The last on-screen appearance by Marlene Dietrich. German press reports claimed she was paid $250,000 for two days' work.
David Bowie disliked the film. In a 1980 interview with New Music Express, he said "Oh well, we've all got to do one [bad movie] and hopefully I've done mine now."
In the book "Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin" by Tobias Rüther, he said this film was "All of my Elvis Presley movies rolled into one".
In the book "Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin" by Tobias Rüther, he said this film was "All of my Elvis Presley movies rolled into one".
Regarding her appearance in the film, Marlene Dietrich scrawled across a still of herself, "How ugly can you get?"
This film was about Berlin, shot in Berlin and financed partly by Berlin. However, none of the principal cast were from Berlin except for Marlene Dietrich, who was a native Berliner in self-imposed exile.