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Gwyneth Paltrow is set to play Marlene Dietrich, the Hollywood legend known for her louche nightclub lifestyle.
The German actress was known for her dependence on drink and drugs, plus a string of affairs with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner and John Wayne.
Paltrow will take the lead acting and producing role in a BBC drama of Dietrich's life written by Andrew Davies.
Davies said his script would start at the time of The Blue Angel, Dietrich's breakthrough film in 1930 that brought her a Hollywood contract and a new life in America.
"I'm concentrating on her from that period into the war and the 1950s," Times Online quoted Davies as saying.
