All film enthusiasts, Berlin-junkies, and Marlene Dietrich groupies, take a 30-minute journey to the building where fabled actress, songstress, and Nazi-fighter Marlene Dietrich was born. She may well be the most famous German to date and most definitely the only one that has not one, but THREE memorial plaques outside the building she was born in. On the way there, you'll also come across the childhood home of Hildegard Knef, who called herself "Neff" during her brief stint in Hollywood, a stint which nevertheless led to her leaving her foot and fingerprints outside Grauman's Chinese. An achievement, dubious as may seem, that even Dietrich couldn't match! It just so happened, that the two of them would eventually become friends, as Dietrich took Knef under her wing after the latter's arrival in Hollywood. Along the way, encounter an edgy neighborhood, which, 100 years ago, was a working class district.
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