Marlene Dietrich will be honoured posthumously in her native Berlin when she becomes the first person to land a star on Germany's new Walk of Fame.
The actress became a U.S. citizen after moving across the Atlantic and finding fame in the 1930's, but she will be immortalised in her birthplace on Thursday (11Feb10) as part of the Berlin Film Festival celebrations.
Festival director Dieter Kosslick and Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit will unveil the star, which will be placed near the city's film museum on Potsdamer Strasse.
Dietrich, who died in 1992 at the age of 90, will be the first of 40 honorees to be remembered on the Walk of Fame. The remaining stars will be revealed this summer (10).
Marlene Dietrich remains one of Germany's most successful and best loved stars who broke out of her native country to enjoy major success in American cinema.
She made her big screen debut in 1922 in So sind de Manner and over the next couple of years her roles grew as she juggled film and theatre roles. But it was her role as Lola Lola in The Blue Angel that was to be her breakthrough.
She became one of the highest paid actresses of the era and is considered for of the greatest female stars of all time.