One of the Turner Broadcasting channels ran a 2001 documentary on Marlene Dietrich, tonight, and it was just wonderful. It was really packed full of footage, comments by family and contemporaries and even an audio of her first radio-telephone contact with her mother in Berlin as our troops were pushing through to liberate. She had taken a lot of flack for leaving her mother behind during the war. She said it was what her "Mami" would have wanted. It was obvious from that one call that this was so. It was heart-wrenching to listen to the poignant love and respect which came through in that one short call.

There are also several clips of her daughter, Burt Bacharach, and Rosemary Clooney talking about her as well as the biographer of Jean R(?) the French actor she was in love with and who was her anchor in life. Of course, there are also many of her singing and acting, though she considered acting in Hollywood to be prostitution.

There was much, much more, some of which may read at this site. Well worth watching, I highly recommend it. I learned a lot more about her than I ever knew and it has given me an even deeper respect for this extraordinary woman.

kat