Editing Marlene Dietrich (section)

=== Career beginnings ===
Dietrich's film debut was a small part in the film ''[[The Little Napoleon]]'' (1923).{{sfn|Bach|1992|p=491}} She met her future husband Rudolf Sieber on the set of ''[[Tragedy of Love]]'' in 1923. Dietrich and Sieber were married in a civil ceremony in Berlin on 17 May 1923.{{sfn|Bach|2011|p=62}} Her only child, daughter [[Maria Riva|Maria Elisabeth Sieber]], was born on 13 December 1924.{{sfn|Bach|1992|p=65}}

Dietrich continued to work on stage and in film both in Berlin and Vienna throughout the 1920s. On stage, she had roles of varying importance in [[Frank Wedekind]]'s ''[[Pandora's Box (play)|Pandora's Box]]'',{{sfn|Bach|1992|p=480}} [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]''{{sfn|Bach|1992|p=480}} and ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'',{{sfn|Bach|1992|p=482}} and [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[Back to Methuselah]]''{{sfn|Bach|1992|p=483}} and ''[[Misalliance (play)|Misalliance]]''.{{sfn|Bach|1992|p=488}} It was in musicals and revues such as ''Broadway'', ''Es Liegt in der Luft'', and ''Zwei Krawatten'', however, that she attracted the most attention. By the late 1920s, Dietrich was also playing sizable parts on screen, including roles in ''[[Café Elektric]]'' (1927), ''[[I Kiss Your Hand, Madame]]'' (1928), and ''[[The Ship of Lost Souls]]'' (1929).<ref>{{cite web|title=Ship of Lost Men (Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen)|url=https://www.amazon.com/Ship-Lost-Schiff-verlorenen-Menschen/dp/B008L1GDK6|publisher=Amazon|access-date=17 May 2013}}</ref>