Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories - Hardcover

Dietrich, Marlene; Filmmuseum Berlin--Deutsche Kinemathek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375405348 ISBN 13: 9780375405341

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

Synopsis

A visual biography of the legenday actress brings together four hundred photographs that chronicle the life and career of Marlene Dietrich, from her childhood in Berlin to her remarkable Hollywood career to her triumphant performance at London's Palladium, along with letters from her lovers and friends. 17,500 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Maria Riva is the author of Marlene Dietrich, a biography of her mother. She lives in Palm Springs, California, and New York.

From the Inside Flap:

rich 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375405348
• ISBN 13: 9780375405341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Naudet Jean-Jacques, Riva Maria, Sudendorf Werner