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Author: David Bret
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe approved biography of film star Marlene Dietrich, derived from a series of interviews with the author. It is illustrated with rare photographs.
Author: David Bret
Publisher: Isis
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780753196274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last years of her life, Marlene Dietrich enjoyed a close friendship with David Bret. This book -- the only biography of Dietrich to have been written with her full approval and complemented by her own words -- is the result of that friendship. In a remarkable series of candid interviews, the last, just two days before her death on 6 May 1992, we are presented with a Dietrich far removed from the images she conveyed in her films.
Author: David Bret
Publisher:
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780753196267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last years of her life, Marlene Dietrich enjoyed a close friendship with David Bret. This book -- the only biography of Dietrich to have been written with her full approval and complemented by her own words -- is the result of that friendship. In a remarkable series of candid interviews, the last, just two days before her death on 6 May 1992, we are presented with a Dietrich far removed from the images she conveyed in her films.
Author: Marlene Dietrich
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky+ORM
Published: 2022-08-16
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0813196000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Steven Bach
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2013-11-30
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 1452929971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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: Marlene Dietrich
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780297795360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maria Riva
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781643130293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWildly 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: Nadia Hassani
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780781810579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book goes beyond the sauerkraut and knackwurst stereotype to unveil the often overlooked diversity of German cuisine. 170 regional recipes range from classic dishes, such as spaetzle with cheese and sauerbraten to forgotten delicacies like Westfalian pumpernickel pudding. Numerous profiles, anecdotes, and food lore complete the book.
Author: David Bret
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Marlene-My Friend' includes a series of candid interviews, the last just two days before her death on 6 May 1992 and reveals a Dietrich far removed from the images she conveyed in such films as Dishonoured, Destry Rides Again and, of course, The Blue Angel, the vehicle which precipitated her to international acclaim.
Author: Karin Wieland
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 1631490966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) Named of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and the Boston Globe 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).
