Édith Piaf
- Singer
- Actor
Met · 1948
Close friends from Piaf's first American years — Dietrich stood witness at her 1952 wedding to Jacques Pills, and the two were photographed together across a decade of tours.
- Actor
- Singer
Marlene Dietrich
Screen legend and cabaret voice — Piaf's friend and the witness at her 1952 wedding; Paris claimed her at the end, and Montmartre holds her grave's flowers each year.
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- 1901–1992
- 1901
- 1992
- German-American
- ActorSinger
People Marlene Dietrich Knew
Charles Boyer
- Actor
Collaborated with · 1936
Boyer and Dietrich starred opposite one another in The Garden of Allah (1936).
Erich Maria Remarque
- Author
Met · 1937–1940
They met on the Lido in September 1937, during the Venice film festival, and the affair ran until at least 1940, carried mostly by letters, telegrams and telephone calls between two Germans in flight from the same regime. A selection of the correspondence was published in 2003 as Sag mir, daß du mich liebst.
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Met · 1948
Édith Piaf
Close friends from Piaf's first American years — Dietrich stood witness at her 1952 wedding to Jacques Pills, and the two were photographed together across a decade of tours.
Collaborated with · 1936
Charles Boyer
Boyer and Dietrich starred opposite one another in The Garden of Allah (1936).
Met · 1937–1940
Erich Maria Remarque
They met on the Lido in September 1937, during the Venice film festival, and the affair ran until at least 1940, carried mostly by letters, telegrams and telephone calls between two Germans in flight from the same regime. A selection of the correspondence was published in 2003 as Sag mir, daß du mich liebst.