Marlene Dietrich

Screen legend and cabaret voice — Piaf's friend and the witness at her 1952 wedding; Paris claimed her at the end, and Montmartre holds her grave's flowers each year.

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Lived: 1901–1992
Born: 1901
Died: 1992
Nationality: German-American
Roles: ActorSinger

People they knew

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Édith Piaf

Singer
Actor

Met · 1948

Close friends from Piaf's first American years — Dietrich stood witness at her 1952 wedding to Jacques Pills, and the two were photographed together across a decade of tours.

— Encyclopaedia Britannica — Édith Piaf

Charles Boyer

Actor

Collaborated with · 1936

Boyer and Dietrich starred opposite one another in The Garden of Allah (1936).

— Boyer, Charles (1899–1978)

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