The Blue Angel The Life And Films Of Marlene Dietrich

Author : David Stuart Ryan
Publisher : kozmik press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Blue Angel - The Life and Films of Marlene Dietrich by David Stuart Ryan Pdf

The story of Marlene Dietrich's life is the story of the 20th century. Author David Stuart Ryan who wrote the bestselling biography 'John Lennon's Secret' explores the amazing and circuitous route that took her to Hollywood and riches. But to understand the essential Marlene it is necessary to go right back in time to the era of La Belle Epoque when a very feudal and settled order still existed in Europe. 'The Blue Angel' transports you to a glittering world that is all about to disappear in the maelstrom of world war. What emerges from the conflict is a feverish gaiety that seeks to put behind it all the suffering that has taken place. You are entering the Jazz Age and a Berlin that having suffered hyperinflation decides anything goes. The Berliner Luft - the Berlin air - is what the locals call it. This madcap atmosphere was to be recreated by a young journalist - Billy Wilder - when he made the journey to Hollywood. Indeed, the plot for his greatest film, 'Some Like It Hot', drew on his experiences in Berlin, and Billy Wilder was one of the respondents to the author when he came to write Marlene's story. Marlene's big break came when she played a vampish nightclub singer of dubious morals, not a million miles away from her own background trying to survive in a world turned upside down. 'The Blue Angel' took her to America and a carefully constructed film star image which embodies all the dazzling wealth and influence of Hollywood at its most powerful and hypnotic. Yet the more you get into the life of Marlene Dietrich, the greater the mystery becomes. Who was she really? Only now can the expert analysis of David Stuart Ryan reveal the true Marlene Dietrich, the person behind the image, the human being behind the facade. Was she indeed the blue angel?

Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 9780815410614

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Blue Angel by Donald Spoto Pdf

Marlene Dietrich's story spans Germany's cabarets, Hollywood's silver screen and beyond.

Author : David Stuart Ryan
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456465783

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The Blue Angel - The Life and Films of Marlene Dietrich by David Stuart Ryan Pdf

The story of Marlene Dietrich's life is the story of the 20th century.Author David Stuart Ryan who wrote the bestselling biography 'John Lennon's Secret' explores the amazing and circuitous route that took her to Hollywood and riches.But to understand the essential Marlene it is necessary to go right back in time to the era of La Belle Epoque when a very feudal and settled order still existed in Europe.'The Blue Angel' transports you to a glittering world that is all about to disappear in the maelstrom of world war. What emerges from the conflict is a feverish gaiety that seeks to put behind it all the suffering that has taken place.You are entering the Jazz Age and a Berlin that having suffered hyperinflation decides anything goes. The Berliner Luft - the Berlin air - is what the locals call it.This madcap atmosphere was to be recreated by a young journalist - Billy Wilder - when he made the journey to Hollywood. Indeed, the plot for his greatest film, 'Some Like It Hot', drew on his experiences in Berlin, and Billy Wilder was one of the respondents to the author when he came to write Marlene's story.Marlene's big break came when she played a vampish nightclub singer of dubious morals, not a million miles away from her own background trying to survive ina world turned upside down.'The Blue Angel' took her to America and a carefully constructed film star image which embodies all the dazzling wealth and influence of Hollywood at its mostpowerful and hypnotic.Yet the more you get into the life of Marlene Dietrich, the greater the mystery becomes. Who was she really?Only now can the expert analysis of David Stuart Ryan reveal the true Marlene Dietrich, the person behind the image, the human being behind the facade.Was she indeed the blue angel?

Author : Barbara Kosta
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857456199

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Willing Seduction by Barbara Kosta Pdf

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."

Author : Steven Bach
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,5 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.

Author : S.S. Prawer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056946059

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The Blue Angel by S.S. Prawer Pdf

Dietrich at her most iconic--a fascinating look at this masterpiece of decadance and twisted desire.

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061864902

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Blue Angel by Francine Prose Pdf

The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission “Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Deliciously risque, Blue Angel is a withering take on today's academic mores and a scathing tale that vividly shows what can happen when academic politics collides with political correctness.

Author : Karin Wieland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,6 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).

Author : Maria Riva
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 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.

Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.

Author : Marlene Dietrich
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky+ORM
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813195995

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Marlene by Marlene Dietrich Pdf

DIVA fascinating self-portrait of one of the greatest entertainers of Hollywood’s golden age /divDIV Film star. Cabaret sensation. Recording artist. Writer. Marlene Dietrich was nothing short of enchanting—and remains so as she chronicles her fabulous rise to stardom in Marlene. From her early career in Germany as a chorus girl to her breakout role as Lola in The Blue Angel to her courageous wartime tours, Dietrich recounts a life that captivates on the page just as she smoldered on the screen. She writes passionately of her friends—including Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, and Edith Piaf, among many others—and she shares memories of what she calls her greatest accomplishment: entertaining the Allied troops during World War II. A sustained expression of her bold, sophisticated style, Marlene reminds us why Dietrich remains an international icon and a true Hollywood legend. /div

Author : Homer Dickens
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000039913953

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The Complete Films of Marlene Dietrich by Homer Dickens Pdf

Author : Homer Dickens
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007008579

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The Films of Marlene Dietrich by Homer Dickens Pdf

The films are arranges chronologically according to release date (in the country of origin).

Author : Charles Silver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000008502551

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Marlene Dietrich by Charles Silver Pdf

Author : Leslie Frewin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839740114

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Blond Venus by Leslie Frewin Pdf

Blond Venus, first published in 1956, is a look at the life and work of German-American screen legend Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992). From Dietrich’s childhood in Berlin to her success in Europe and Hollywood, Blond Venus portrays largely the public life and career of Dietrich; her private life was carefully guarded, and although described in the book, would require later biographies to paint a fuller picture (including the biography prepared by her daughter, Maria Riva). Included are 23 pages of photographs and a screen discography through 1952.