TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Marlene Dietrich.
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Birthdate: December 27, 1901
Death date: May 6, 1992
Marlene Dietrich
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
No Reviews
2
1930s
3.3410
14
1940s
2.7163
12
1950s
3.3520
7
1960s
2.0190
2
1970s
No Reviews
2
1980s
No Reviews
0
1990s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.9939
2.9939
Marlene Dietrich Movie Rankings
1
3.6103A Mexican government investigator and his young American wife put their honeymoon on hold in an American border town when they become embroiled in a frame-up planned by the town's chief investigator. ...more about Touch of Evil
DVD from $8.89
(11 sellers)
2
3.2353The Blue Angel deals with the humiliation and breakdown an inhibited, overbearing, sexually-repressed instructor at a boys' prep school. Professor Immanuel Rath discovers some of his students passing round seductive photographs of a sexy cabaret singer. ...more about Blue Angel
DVD from $28.73
(10 sellers)
3
3.2087When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. ...more about Witness for the Prosecution
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
DVD from $10.65
(13 sellers)
4
3.0483
Although Destry hates guns and gun play, he takes the position as town deputy promising to clean up the town when the sheriff goes missing. Despite the fact he has sniper accuracy, Destry prefers to keep the law without violence. ...more about Destry Rides Again
DVD from $5.66
(12 sellers)
5
3.0433
When Phileas Fogg is challenged to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days, he bets his entire fortune and leaves with a new butler on a world tour. This Victorian adventure has a kicker, the bank of England has been robbed. ...more about Around the World in Eighty Days
DVD from $8.49
(15 sellers)
6
2.9907
Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. ...more about Shanghai Express
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.9601
Young Princess Sophia of Germany is taken to Russia to marry the half-wit Grand Duke Peter, son of the Empress. The domineering Empress hopes to improve the royal blood line. ...more about Scarlet Empress
DVD from $19.17
(10 sellers)
8
2.9229
It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. ...more about Judgment at Nuremberg
DVD from $5.99
(13 sellers)
9
2.8661
A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to revenge his fiance's death when she is killed during a robbery. ...more about Rancho Notorious
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.8557
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians. ...more about Dishonored
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.7842
Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real murderer. ...more about Stage Fright
DVD from $8.63
(13 sellers)
12
2.7496
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. ...more about Morocco
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $16.37
(10 sellers)
13
2.7250
Domini, an heiress who has led a cloistered life, visits the North African desert for spiritual renewal. There she meets Boris, recently escaped from a Trappist monastery. Their friendship ripens into love, but he conceals his past from her. ...more about Garden of Allah
DVD from $9.59
(8 sellers)
14
2.6678
A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. ...more about Foreign Affair
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.6597
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. ...more about Manpower
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.5875
Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company. ...more about No Highway
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.4529
Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for insighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes very popular with U.S. navymen by performing at the 'Seven Sinners'. ...more about Seven Sinners
DVD from $16.22
(12 sellers)
18
2.4337
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. ...more about Blonde Venus
DVD from $16.37
(11 sellers)
19
2.4017
On the eve of World War II (1939) English officer Ralph Denistoun is in Nazi Germany on an espionage mission to recover a poison gas formula from Prof. Krosigk. He is helped by Lydia and her band of gypsies. Naturally romance develops along the way. ...more about Golden Earrings
DVD from $16.37
(11 sellers)
20
2.2442
Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. The backdrop is SternbergÍs surreal and fantastic Carnaval in Spain. ...more about Devil Is a Woman
DVD from $16.37
(11 sellers)
21
2.0547
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. ...more about Kismet
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.0319
In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara. ...more about Spoilers
DVD from $5.66
(9 sellers)
23
1.9695
French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker who is her fiance that she is two different women -- a deception made necessary by the arrival of a man acquainted with the swath she cut across Europe. ...more about Flame of New Orleans
DVD from $16.37
(11 sellers)
24
1.8721
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to spain, to get the pearls out of France, but getting the pearls, back from him prooves to be difficult without falling in love. ...more about Desire
- Not Available on DVD
25
1.7716
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. ...more about Pittsburgh
DVD from $16.22
(12 sellers)
27
1.4885
Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. ...more about Song of Songs
- Not Available on DVD
30
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the ...more about Follow the Boys
- Not Available on DVD
31
"I Wish You Love" offers a time capsule of Miss Dietrich's legendary stage act. The television special was taped in London over two days and later edited to a one-hour concert version. ...more about I Wish You Love
DVD from $22.99
(1 sellers)
32
Laurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the count Lerski, who now works as waiter but do not tell her. When she hears from her husband he is a waiter, she thinks Lerksi lies and throws him out... ...more about I Kiss Your Hand Madame
- Not Available on DVD
33
Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. He becomes imprisoned in Siberia, as a revolutionary, until the 1917 uprisings. ...more about Knight Without Armour
- Not Available on DVD
34
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Lisa Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. Why not her new obstetrician Dr. ...more about Lady Is Willing
- Not Available on DVD
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