She sings the show's one original number, "Joyless Street," a sort of neo-country-and-western number with music by Tony Stavick and lyrics by Mr. Quinton.

The producer Rudolph S. Joseph talks of Pabst's work on "The Joyless Street" with Greta Garbo, just before she came to America.

The Dietrich image was born in the Berlin of the 1920's, when she appeared in plays, cabaret, and film roles of varying importance (she was an extra in G. W. Pabst's 1925 "Joyless Street," which featured Greta Garbo).

Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse), directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Greta Garbo - (Germany)

The other retrospective screening is "Joyless Street," a 1925 silent film by the German director G. W. Pabst.

His grandfather, Mikhail Salkind, was one of the pioneers of silent films and produced Joyless Street (1925), featuring then-relatively-unknown Greta Garbo in her first major role.

In the rarefied world of European silent film studies, asserting that Dietrich (who always denied it) was in "Joyless Street" isn't new.

She made her screen debut in 1925's Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street), appearing alongside Greta Garbo.

She performed in G. W. Pabst's Joyless Street in 1925, Diary of a Lost Girl in 1929, and The Threepenny Opera in 1931.

Joyless Street (1925)