Marlene Dietrich on Sex Symbols
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- "I have never used my body. I have played roles where the legs were used and the body was used but in life, I have never done that" - Marlene Dietrich in 1969
Interview by Jay Kent Hackleman
Marlene Dietrich was one of the first big stars and sex symbols in Hollywood. The German-born actress appeared in 50+ films during a 30+ year career. She also became a force touring the world as a provocative cabaret singer. During WWII, Dietrich took on the honorary rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and helped raise morale visiting Allied troops in Europe. Dietrich lived life to the fullest, to say the least.
“Ms. Dietrich agreed to our interview on the condition that it could be done in a dressing room at the theater," Jay Kent Hackleman recalled. "I certainly had no problem with that and she gave the entire interview reclining on a chaise longue and somehow that seemed absolutely appropriate.” From a chaise, Dietrich waxed prophetic on the idea of sex symbols, America's youth complex, and the traps of credit and material possessions.Thought provoking indeed. Enjoy.
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"They've been young long enough. They should grow up."
Melanie Anne Ahern still applies today
Who are they ?
@@amolchaturvedi2151 The United States.
Absolutely profound. I've never heard a more profound statement
Disagree with her there. We werent 200 years old yet. Btw the youth cult was merely part of the bigger culture and historically our age of adulthood came on Dec 7 1941.
Wow I love her mentality it's crazy this interview was during the 60s. She Is 100% right about America with materialism and youth culture.
Germany, from the Industrial Revolution a leading bastion of high end manufacturing, is not materialistic? As for youth culture, regarde recent photos of Heidi Klum, now near age 47, e.g., still self styling as '60s Brigitte Bardot. Circumspection is an intellectual virtue.
@@JudgeJulieLit oh hush you hussy. enjoy your life.
"america still thinks that it's a young nation. i don't think it is, it should stop that. i think they have been young long enough. they should grow up."
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Bitterness is kind of creeping in on her at this point in her life. You can hear how she feels unloved now by the country that made her a star.
@@thisismyname3928 Yep every time there is someone saying something realistic about US, there has to be an American who would find any excuse to say it aint so.
America sucks and no amount of sugarcoating will prevent that. Deal with it and shut up
RoboTube yes... we suck so much millions of people from around the world risk their lives to cross deserts and oceans to get here.
I just don’t understand why a lot of people seem to _want_ America to suck by wrecking the very reasons that drew them to come here or stay here (be it those foreign or domestic).
@@TheRealNormanBates Yep this is the only thing every American says too. As if all people go in US. Only Dirt poor people from 3rd world countries go into US and they go there because for money and not for anything else.
So let me elaborate it for you:
1. The majority of immigrants coming to US are from mexico and south america which US is directly responsible for empoverishing by creating chaos and exploiting all those small south american countries in order for them to become rich. US steals from the entire world. Plundering middle east oil, Using south america as their farm and depleting natural resources , putting dictators in power to prevent the rise of socialism.
You wont find many (if any lately) immigrants from developed countries immigrating to US. Also, newsflash, other develop countries also have immigrants - so that is nothing to brag about.
2. America sucks. Many of those people who go to US quickly realize the american dream is one big lie and many of them either get back or turn to crime in order to escape the life of washing dishes or cleaning pools with no chance of social mobility,
So once again the only people who come to US come from south america and are mostly criminals and scum of the society in those other countries. You wont find productive and successful people from other countries coming in US. only the very bottom.
3. The only reason is money. Majority of people go there to work, to endure and to send money at their families home. They arent there because America is nice and has nice social structure or positive things. One of the indicators that those who come in USA dont like US is they dont accept US culture but prefer their own culture and spread it across US. That is the best way to see that they outright detest American values and would rather stick in "Little China" or "Little Russia" quarters of cities than mingle with Americans. They dont try to be americans which clearly shows they dont come to US cuz they want to but because they have no other choice and would rather be elsewhere.
All Americans got after the fall of the USSR - the very scum of Russian society. Prostitutes, dealers, the mafia as immigrants.
It doesnt get more lower than that. That should tell you a lot what kind of people like America. opportunists, criminals with not life prospects in their home countries, convicts etc etc. Other developed countries DO NOT LET THESE PEOPLE IN. There is a 14 yr wait for a Dannish citizenship. In Greece for example u have to adopt the orthodox faith and greek name and surname to be eligable for citizenship. They DONT LET PEOPLE IN Easilly. That is another reason why people go to US.
USA lets these people in cuz they will work for next to nothing thus effectively lowering the wage of American born workers. This is why US is falling apart - because of greedy capitalist bastards
So I would do a research about the type of people that come to Us before I brag about it. Weak argument. Better luck next time
@@TheRealNormanBates More people actually risk their lives to get to Europe. Just saying...
1969. This is still relevant *right now* and it was recorded in 1969.
Doesn't show that Marlene was ahead of her times. It only shows that people don't change.
1969 wasn't a long time ago.
HotSkull If anything this decade's when it all started.
Intelligence is timeless.
@@Carltoncurtis1 50 years passed that's a couple or so of generations.
......this lady was so smart and sophisticated.....with few sentences she analysis the skindeep philosophy of america....she was not only an actress ,but she was also quite intellectual with a prussian spirit.
Ouch! "only an actress"....I think it entails a profound and analytic soul and mind to be a good actress.
She was rac*st and narcissistic. She didn’t want the African-American nurses to deliver or touch her baby.
Her daughter wrote a very distressing book on Marlene. It’s called “Mein Mutter” means my mother in German. I got my copy for $5.
You should burn that crap. What decent human being would tarnish the image of their late mum?
@@sweetblanche9442 a child has every right to an opinion on their own parent and their own upbringing/childhood
@@jayjayjayjay1067 Of course! But it's suspicious when you write and sell a book about it.. don't you think so? Money is the answer.
She was so ahead of her time.
No, it's just that America never grew up
She was just a typical European.
still is
I think most people are agead of their time, however, due to the fear of being outcasted they act 'conservatively' and play it safe because its what is expected. Think about that next time you shame someone for speaking a perspective different than you.
She is and was wonderful.
Nothing and no one is ahead of or behind it’s or their time.
idk who she is, but she spoke to me and I happily listen.
One of the greatest movie stars of all time. "The Blue Angel", "Destry Rides Again", "Witness for the Prosecution", "Touch of Evil." Won a Medal of Freedom for her work with the USO during World War 2.
She defines androgyny
@@soflafit "androgyny" is cool; no matter who does it...
For some reason Marlene Dietrich feels so much more real & alive to me than any other stars of that era.
Her and tallulah are so ahead of their time, i just wish they could see what's queer representation and racial/religion tolerance is like in today's society ❤️
That feel when you're too German to relax
entspannt, the word for relaxed is entspannt
@@alper6928 I thought of the same thing.
Not only does the French and German language have a word for relax, the word relax is even coming from the old French word "relaschier".
@@Chillerll right. europeans (mostly french in my experience) love playing up this trope
Yup, but they weren't talking about a translation of the word "relax", they were talking about a specific context: a ritual for the end of the work day.
It's true that after-work drinks are a lot less common in Germany to this day, so I assume that that's what her answer was about.
The ironic thing is that German, unlike English, does actually have a word for the context - Feierabend (end of work day). Consequently, the Feierabendbier is the beer you enjoy when you're done working for the day.
Trivia: the German word "entspannen" literally translates to "removing tension". Entspannt (relaxed) translates to tension-removed.
How wise this woman was. Way ahead of her time, everything she says in this interview that was recorded in 1969 can apply to today's society.
“The one great love that will never change is mother love”
and her daughter wrote a tell-all book about her im screaming
That’s why children are a disappointment of their parents
That's the only thing I won't agree on with Marlene, because my own mother is absolutely not worthy of being called a mother. Mothers and fathers can both be toxic and abusive. They are people, not angels. They may think something they do is love, but it's actually a mental/ physical torture. She shouldn't had said that with that much confidence. There are enough examples to prove her wrong.
@@Lumosnight Stop talking like all parents are some kinds of angels. I know enough from first hand experience. Please, don't be that ignorant.
@@lumilenm__m5304 let me guess, your parents must be hellish because they tell you to do your chores and they don’t allow you to have a boyfriend? I hear the sound of violins in the background...
I honestly doubt that Marlene was a terrible mother. Did she beat her daughter within an inch of her life? Did she starve her daughter or kicked her out on the streets? Nope. The daughter had a comfy life but wanted to keep being the center of attention hence the ‘mummy didn’t love me enough’ .
@@Lumosnight No u dumb fuck, my mother literally did the worst things, including not seeing me for 11 years. Dad was abusive, physically and mentally and then trying to "redeem" his abuse towards me by pretending nothing ever happened and buying me fucking juice boxes and lil treats, as if I were a fucking dog! Don't u ever dare to come at a stranger with that bull! I have no intentions to tell my life story here, especially to an absolute ignorant fuck like yourself. I NEVER said all mothers r terrible like mine but the examples are enough to counter what Marlene said here. I have no idea about HER motherhood but you can shove that first ironic line of yours up your nasty ass. Fuck, whenever I try to be polite in the comments, there's always sick ignorant bastards like you who invalidate my AND MANY PEOPLE'S struggles. There are a hundred ways to fuck up as a parent and as a result, fuck up a child. If you can't see that and if you don't agree on that, ur a devil with ZERO empathy. Get ur victim blaming brain rotten mother idolizer arse out of here.
She’s actually on point with a lot of her views and assumptions about life and reality. 2021 and America still has A LOT of growing up to do!
Some interviews I'd like to see on this show:
Quentin Tarantino
Bjork
Stephen King
Steve McQueen
Oprah Winfrey
George Carlin
Elizabeth Taylor
Harlan Ellison
Philip Glass
John Waters
Mick Jagger or Keith Richards
Bruce Lee
great recs. stay tuned...
+Blank on Blank pls, orson welles ):
yes, would love some liz taylor...
Stanley Kubrick, man
stephen king has one
love everything she had to say, loved the animation even more
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Thank you for making this gem available. She's so articulate and sensible. I especially admire how firm and coherent her statements are - no mincing words or waffling about from her! What a high bar she sets for the majority of celebrities of this day.
She was such an intelligent woman. What a special person.
I can listen to this audio over and over again, she is so wise!
One of my favorite actresses of all time. Marlene was not only beautiful and a sex symbol but also very intelligent, it clearly shows her intelligence in this interview of her outlook in life way ahead of her time and this interview from 1969 is still relevant today 50+ years later.....
This channel is so freaking amazing
"if you have any sort of intelligence you can't succumb to adoration because people adore so many things.
they also adore things that you think quite worthless, so you can't take it too seriously."
How wonderful that you continue to find such incredible interviews.
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i'm an american but i speak german. i have adhd and the philosophy braided into the user-friendliness and logical commitments of the german language are so supportive. i love listening to how ms. dietrich speaks.
Oh God, so much truth in her words. She was one wise lady.
I have always admired Marlene's honesty and wisdom. She just tells like it is. I loved this interview. Thank you for posting.
What a wonderful find this video is. And the perfectly smooth, dry words of Dietrich not only demonstrate a powerful intelect, they makes us consider how much Europe (the authentic Europe to which she refers to) has been taken over by Americanisation and what I call the 'Ikea Culture'. Real style is also an ethic, and this true European style which we used to possess (no longer, sadly) is something I think we should go back to.
I didn’t expect this interview to be about her SLAUGHTERING the Americans! 😂
And she was also very very right about everything she said. What a European symbol of elegance, beauty, and intelligence.
She was right about Americans living on credit and working hard.
Wow. I've never heard her speak before as herself. What a Star. A true Legend of Cinema.
She's so wise! oh my I agree and understand what she's preaching especially that first question on adoration
Credit, no pleasure from work, unloved new possessions and calling every relationship 'love'. She knew us well before we were born.
This is the first video by your channel that I’ve ever come across, and there couldn’t have been a better first video. It’s brilliant! Keep up the good work! 👍🏼💪🏼
Wow. How wise she was. I like her temper
My icon, my idol, my teacher in many ways. Why? Just listen to this! It is amazing to "know" someone who has way better words and ways of expression for the things you've aways felt and agreed on at heart.
"entspannen" - German word for relax
Yes, but I think to really relax is a mindset on it's own. Very American as Marlene said.
Das könnte aber tatsächlich eine Wortneuschöpfung sein. Also vielleicht sogar neuer, als das Interview.
@@komentierer Ziemlich sicher, dass meine Großeltern und meine kleine Mama sich in den 60ern an Badeseen entspannt haben😅
@@leniliddy kann nur von mir und meinen Eltern reden, aber bei uns war nie die Rede von Relaxation/Entspannung, sondern eher von Genuss bzw die Freizeit am See/Meer zu genießen. Die Aktivität ist vllt die selbe, aber nicht der Grund.
I went to France three years ago and at lunch time all the chefs at the restaurants in the villages we visited stop cooking to take a break. They go back to work two hours later. They were very casual and laid back over there. Americans needed a word like relax because we don't know how to relax. We're always working toward a goal of one kind or another, or climbing the corporate ladder. People in Spain and Italy take a daily siestas.
Wow! Her perspective is amazingly relevant even fifty years later!
Marlene Dietrich skewering American Culture 😍
She did spend most of her life here, and was a citizen. Skewering but loving at the same time.
in what way
How right she was
@@alexiswaller3065 she wasn't right, it was just her opinion. Some one else might look at it a different way.
@@marielaveau6362 But she is. xD Look at the beauty trends today, Society feeds women that they should STILL try to look younger for their husbands, it's ridiculous to keep piling on the creams and make-up to fight something that you cannot. Right, indeed.
¨Because America still thinks that it is a young nation...they should stop that. i think they have been young enough. They should grow up.¨ That part!
It’s so true even now haha
I am from Europe and I don't think we are so much more "grown-up" than Americans, whatever that even means in this context.
@@Chillerll Where in Europe?
@@Chillerll i guess its because of globalization, we are not really different in other countries. Before - we were, now... I don't think so, mostly we are the same.
What does that even mean? Can someone explain
I saw Marlene Dietrich's Oscar trophy in one of the museums in Washington DC. Powerful 'cinema' moment . She is the most beautiful person to have ever been filmed
She was a truly wise woman.
“when they set up schools they told everyone texas was the capital of the united states” that’s the most texan thing i’ve heard
I think she is the MOST intelligent star and actress of Hollywood
These videos are really awesome. These conversations are so interesting!
This is the best interview we need more of here mentality in 2022
This was a real treat to listen to the legendary Marlene Dietrich. She was from Germany but let go of all ties with her homeland with the coming of WWII. She entertained America and all its allies all over the world.
No. She left in 1930, because Hollywood offered more money. And later, after the war, most of us didn't want her anymore. So she moved to Paris. Only her death and her last wish were respected and she was burried in Berlin.
"possession do not make you happy"
Yas
Possession of a house does lol. But true.
As soon as you got something, youre going to want another something. It's goes on and on.
@@oWoUwUoWoUwU not house, i guess "home". Place, u can call home. It makes you happy.
(Sorry for my English)
Nice hair 👌👌
Classy lady.
God she's so on point about the USA and its youth complex
Interesting on how she contradicts Grace Kelly (whose interview was four years earlier) on the European's view on America's age.
totally. Grace Kelly had an entire different delivery, upright, formal, etc.. where as Dietrich has a harshness and sincerity more similar to Bette Davis.
I think Marlene's was way more accurate and honest :)
This made me smile . What a brilliant and charmingly inspiring person.
Much smarter then contemporary actors. In fact i have not seen this level of practical wisdom at all in a actor.
a jeff buckley interview would be sick my friends, bless
"He drinks because he likes to drink" It's about time someone figured that one out.
Pretty ironic her saying the one great love is mother love. Ask her daughter about that claim.
A parent can live their child with all their heart, but the child feels unloved just the same. It's about the era and families. I grew up in an English family. I was loved but they were cold and didn't show emotion. So a child can grow up to feel unloved because they weren't shown the love they think they should have had. Food and shelter is love as well.
@@michellebadham9353 Well, yes, you're right that some of it is societal, but to be fair there is such a thing as emotional neglect even when one's needs are taken care of, and that is regardless of one's culture.
You could have a perfect provider; they could give you food, shelter, physical warmth, material matters. But there is one very important thing that children need, and that is to be heard and given emotional attention, to feel like their thoughts and feelings are valid and don't need to be rewired or hidden away to 'make people happy' or to be accepted, or even to survive.
A parent could do everything in their power and they can get that one thing 'wrong' - and it wouldn't always be a terrible blame or black mark, because many are trying their best and usually it's because the parents themselves weren't given the same emotional attention as children, and as adults they aren't confident or even aware of these needs, or are overcorrecting their parents' style, maybe they're too dismissive or too strict.
Maybe some children end up needing to parent their parents, or parent their siblings and thus have to be 'mature and reliable'. Maybe it's the tiny things like being told that their behavior is unreasonable, or out of control, without ever having their thoughts heard. Maybe there's a language barrier and it's hard for a parent to connect and so they appease the kid however they can, even if it comes out tone deaf compared to the issues they're really going through - that one I can share from experience.
So they start thinking "okay, so this behavior is bad and causes problems, so I won't do it anymore", even if that behavior is as simple as speaking their mind, or expressing their emotions, and they carry that into adulthood in unhealthy ways; anxiety, people-pleasing, feelings of emptiness or identity confusion, lack of purpose, self-sacrifice or perceiving others as more valuable than yourself, anything that harkens back to this idea of "I've learned this doesn't help, so I'm throwing it away and doing something that does help".
Emotional neglect in otherwise reasonable conditions is invisible and adults who face it rarely realize how deeply it has impacted them, and rarely realize they're at risk of contributing to this cycle of emotional neglect when they have their own kids.
Some families seem cold in their tone or behavior, but can surprise you by making sure you're heard. But it's far more likely that the coldness manifests in the exact opposite way, and that every other token of love pales in comparison, even if that love exists and we recognize and acknowledge it as adults, there is still that part of us from when we were children that remains upset or strung out. And our parents as well as us would know none the wiser, because we don't actually know anything different.
And you believe her daughter's claim, Tsk tsk. People can say whatever they want once a person goes, but if life with Marlene was so unbearable, why didn't she just leave? She was of age by that time with kids, and it's not like Marlene had chains lmaoo. Wake up. But I'll tell you why, because Marlene was her source of income well into Marlene's 70's.
And to keep the money going, She wrote a false book about Marlene, a false imagery of what her mother was.
So who's really the rotten one now?
Her last word before dying was Maria. She certainly loved her daughter and her grandson.
But I disagree on her with the leisure part- The British pride themselves on their teatime relaxation- something we Indians foolishly emulated haha. And the Spanish love their siesta!
Siesta has more to do with heat to be honest
Italians also have a time after lunch where they relax or nap for an hour before returning to work. It was common in Spain as well, not much to do with heat there as in Mexico.
Cool Interview !MARLENE FOREVER !!
She was always earthy and kind when she spoke. One of a kind.
I could literally listen to her all day
"Do my duty That's ALL" Yes I Agree...Thank You for sharing... ✝✝✝EternalDeeS👁🌼💫💗🕯...Blessings sending Unconditional LoveLight Bubbles to ALL 🌎
What a wise lady! I could hear her talk for days and days.
possessions do not make you happy.
This is the best one I've heard yet.
Absolute icon, because she didn't care she is an icon, and that is the most important thing.
"Possessions do not make you happy!"
Europe has become more like America regarding the addiction to youth and changing cars faster than underwear. 🤔
You think Europe was different back then?
@@Chillerll ofc it was
amazing as always
Killed it once again. Never knew she had so much insight towards age and wealth. Animation is always on, except for those blurred credit card logos. Nonetheless, still fantastic work.
Dreaming of a future David Byrne episode.
Loved this!!! So well done!!!
I fully agree with her comment on the credit system used in the US
She was ahead of her time. I do love her !!!
i LOVE THIS STUFF... WHAT A WONDERFUL ANALYZES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITHOUT EVER REALLY BEING ABOUT THEM.
THANKS! - - marv.
Marvin Gershowitz sorry but what do you mean by that last sentence. Sounds fascinating
glad I saw this again.
i'm going to post it in a couple places and hope some others get out of it what I think is in it.
Pretty much this is a critique of the USA back in the 1960s.
.... she said very cool things & mostly that our rampage still to this day is measured in 'stuff' good one week, and next the next thing that comes along.
..... She's not really critiquing - she's telling about her experiences in the usa which by this time she had gone back to Europe it seems.
..... one of the reasons to study history is to be able to understand the intent of society or who ever then acts is part of why the day ended historically some certain way... Hence, increasing your OWN Experience so you have many lives without the impossible of living 10,000 years.
Later! :)
Thanks! :)
The animation is delightful!!
Her intelligence is palpable through the screen no matter what role she plays. There is such a thing as sexy intelligence
I wish it was longer..
It's fascinating how this so neatly mirrors Grace Kelly's segment, where she talks about how it's Europe who insists on seeing the United States as a young country. It's a neat counterpoint.
such amazing elegance in her words.. and in the animation. I ❤ you PBS
thank you!
oh I love this woman! great artist and thinker.
Marlene Dietrich - immer in unseren Herzen♥️
Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß, auf Liebe eingestellt😭
I love how you drew her.
I love the way she sees things - she's very blunt and to the point, no BS
I love that when she is done with this interview, it is DONE. "Bye-bye."
Having seen most of Marlene's movies, she was an enigmatic, yet too self-aware actress. She seemed contrived and studied...but I still enjoyed some of her performances.
Marlene youre a true artist.
her analysis of America was spot on
beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful
Well spoken by an iconic individual!
This was brilliant
she is a fountain of wisdom, dear marlene... the only love is mother-love... europe does not need no relaxation...
Yoo, I'm the 10th k like and I kept going back and forth between 9.9k and 10k to see the number change 😌💅🏻
I love listening to her talk.
this is really really good
An intelligent woman! Another great video!
I love the detail of her garter!
And sure enough, America still hasn’t grown up.
So!
Fabulous! How can we hear the entire interview..?
I love her voice so much
I ❤️ your content. New sub!
Amazing, thank you!
Thank You 🎬
what an amazing person
Stable video 👍
There are in fact many words for relaxing in both german and french hahaha