They didn’t wait to see the reaction of the German cinema audience: Marlene Dietrich and the director Josef von Sternberg left Germany immediately after the premiere of her film The Blue Angel (1930) and went to Hollywood. Once there, the actress became an immediate star with her first American film Morocco (1930) – and she led the life of a star. Her husband Rudi Sieber, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship united despite having other partners, stayed behind in Germany. And in order to let him share in her life in the US and to document the childhood of their daughter Maria, who was six years old at the time, she acquired a 16mm camera and began filming her private life. About 180 minutes of footage from 1932 to 1943 have been preserved in Dietrich’s estate. The footage shows domestic scenes, parties and holidays in Antibes in the south of France. The patchwork family, which consisted of Marlene, her daughter, their respective lovers (at this point Erich Maria Remarque and Max Kolpe), Rudi Sieber and his girlfriend Tamara Matul went back to Antibes many times. Dietrich also took her camera with her to the shooting of Destry Rides Again (1939). She herself rarely appears in the footage but now and again she let her companions film, as here at the pool of her villa in Hollywood.