For Decades there was this rumour that Marlene Dietrich played a minor role in this film. A dark-haired woman waiting in the butcher shop line is often mistaken for Marlene.
A close-up of "Marlene"?
But it is actually the German actress Hertha von Walther. She had a much larger role in the original uncut version of the film.
Marlene, Asta Nielsen and Greta.
This is the scene popularly believed to feature Marlene Dietrich as one of the extras in line with Garbo and Asta Nielsen.
Marlene as she looked around Joyless Street.
When the film was filmed, Dietrich was at home nursing her threemonth - old daughter, Maria.
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