Marlene Dietrich: The Life by Her Daughter
by Riva, Maria
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1681775026
- ISBN 13
- 9781681775029
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NY: Pegasus Books, 2023. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. New/New. DJ IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 1.9" H x 9.1" L x 6.1" W (2.7 lbs) 787 pages. Features: Price on Product, Dust Cover. Secure ship w/track #. 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 and thieves.
Dietrich would quickly rise to stardom on the Berlin stage in the 1920s with her sharp wit and bisexuality-wearing the top hat and tails that revolutionized our concept of beauty and femininity. She would play vulgarity but not become in; startle the world but still maintain the aloofness of an aristocrat.
As Riva herself remembers, "At age three, I knew quite definitely that I didn't have a mother, I belonged to a queen." Marlene 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.
Dietrich would stand up to the Nazis and galvanize American troops, eventually earning the Congressional Medal of Freedom. There were her rich artistic relationships with Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel, 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.
Dietrich would quickly rise to stardom on the Berlin stage in the 1920s with her sharp wit and bisexuality-wearing the top hat and tails that revolutionized our concept of beauty and femininity. She would play vulgarity but not become in; startle the world but still maintain the aloofness of an aristocrat.
As Riva herself remembers, "At age three, I knew quite definitely that I didn't have a mother, I belonged to a queen." Marlene 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.
Dietrich would stand up to the Nazis and galvanize American troops, eventually earning the Congressional Medal of Freedom. There were her rich artistic relationships with Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel, 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.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15558
- Title
- Marlene Dietrich: The Life by Her Daughter
- Author
- Riva, Maria
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1681775026
- ISBN 13
- 9781681775029
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2023
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