Marrying a Fellow Actor
But she still played the instrument, and by 1922, she got her first job playing the violin in a pit orchestra for silent films at a Berlin movie theater. She was fired, though, four weeks later. Her earliest professional stage appearances were as a chorus girl on tour with vaudeville-style entertainers in Berlin.
Marlene Dietrich and Rudolf Sieber dancing at Fefe’s Monte Carlo Nightclub in 1939. Photo by Snap / Shutterstock
Her film debut in the film The Little Napoleon in 1923, which was the same year that she met her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of Tragedy of Love. Marlene and Sieber married months later. The two had one daughter together in 1924; Marlene’s an only child, Maria. Throughout the 20s, Marlene worked on stage and in film.