- Throughout her career, Marianne Simson was close to the Nazi regime and was rumored to be one of Joseph Goebbels' many mistresses.
- When the war ended, she was imprisonment by the Russians after having accused an Army major who was later arrested by the Gestapo.
- She didn't resume her career after the war but was still active as a dance choreographer in the theater.
- Marianne Simson debuted on stage in 1935 as a dancer the Nollendorfplatz Theater, before appearing at the Berlin city opera. The same year she made her film debut with "Friesennot".
- Her brother was Helmut Simson, who later served as mayor of Wolfsburg.
- Following the Germany's capitulation, Simson was arrested by the Soviet NKVD and placed in a series of detention camps. She was subsequently received an eight years prison sentence, but was eventually released for good conduct in 1952: She then moved to West Germany.
- In 1944. she allegedly reported to the Gestapo an army major claiming he had expressed his support for a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- She worked as a choreographer in some stage productions, and married the theatre director Wilhelm List Diehl.
- Originally trained as a ballerina, she made her screen debut in Frisions in Distress (1935) and went on to appear in another seventeen films over the next decade, generally in supporting roles.
- She was born in Berlin, the daughter of an insurance clerk named John Edward Simson.
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