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==Personal life== [[File:Het echtpaar in hun woonkamer in de villa in Porto Ronco. Erich Maria Remarque z, Bestanddeelnr 254-4747.jpg|thumb|Remarque and Paulette Goddard in Ronco, Switzerland, 1961]] Remarque's first marriage was to the actress Ilse Jutta Zambona in 1925.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm|title=Erich Maria Remarque|website=Books and Writers|first=Petri|last=Liukkonen|publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library|location=Finland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801173035/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm|archive-date=1 August 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> The marriage was stormy, and unfaithful on both sides. Remarque and Zambona divorced in 1930, but in 1933 they fled together to Switzerland.<ref>Taylor, Marvin J. [http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/exhibits/remarque/documents/bio6.html ''The life and writings of Erich Maria Remarque''], New York: Fales Library, New York University, 2011; accessed 29 July 2012.</ref> In 1938, they remarried, to prevent her from being forced to return to Germany, and in 1939 they emigrated to the United States, where they both became naturalized citizens in 1947.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bloom|first=Harold|chapter=Chronology|title=Modern Critical Interpretations: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers|year=2001|page=157}}</ref> They divorced again on 20 May 1957, this time for good. Ilse Remarque died on 25 June 1975. During the 1930s, Remarque had relationships with Austrian actress [[Hedy Lamarr]], Mexican actress [[Dolores del Río]],<ref>[http://latinasdeayer.blogspot.mx/2012/04/latinos-en-hollywood-dolores-del-rio.html ''Latins in Hollywood: Dolores del Río''], latinasdeayer.blogspot.mx; accessed 24 August 2017.</ref> and German actress [[Marlene Dietrich]].<ref>Connolly, Kate. [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/apr/18/culturaltrips.germany "Marlene and the wall"], ''The Guardian'', 18 April 2002.</ref> The affair with Dietrich began in September 1937, when they met on the Lido while in [[Venice]] for the [[Venice Film Festival|film festival]], and continued until at least 1940, maintained mostly by way of letters, telegrams and telephone calls. A selection of their letters was published in 2003 in the book {{lang|de|Sag mir, daß du mich liebst}} ("Tell Me That You Love Me")<ref>{{cite book |editor1=Fuld, Werner |editor2=Thomas F. Schneider |title=Dass Du Mich Liebst: Erich Maria Remarque — Marlene Dietrich Zeugnisse einer Leidenschaft |lang=de |trans-title=Tell Me That You Love Me: Erich Maria Remarque-Marlene Dietrich. Evidence of a Passion |place=Koln |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |year=2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/marlene-dietrich-und-remarque-madonna-meines-blutes-a-149892.html |title=Marlene Dietrich und Remarque: "Madonna meines Blutes" |lang=de |author=Susanne Weingarten |newspaper=Der Spiegel |date=13 August 2001}}</ref> and then in the 2011 play ''Puma''.<ref>Jones, Kenneth. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/147946-Marlene-Dietrich-Is-Focus-of-Puma-a-NJ-Rep-World-Premiere-Starting-Feb-24 "Marlene Dietrich is Focus of Puma, a NJ Rep World Premiere Starting Feb. 24"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224070227/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/147946-Marlene-Dietrich-Is-Focus-of-Puma-a-NJ-Rep-World-Premiere-Starting-Feb-24 |date=24 February 2013 }}, Playbill.com, 24 February 2011; accessed 29 July 2012.</ref> Remarque married actress [[Paulette Goddard]] in 1958.<ref>{{cite news |last1=James |first1=Caryn |title=BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Made for Each Other, and Unfortunately So |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/17/books/books-of-the-times-made-for-each-other-and-unfortunately-so.html |access-date=29 September 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=17 August 1995 |pages=16}}</ref>
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