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Marlene Dietrich Trivia
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- She sucked lemon wedges between takes to keep her mouth muscles tight.
- She thought of feet to be the ugliest part of the human body, and therefore always tried to hide them in one way or another
- Marlene's father was Lt. Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who died when she was very young. Her mother remarried to Colonel Eduard von Losch, who was killed in WWI.
- Marlene suffered from bacilophobia, the fear of germs.
- Ten years after her death, Berlin - the city of Dietrich's birth which she shunned for most of her life - declared her an honorary citizen. On April 18, 2002, the city's legislature bestowed honor on her as "an ambassador for a democratic, freedom-loving and humane Germany." The declaration hoped this "would symbolize the city of Berlin's reconciliation with her."
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