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 | | Marie Magdalena Dietrich was born Dec. 27, 1901, in the Berlin suburb of Schöneberg, Germany, the second daughter of a Prussian policeman, Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, and Wilhelmina Elizabeth Josephine Felsing. |
 | | Dietrich, who early on was fascinated by the cinema, took violin lessons during her teens, eventually having her first affair at age 16 with the music teacher. |
 | | Dietrich was something of a study in duality—she was decidedly egotistic, yet she could be self-deprecating on occasion, such as the time years later when she told her neighbor, actor Van Johnson, “I’m a hausfrau, a cook—not that sequined clown you see on the stage.” |
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