Marlene
Dietrich was born on December 29, 1904, as Mary
Magdalene Von Losch, in Berlin, Germany. In 1932,
she made a movie in the United States under contract
to Paramount Pictures. She took the oath of United
States citizenship in Los Angeles. In 1942, Marlene
Dietrich received notice from the Internal Revenue
Service that she owed them money and she needed
to make arrangements to pay them or they would be
forced to take action against her. During June and
July of 1943, she toured the Midwest in connection
with the Treasury Department's War Bond sales. She
was married to a German citizen, and had a daughter
by him. They accompanied her to New York where the
husband stayed most of the time, while Dietrich
lived in Los Angeles. Ms. Dietrich was the victim
of an extortion attempt in 1940, and was also threatened
with kidnaping along with another actress from the
same film studio.
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