Steven Bach - Marlene Dietrich: Life And Legend

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Conditiegoed [vermoedelijk ongelezen exemplaar]Aantal pagina`s626Uitgavejaar1992 [1e druk]Uitgegeven doorWilliam MorrowKafthardcover met rood linnen rugStofomslagja [wit van stofomslag deels verkleurd]ISBN9780688071196Code [intern]HEEM/ZOL11 Beschrijving boekMarlene Dietrich was - and remains - the twentieth century’s supreme embodiment of erotic sophistication. When she died in May 1992, she was ‘the last goddess’ to the London Sunday Times, while The New York Times observed simply: ‘Only Dietrich. No one else came near.’Dietrich was a legend, an icon of beauty and glamour whose appeal crossed all borders, not only from Berlin to Hollywood as the great screen star, but as the great international solo stage star of her - and our - times, from Moscow to Tokyo, Paris to Warsaw, London to Broadway. She crossed borders of nationality, language, even sex, and her mystery remains as potent after her death as when she burst onto the world scenes in The Blue Angel in 1930. She has been the subject of innumerable biographies, most of which have served to perpetuate her own notoriously unreliable account of her life. The true story has remained peculiarly elusive - until now.Steven Bach’s Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend at last penetrates the enigma. Based on six years of research and writing, and two hundred interviews conducted in three languages in a dozen countries - including conversations with Dietrich herself and with her greatest director and mentor, Josef von Sternberg - Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend focuses on both the woman and the myth. Where was she born, and when? Was she really a child of the aristocracy, as she encouraged us to believe, or something quite different? Why was her education abruptly halted in 1918, and what happened during the ‘missing’ years from 1918 to 1921? Was her early career as negligible as she claimed? How much did she owe to her ‘discoverer’, Josef von Sternberg, and what was the true nature of their relationship? Or that of Dietrich and her husband, whom she rarely saw but never divorced? How was her tireless work for the Allied cause during World War II regarded by her fellow Germans, including her family? Why did she deny until her death the very existence of her sister? Above all, what motivated her throughout a career Bach calls ‘one of the most disciplined and sustained creative acts of the century’? Steven Bach gives us - at last - the definitive biography, the book that will lead to a complete appraisal of Dietrich’s life and work. In his words, Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend is ‘neither worship at the shrine nor autopsy: It is a celebration, and - very often - an act of wonder’.Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend contains over 100 illustrations, including family photographs never before seen or published, as well as a complete bibliography and the first complete and correct theater history, filmography, and discography.