What was the name of the song made most famous during World War II by actress/chanteuse Marlene Dietrich ?

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich, 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-born American actress and singer. Her career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.

Ms. Dietrich emigrated to the U.S. in 1930 and had a stellar career in motion pictures, notably "Desire" (1936) with Gary Cooper, "The Spoilers" with John Wayne, and dozens of other successful films.

In 1944, the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) initiated the Musak project, musical propaganda broadcasts designed to demoralize enemy soldiers. Dietrich, the only performer who was made aware that her recordings would be for OSS use, recorded a number of songs in German for the project, including "Lili Marleen", a favorite of soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

A song about a young German soldier's love for a "street girl":

"Underneath the lantern

By the barrack gate

Darling I remember

The way you used to wait

'Twas there that you whispered tenderly

That you loved me

You'd always be

My Lili of the lamplight

My own Lili Marleen"

Ms. Dietrich received the Medal of Freedom in November 1947, for her "extraordinary record entertaining troops overseas during the war". She said this was her proudest accomplishment. She was also awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her wartime work.

On 6 May 1992, Ms. Dietrich died of kidney failure at her flat in Paris at age 90.