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1) Marlene
Series
Publisher
DTG Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A film portrait of actress Marlene Dietrich.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Marlene Dietrich was an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe. In a grand and sweeping biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on this singular star, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth. Based on six years of meticulous research and hundreds of interviews - including conversations with Dietrich - this is...
3) Marlene
Author
Language
English
Description
"A lush, biographical novel of one of the most glamorous legends of Hollywood's golden age, Marlene Dietrich. From the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the film studios of Hollywood to the devastation of post-war Germany, Marlene reveals the inner life of a woman of grit, Glamour, and ambition who defied convention, seduced the world, and forged her own path." --
9) Marlene
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fascinating self-portrait of one of the greatest entertainers of Hollywood's golden age
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...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marlene Dietrich began her career in her native Berlin as a model, then as a stage and screen actress during the silent era, and became a star with the international success "The Blue Angel." Then, under the watchful eye of director and mentor Josef von Sternberg, she became one of the brightest stars in Hollywood. Charlotte Chandler, who spoke with Dietrich in her Paris apartment in the mid-1970s, relies extensively on the star's own words to reveal...
13) Marlene Dietrich
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the landmark biography that tells the full-scale, riveting, and untold story of Marlene Dietrich.
Wildly entertaining, Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail, evoking Dietrich the woman, her legendary career, and her world. 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star, playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Leni Riefenstahl and Marlene Dietrich both came of age in Weimar Berlin, a time of great political ferment. Both women seized upon the revolutionary energy of the 1920s, seeking careers on the stage and in film. In the 1930s, Riefenstahl became the official filmmaker of the Third Reich, a progenitor of fascist symbolism. Dietrich's slender and androgynous beauty made her a fashion icon. Both women had their grand passions, but neither abandoned ambition...
