
December 27, 1901 · 124 years old
Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) was a German-American actress and singer, widely regarded as one of the most iconic figures of classic Hollywood. She rose to fame in the 1930s with films like The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express, and Destry Rides Again, captivating audiences with her sultry voice, striking…

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.

A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.

The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

Explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle.

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.

After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.

An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of airplane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number of flying hours due to metal fatigue.

A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.

The neglected wife of a British diplomat travels alone to Paris to visit an old friend and there she meets a man who falls in love with her and makes her question her marriage.

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.

An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief.

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.

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. When his crash c...

After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely ric...

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, the ultimate self-made star, explores his own screen image and what it took to cre...

Lily falls in love with the sculptor who leaves her out of fear of commitment.

In order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor.

A deeply-in-debt gambler sets his cap for a beautiful woman, not knowing that she is also penniless.