Happy Birthday to Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 — May 6, 1992)
“She is brave, beautiful, loyal, kind and generous… She has an honesty and a comic and tragic sense of life that never let her be truly happy unless she loves. When she loves she can joke about it; but it is gallows humor. If she had nothing more than her voice she could break your heart with it. But she has that beautiful body and the timeless loveliness of her face. It makes no difference how she breaks your heart if she is there to mend it… I know that every time I have seen Marlene Dietrich ever, it has done something to my heart and made me happy. If this makes her mysterious then it is a fine mystery. It is a mystery we have known about for a long time.”
— Ernest Hemingway, LIFE Magazine, August 18, 1952