Dietrich's show business career largely ended on 29th September 1975, when she fell from the stage and broke a thigh bone during a performance in Sydney, Australia. The following year, her husband, Rudolf Sieber, died of cancer on 24th June 1976. Dietrich's final on-camera film appearance was a brief appearance in Just a Gigolo (1978), starring David Bowie in which she sang the title song, after this Dietrich became increasingly dependent on painkillers and alcohol and withdrew to her apartment at 12 Avenue Montaigne in Paris. She spent the final 13 years of her life mostly bedridden. On 31st December 1990 she spoke via telephone and you can hear this in the video, this would be the last time the public would ever hear from her again, On 6 May 1992, Dietrich died of kidney failure at her flat in Paris at age 90.
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