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In 2017, ElektroCouture built a dress designed by this actor covered in LED crystals. A Smithsonian exhibition is titled for this actor’s claim, “I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.” Marilyn Monroe’s dress for JFK’s birthday was a close copy of a dress this actor wore during her 1950s Las Vegas residency. This Dior superfan used a cold reading technique she learned from Orson Welles on her highly popular USO tours. In a pre-code film, this actor performs “When Love Dies” in a (*) men’s tuxedo and kisses a female patron. Heinrich Mann’s novel Professor Filth was adapted into a 1930 film in which this actor plays the cabaret singer Lola Lola. For 10 points, what German-born star of Morocco began a long collaboration with Josef von Sternberg on The Blue Angel? ■END■
ANSWER: Marlene Dietrich
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