From the Vault - Marlene Dietrich
Who Did What Now
Katie Charlwood
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Marlene Dietrich was a Hollywood star who wanted to be alone, but before that she was a sex symbol who combatted gender norms and wanted to poison the leader of the Third Reich with a poison hair pin, which, could have worked, we maybe should have let her try...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast, that is not your history class, me your host katie charlewood history |
| 0:23.5 | harlot and reader of books here is a little oldie from the vault marlina dittre because i |
| 0:33.4 | want to be alone now just to warn everyone, my voice is gone. I have a very husky, sexy voice |
| 0:44.6 | in this episode, which is nice for some. It was less pleasant for me. I think I had to take so many |
| 0:51.7 | breaks because my voice was going away. |
| 0:54.9 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:56.9 | So, yeah. |
| 1:04.2 | But with it being a Hollywood history month, I am so glad to share this with you. |
| 1:09.1 | I bloody love Marlene Dietrich and I thought, you deserve a little bit of fun. |
| 1:15.6 | You deserve a really cool women who wanted to poison Hitler with a hatpin. |
| 1:17.1 | Because of course she did. |
| 1:25.6 | Anyway, without further ado, I do hope you will enjoy this oldie from the vault episode of Marlina Dietrich. |
| 1:31.0 | Have fun. If you are new here, this is not my usual voice. This is much sexier than my usual voice. I am sick because of course I am, |
| 1:38.2 | because I can't stay healthy for more than five minutes, but fuck it, it's fine. |
| 1:45.5 | Here we are. |
| 1:52.6 | Oh, you may notice that I speak with language more colorful than a kaleidoscope filled with the word fuck. |
| 1:54.4 | But here we are. |
| 1:59.8 | Welcome, if you don't like it, though, you might want to exit stage left. Good, now that we've separated the wheat from |
| 2:03.9 | the chaff, how are you? I hope you're doing well. Yeah, this has been, it's been a fun week, |
| 2:10.5 | it's been a busy week trying to get sort of more of the tour dates locked in. All the events |
| 2:16.3 | are going to be going up on the website, so they're going to be on there. And, yeah, it's going to be good. I'm excited. Are you excited? I'm excited. We should all be excited. But anyway, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, get your jibber-jabber. In fact, me. In fact, you, wow, well, but first, we've got to get our source on. |
| 2:36.2 | Our sources are Marlina Dietrich, Life and Legend by Stephen Buck. |
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