like she's in Paris, London,

682
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 2: Las Vegas, Berlin, like she's she goes on the stage

683
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 2: tour in Europe like in like the sixties early sixties,

684
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 2: and she ends up in Berlin, which is well, it's

685
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 2: still split, it's separated at this point. So she goes

686
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 2: to West Berlin and she gets booed. They're like, Marlena,

687
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 2: go home, and they're like totally pissed at her. And

688
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 2: there I think there's like two bomb threats for the

689
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 2: stage that she's on, and it's like she's like shaken

690
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 2: up by this obviously. But then when she goes to

691
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 2: East Berlin and she performs there, everyone's like, yay Marlena.

692
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 2: So you know, swings and roundabouts. But yeah, she's out touring,

693
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 2: she's performing, she's singing, she's doing her stuff, and even

694
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 2: though she's doing all this, she's still doing a bunch

695
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 2: of other people. So at one point she's she's in

696
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 2: a relationship with You'll Brunner, you know from The King

697
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 2: and I You'll Bernner, who's, yeah, the man who like

698
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 2: was involved in the Vietnam baby situation, like with the Playboy,

699
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 2: and it's madness. It's wild anyway, So she's with Mike

700
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 2: Todd and George Bernard Shaw and John Wayne and Kirk

701
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 2: Douglas and Frank Sinatra. Like she is just getting into

702
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 2: everybody and like her and Riddolph are still married at

703
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 2: this point, and like she is supporting them, like financially,

704
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 2: she buys them a ranch in California and it gets

705
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 2: It doesn't go well for Rudolf's mistress though, because she's

706
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 2: ill and she starts like declining like mentally, and she

707
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 2: gets agrophobia and she's like stops eating and speaking, and

708
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 2: she ends up getting committed to a mental institute, you know,

709
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 2: because they're like she needs to go here, and she

710
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 2: goes there and another inmate attacks her and kills her.

711
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 2: And like she had been with you know, we'd al

712
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 2: super for like thirty five years, Like Maria saw her

713
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 2: as like another mother, and yeah, she passed away. It's

714
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 2: passed away. She was fucking killed. So like in the

715
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 2: sixties and the seventies, so like throughout that period, like

716
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 2: she starts using various techniques to mold her body. So

717
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 2: she does like spanks before spanks, she has quote unquote

718
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 2: body sculpting undergarments, you know, shapewear, and so she's like

719
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 2: making the shape where and like wearing it. And she's

720
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 2: also doing non surgical facelips. It's tape, it's all taped,

721
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 2: so she like tapes her face back and then puts

722
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 2: a wig on and she like disguises it. And she

723
00:50:55,480 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 2: has this fucking brilliant quote. So she says, kethel grooming

724
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 2: may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you

725
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 2: can't fall a flight of stairs. So yeah, you might

726
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 2: be like conjuring and taping her face back and stable

727
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 2: in bits and the wagon, but yeah, yeah that those stairs,

728
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 2: they're still gonna be tough to climb, you know what

729
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 2: I mean. So yeah, she does that, and then in

730
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty five, she gets diagnosed with cervical cancer and

731
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 2: this is just not not great for her, and so

732
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 2: she ends up taking like like she's set of medicating

733
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 2: with like booze and painkillers, and it gets to the

734
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 2: point where like this is just like really starts taking

735
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 2: a toll on her. And then like things start going

736
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 2: wrong with her legs, like the circulation starts going and

737
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 2: she's having a lot of trouble with it. And in

738
00:51:55,040 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three, she ends up fracturing like her left

739
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 2: her left thigh and she has to get like skin

740
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 2: crafts and a bunch of other stuff, so they well,

741
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 2: a leg will hume because it just wasn't. And then

742
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy four she falls and breaks her leg,

743
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 2: right leg, so it's like left thigh, right leg, and

744
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 2: she ends up like just not being able.

745
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 3: To like perform properly.

746
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 2: But like at some point during this as well, she

747
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 2: ends up in a movie with David Bowie. David Bowie

748
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 2: Bowie Boie. I don't care she ends up in a movie.

749
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 2: I mean, of all the queer icons to smoosh together

750
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 2: in a film, I mean, it's not a great film,

751
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 2: but you should still watch it because I mean, i'd

752
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 2: like to say they sing. She kind of sings. She

753
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 2: does what she believes is singing again, respect the drip,

754
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 2: Like god, the woman had such good style. And yeah,

755
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 2: so she's she's breaking bets all over the place. I

756
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 2: fucked it up again. She fractures like one leg, she

757
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 2: fractures the other leg. And then in seventy five she

758
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 2: breaks her thigh bone and she's like, Okay, no more

759
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 2: stage for me. I'm done now, and she has to

760
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:19,399
Speaker 2: basically like stop doing the whole stage performance because she's

761
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 2: too old to do it now. In seventy six, her

762
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 2: husband Rudolph dies, he passes away, and seventy eight that's

763
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 2: when she's in the justa Jiggalow movie with David Berry

764
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 2: and like they're in the movie, like she's like the

765
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 2: madam of the brothel and he works for her. It's

766
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 2: it's a movie that exists. So after this, she basically

767
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 2: becomes like a reclose herma and she just like goes

768
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 2: back to her little apartment in Paris where she only

769
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 2: has like family or servants, and she doesn't like go anywhere,

770
00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 2: but she does spend a lot of time on the phone.

771
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 2: She has a monthly phone battle of like three thousand

772
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 2: quid because she's phoning everybody. So she's phoning world leaders

773
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 2: like Margaret Thatcher and ron o' reagan and this is

774
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,240
Speaker 2: the eighties and she's just like calling all these people,

775
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 2: like she's trying to save like a Babel's back theater

776
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 2: and so like she's happy to speak, but she doesn't

777
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 2: want to be filmed, which is fair enough. So she's

778
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 2: like chatting to the people and she's trying to like

779
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,879
Speaker 2: save like this thing or she's talking about the fall

780
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,240
Speaker 2: of the Berlin Wall and you know it's it's being

781
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 2: like shared across like the BBC and like French radio

782
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 2: and all that jazz and like, allegedly, according to her grandson,

783
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 2: like the reason she had phone up with these politicians

784
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 2: was to give out shit to them for being dis

785
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 2: I just love the idea of Malina Ddrich just being

786
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 2: on the phone to Margaret Thatcher being like, listen here, beach,

787
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 2: have you tried, you know, not being a cunt, like,

788
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 2: but yeah, I love the idea of it. So at

789
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 2: one point she gets like these calls from a doctor

790
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 2: who offers to like fly out and see her, and

791
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 2: she's like, don't speak to me, and she cuts them off.

792
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 2: And then a few weeks later she allows him to

793
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 2: phone her again and he's like, I'm spending ninety dollars

794
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 2: an hour on this therapist and she's like, why give

795
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 2: money to the therapist when you can give money to me,

796
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 2: And so like he sends her a check and she

797
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 2: like sings to him on the phone every night, like

798
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 2: that's commitment. So Marlena she becomes bedridden and just can't

799
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 2: go anywhere, and eventually her kidneys give up and on

800
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 2: the sixth of May nineteen ninety two, the age of ninety,

801
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 2: she passes away from kidney failure in her home in Pais.

802
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 2: Her funeral was a requiem mass held in Paris, which

803
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 2: i'd like fifteen hundred like mourners with like important like

804
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 2: dignitaries and whatnot from Germany, France, England, Spain. The French

805
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 2: president is there and he's got like the legion of

806
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 2: honor and everything for her. And yeah, she has her

807
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 2: funeral in France, and she is buried in Berlin, fairly

808
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 2: close to her mother actually, and then like the majority

809
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 2: of resity is sold to the Steve Tungue Deutsche Kinematic

810
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 2: so becomes like the main part of the exhibition of

811
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 2: the film Fieldhouse in Berlin. And so the family then

812
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 2: also sell like a bunch of goodness, just papers and

813
00:56:53,840 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 2: correspondents and letters and you know, costumes and prop It

814
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:01,439
Speaker 2: was some one of the stuff that she'd taken from

815
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 2: like the stage of movies, and all of her personal

816
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 2: effects get sold to like auction, so you know they

817
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,879
Speaker 2: were out there. You could buy them if you had

818
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 2: enough money, if you wanted to. So yeah, thus ends

819
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 2: the story of Marlena Dietrich who was yeah, very polarizing

820
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 2: figure in many scenarios. And if you liked my retailing

821
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 2: of the story, even with my gravelly see voice, please

822
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 2: feel free to rate in review five stars and appreciate it.

823
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 2: But of course it is recommendation time, so I'm I'm

824
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 2: gonna recommend for watching, just to check a lot, go

825
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 2: watch the movie you should love your best life. Treat

826
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 2: yourself for reading. I'm gonna suggest it's not a bloody

827
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 2: trend this book about I Don't Adhd. If you were

828
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 2: not it with ADHD, which you may be because you're

829
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 2: listening to me, you might want to go read it.

830
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 2: And for listening. For listening, David Bowie, go listen to

831
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 2: some David Boie style manly single the Sky.

832
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 3: You deserve it.

833
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 2: Go to it, and with that I shall bite you. Goodnight,

834
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 2: adieus all of whim my friends, Bye bye,