Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories - Softcover

Jean-Jacques Naudet; Maria Riva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500510717 ISBN 13: 9780500510711

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2001

Synopsis

Marlene Dietrich never threw anything away, from her good-luck black rag doll to the letters she received from her lovers. She kept every article of clothing made for her by the great French couturiers and Hollywood costume designers. After Dietrich's death, the articles were gathered together: 25,000 objects and 18,000 images. The major pieces of Dietrich's vast collection were assembled in an archive and given to the Film Museum Berlin, and are now on permanent exhibition there. This book brings together 370 photographs from her own collection as ell as photographs taken of her fabulous dresses, accessories, Vuitton trunks, along with letters from lovers and friends (among them Ernest Hemingway, Jean Cocteau, William Randolph Hearst and Douglas Fairbanks Jr).

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: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0500510717
• ISBN 13: 9780500510711
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304