Marlene Dietrich was one of the twentieth century's most enduring icons of beauty and glamour, whose appeal crossed every nationality, belief and even sexuality.Marlene was the supreme embodiment of erotic sophistication whose death only served to make her ever more alluring and mysterious. She burst onto the world scene in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel in 1930 and enjoyed a glittering film career, abandoning her native Germany for America when the Nazis put pressure on her to star in their propaganda films.