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Marlene Dietrich

Maria Riva
Marlene Dietrich Book PDF

Author : Maria Riva
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643130293

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Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva Pdf

Wildly entertaining, Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail. Opening with Dietrich’s childhood in Berlin, we meet an energetic, disciplined, and ambitious young actress whose own mother equated the stage with a world of vagabonds and thieves. Dietrich would quickly rise to stardom on the Berlin stage in the 1920s with her sharp wit and bisexualality—while wearing the top hat and tails that revolutionized our concept of beauty and femininity. Dietrich comes alive in these pages in all of her incarnations: as muse, artistic collaborator, bonafide movie star, box-office poison, lover, wife, and mother. She would stand up to the Nazis and galvanize American troops, eventually earning the Congressional Medal of Freedom. There were her artistic relationships with Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angle, Morocco, Shanghai Express), Colette, Erich Maria Remarque, Noël Coward, and Cole Porter, and her heady romances. In her final years, she would make herself visibly invisible, devoting herself to the immortality of her legend. Marlene Dietrich: The Life captures this complex and astonishing woman. Maria Riva’s biography of her mother has the depth, range, and resonance of a novel and captures the conviction and passion of its remarkable subject.

Marlene Dietrich

Steven Bach
Marlene Dietrich Book PDF

Author : Steven Bach
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452929972

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Marlene Dietrich by Steven Bach Pdf

From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth surrounding Marlene Dietrich in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a singular star. Based on six years of research and hundreds of interviews—including conversations with Dietrich—this is the life story of one of the century’s greatest movie actresses and performers, an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe.

A Woman at War

J. David Riva,Guy Stern
A Woman at War Book PDF

Author : J. David Riva,Guy Stern
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 9780814332498

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A Woman at War by J. David Riva,Guy Stern Pdf

"In this collection of interviews and photographs, the many facets of Dietrich's personality and of her life during World War II are recounted by those whose lives she touched"--Front flap of jacket.

Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, and My Mother

Rita Maria Magdaleno
Marlene Dietrich Rita Hayworth and My Mother Book PDF

Author : Rita Maria Magdaleno
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816522588

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Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, and My Mother by Rita Maria Magdaleno Pdf

A memoir in verse recalls the author's return to the land of her birth, intertwining personal and public history, and bridging continents and cultures in search of family secrets.

Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

Karin Wieland
Dietrich Riefenstahl Hollywood Berlin and a Century in Two Lives Book PDF

Author : Karin Wieland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631490965

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Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives by Karin Wieland Pdf

A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2015 Magisterial in scope, this dual biography examines two complex lives that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the century’s greatest conflict. Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrich’s Berlin apartment. Coming of age at the dawn of the Weimar Republic, both sought fame in Germany’s burgeoning motion picture industry. While Dietrich’s depiction of Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel catapulted her to Hollywood stardom, Riefenstahl—who missed out on the part—insinuated herself into Hitler’s inner circle to direct groundbreaking if infamous Nazi propaganda films, like Triumph of the Will. Dietrich, who toured tirelessly with the USO, could never truly go home again; Riefenstahl could never shake her Nazi past. Acclaimed German historian Karin Wieland examines these lives within the vicious crosscurrents of a turbulent century, evoking piercing insights into "the modern era’s most difficult questions, about illusion and mass intoxication, art and truth, courage and capitulation" (New Yorker).

Marlene Dietrich's ABC's

Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich s ABC s Book PDF

Author : Marlene Dietrich
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky+ORM
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813196008

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Marlene Dietrich's ABC's by Marlene Dietrich Pdf

A collection of the icon’s surprising and heartfelt thoughts on topics A-to-Z, plus recipes and photos—a wonderfully addictive scrapbook for fans. From the wonderfully varied and witty mind of Marlene Dietrich comes an alphabetized collection of her most zany, honest, and heartfelt thoughts. Offering her take on a range of ideas, people, and items, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC is an unprecedented glimpse into one of history’s brightest and most enigmatic stars. Nothing is too small or grand for Dietrich’s unique eye. From her entry for hardware store—“I’d rather go to a hardware store than to the opera”—to her entry for egocentric—“If he is a creative artist, forgive him”—she transforms both the mundane and the mysterious into snapshots of her own spirit. Complete with photos from her vast career, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC is an unexpected and addicting treat.

Marlene

Charlotte Chandler
Marlene Book PDF

Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439188440

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Marlene by Charlotte Chandler Pdf

In Marlene, the legendary Hollywood icon is vividly brought to life, based on a series of conversations with the star herself and with others who knew her well. In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler spoke with Marlene Dietrich in Dietrich’s Paris apartment. The star’s career was all but over, but she agreed to meet because Chandler hadn’t known Dietrich earlier, “when I was young and very beautiful.” Dietrich may have been retired, but her appearance and her celebrity—her famous mystique—were as important to her as ever. Marlene Dietrich’s life is one of the most fabulous in Hollywood history. She began her career in her native Berlin as a model, then a stage and screen actress during the silent era, becoming a star with the international success The Blue Angel. Then, under the watchful eye of the director of that film, her mentor Josef von Sternberg, she came to America and became one of the brightest stars in Hollywood. She made a series of acclaimed pictures—Morocco, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, Destry Rides Again, among many others—that propelled her to international stardom. With the outbreak of World War II, the fiercely anti-Nazi Dietrich became an American citizen and entertained Allied troops on the front lines. After the war she embarked on a new career as a stage performer, and with her young music director, the gifted Burt Bacharach—whom Chandler interviewed for the book—Dietrich had an outstanding second career. Dietrich spoke candidly with Chandler about her unconventional private life: although she never divorced her husband, Rudi Sieber, she had numerous well-publicized affairs with his knowledge (and he had a longtime mistress with her approval). By the late 1970s, plagued by accidents, Dietrich had become a virtual recluse in her Paris apartment, communicating with the outside world almost entirely by telephone Marlene Dietrich lived an extraordinary life, and Marlene relies extensively on the star’s own words to reveal how intriguing and fascinating that life really was.

Willing Seduction

Barbara Kosta
Willing Seduction Book PDF

Author : Barbara Kosta
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857456199

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Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich. This fascinating cultural history of The Blue Angel provides a new interpretive framework with which to approach this classic Weimar film and suggests that discourses on mass and high culture are integral to the film's thematic and narrative structure. These discourses surface above all in the relationship between the two main characters, the cabaret entertainer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and the high school teacher Immanuel Rath (one-time Oscar winner Emil Jannings). In addition to offering insight into some of the major debates that informed the Weimar Republic, this book demonstrates that similar issues continue to shape the contemporary cultural landscape of Germany. Barbara Kosta thus also looks at Dietrich as a contemporary cultural icon and at her symbolic value since German unification and at Lola Lola's various "incarnations."

Obsession: Marlene Dietrich

Henry-Jean Servat,Pierre Passebon,Marlene, Dietrich
Obsession Marlene Dietrich Book PDF

Author : Henry-Jean Servat,Pierre Passebon,Marlene, Dietrich
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9782080203571

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Obsession: Marlene Dietrich by Henry-Jean Servat,Pierre Passebon,Marlene, Dietrich Pdf

Parisian gallery owner, antiques dealer, and style tastemaker Pierre Passebon curates his favorite portraits of Marlene Dietrich by world-class photographers in this exquisite cloth-bound volume. Featuring rare images from Pierre Passebon’s personal collection, this volume celebrates Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood’s iconic femme fatale, as immortalized by master photographers including Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Milton Greene, George Hurrell, Antony Armstrong-Jones, and others. An active participant in her photo sessions, she constructed her own unique image of charm and seduction. Dietrich’s life was devoted to glamour for over forty years: in stage performances, on screen, and in concert. The public loved her. A modern and transgressive woman, she didn’t hesitate to break the rules by dressing in menswear (she was Yves Saint Laurent’s muse for his iconic tuxedos) or by being seen in public with her husband and her lovers (both male and female). Dietrich also refused to bend to Hollywood conventions around motherhood by raising her daughter in the limelight as well. Her beauty, style, and elegance made her the archetypal femme fatale, but it was Dietrich’s unwavering confidence, gender fluidity, and firm stand against Nazism that made her a revolutionary and an icon. This volume reveals how her fascination lies not only in the way she inspired the greatest photographers and fashion designers of her time, but in how she continues to embody the essence of glamour and female independence today.

I Wish You Love

Eryk Hanut
I Wish You Love Book PDF

Author : Eryk Hanut
Publisher : Frog Limited
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1883319471

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I Wish You Love by Eryk Hanut Pdf

Recounts conversations between the actress and a young man who wrote to her on a whim after seeing her films and hearing her songs

Marlene Dietrich (Notable Bio)(Oop)

W. K. Martin
Marlene Dietrich Notable Bio Oop Book PDF

Author : W. K. Martin
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019317994

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Marlene Dietrich (Notable Bio)(Oop) by W. K. Martin Pdf

A biography of Germany's Marlene Dietrich who became a respected film actress, a beloved USO performer, and a highly popular cabaret star.

Marlene

C. W. Gortner
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Author : C. W. Gortner
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062406088

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Marlene by C. W. Gortner Pdf

A lush, dramatic biographical novel of one of the most glamorous and alluring legends of Hollywood’s golden age, Marlene Dietrich—from the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the lush film studios of Hollywood, a sweeping story of passion, glamour, ambition, art, and war from the author of Mademoiselle Chanel. Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, Maria Magdalena Dietrich dreams of a life on the stage. When a budding career as a violinist is cut short, the willful teenager vows to become a singer, trading her family’s proper, middle-class society for the free-spirited, louche world of Weimar Berlin’s cabarets and drag balls. With her sultry beauty, smoky voice, seductive silk cocktail dresses, and androgynous tailored suits, Marlene performs to packed houses and becomes entangled in a series of stormy love affairs that push the boundaries of social convention. For the beautiful, desirous Marlene, neither fame nor marriage and motherhood can cure her wanderlust. As Hitler and the Nazis rise to power, she sets sail for America. Rivaling the success of another European import, Greta Garbo, Marlene quickly becomes one of Hollywood’s leading ladies, starring with legends such as Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and Cary Grant. Desperate for her return, Hitler tries to lure her with dazzling promises. Marlene instead chooses to become an American citizen, and after her new nation is forced into World War II, she tours with the USO, performing for thousands of Allied troops in Europe and Africa. But one day she returns to Germany. Escorted by General George Patton himself, Marlene is heartbroken by the war’s devastation and the evil legacy of the Third Reich that has transformed her homeland and the family she loved. An enthralling and insightful account of this extraordinary legend, Marlene reveals the inner life of a woman of grit, glamour, and ambition who defied convention, seduced the world, and forged her own path on her own terms.

Dietrich Icon

Gerd Gemünden,Mary R. Desjardins
Dietrich Icon Book PDF

Author : Gerd Gemünden,Mary R. Desjardins
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822389675

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Dietrich Icon by Gerd Gemünden,Mary R. Desjardins Pdf

Few movie stars have meant as many things to as many different audiences as the iconic Marlene Dietrich. The actress-chanteuse had a career of some seventy years: one that included not only classical Hollywood cinema and the concert hall but also silent film in Weimar Germany, theater, musical comedy, vaudeville, army camp shows, radio, recordings, television, and even the circus. Having renounced and left Nazi Germany, assumed American citizenship, and entertained American troops, Dietrich has long been a flashpoint in Germany’s struggles over its cultural heritage. She has also figured prominently in European and American film scholarship, in studies ranging from analyses of the directors with whom she worked to theories about the ideological and psychic functions of film. Dietrich Icon, which includes essays by established and emerging film scholars, is a unique examination of the many meanings of Dietrich. Some of the essays in this collection revisit such familiar topics as Germany’s complex relationship with Dietrich, her ambiguous sexuality, her place in the lesbian archive, her star status, and her legendary legs, but with fresh critical perspective and an emphasis on historical background. Other essays establish new avenues for understanding Dietrich’s persona. Among these are a reading of Marlene Dietrich’s ABC—an eclectic autobiographical compendium containing Dietrich’s thoughts on such diverse subjects as “steak,” “Sternberg (Joseph von),” “Stravinsky,” and “stupidity”—and an argument that Dietrich manipulated her voice—through her accent, sexual innuendo, and singing—as much as her visual image in order to convey a cosmopolitan world-weariness. Still other essays consider the specter of aging that loomed over Dietrich’s career, as well as the many imitations of the Dietrich persona that have emerged since the star’s death in 1992. Contributors. Nora M. Alter, Steven Bach, Elisabeth Bronfen, Erica Carter, Mary R. Desjardins, Joseph Garncarz, Gerd Gemünden, Mary Beth Haralovich, Amelie Hastie, Lutz Koepnick, Alice A. Kuzniar, Amy Lawrence, Judith Mayne, Patrice Petro, Eric Rentschler, Gaylyn Studlar, Werner Sudendorf, Mark Williams

Marlene Dietrich

Jean-Jaques Naudet
Marlene Dietrich Book PDF

Author : Jean-Jaques Naudet
Publisher : Random House
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110273864

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Marlene Dietrich by Jean-Jaques Naudet Pdf

Marlene Dietrich never threw away anything. She kept her good-luck black rag doll (it appeared with her in The Blue Angel and followed her to dressing tables on every movie set). She kept the letters (every last one) she received from her lovers and her husband of fifty-three years. She kept every article of clothing made for her by the great French couturiers and the legendary Hollywood costume designers. She kept everything. And she believed in storage. Six storage companies, from New York to California, London, and Paris, held pieces of Miss Dietrich’s life, locked away for decades like the pieces of the life of Charles Foster Kane. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars were paid in rental fees. After Dietrich’s death, the articles were gathered together—twenty-five thousand objects and eighteen thousand images. Some were auctioned at Sotheby’s in Los Angeles. The major pieces of Dietrich’s vast collection were assembled in an archive and given to the FilmMuseum Berlin. Now, her treasures are brought together in 289 photographs from her own collection, with extended captions by her daughter, Maria Riva. We see Dietrich as a child, in velvet dress and golden ringlets...Dietrich as a young actress in Berlin...as the newly married Mrs. Rudolf Sieber, standing proudly with her husband. We see love letters and letters marking the ends of affairs. We see Dietrich in Hollywood...with Chaplin...with Fritz Lang...at the Paramount commissary...Dietrich captured in snapshots by her movie-creator, Josef von Sternberg...Dietrich as a mother. We see her at war...in never-before-published photographs of a USO tour...in uniform (tailor-made for her, of course) disembarking from a transport plane...Dietrich with the 82nd Airborne...Dietrich rolling into Germany in a U.S. tank. Here she is with her directors and fellow actors: Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Judy Garland, John Wayne, Ernst Lubitsch, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power. Here are portraits of her by Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, Milton Greene, John Engstead. And here is Marlene, shimmering, in Las Vegas, the consummate performer, and at the Palladium in London, triumphant!

Dietrich

Malene Sheppard Skærved
Dietrich Book PDF

Author : Malene Sheppard Skærved
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1904341136

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Dietrich by Malene Sheppard Skærved Pdf

A actress in Germany before the war, a frontline entertainer for the allies in the 1940’s, and later one of the world’s greatest entertainment icons. She was an artist of constant reinvention.