Marlene Dietrich at age five, January 1, 1906.
Marlene Dietrich with Josef (“Jo”) von Sternberg in Berlin, 1928.
Marlene Dietrich, actress Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl at Berlin Ball, 1928.
Still from the film The Blue Angel (1929; director: Josef von Sternberg) with Marlene Dietrich and Rosa Valetti.
Marlene Dietrich poses with her husband, Rudolf Sieber, and their daughter, Maria, in Hollywood, 1931.
Leni Riefenstahl meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1934.
Leni Riefenstahl photographed by Martin Munkacsi on a shoot that also produced Munkacsi’s cover for Time in 1936.
Opening of the 1936 Olympic Games by Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympic Stadium. On the balcony, from left: Werner von Blomberg, Rudolf Hess, William Frick, Count Henry de Baillet-Latour, Adolf Hitler, unknown, Theodor Lewald, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Leni Riefenstahl.
Leni Riefenstahl at the camera, 1930s.
Marlene Dietrich, 1942.
Marlene Dietrich with French actor Jean Gabin at the restaurant and nightclub Ciro’s, Los Angeles, California, November 15, 1941.
Marlene Dietrich greets veterans on the Monticello after the ship docked in New York City on July 20, 1945.
Leni Riefenstahl and her lawyer before the district court in Munich, November 25, 1949.
Leni Riefenstahl, at the age of seventy-six, on a submarine adventure in the Caribbean Sea to make a series of photographs, August 2, 1979.