During the USO tour, she sang songs from her films, performed on a musical saw, and had a comedic “mind-reading” act taught to her by Welles. According to Dietrich, her proudest accomplishment was receiving the Medal of Freedom in 1947 for entertaining the troops overseas. While traveling in London, officials from the Nazi Party approached her with profitable contracts if she returned to Germany as a top film star in the Third Reich. Dietrich refused their offers and instead applied for United States citizenship in 1937 and returned to Paramount to star in Angel (1937). The romantic comedy was not received as well as some of her past works, so Paramount bought out the remainder of her contract.
