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MARLENE DIETRICH
The tumultuous and passionate life story of a legendary actress. The author based this biography on the substantial Marlene Dietrich archives deposited in Berlin in 1993.
Nearly 30 years after her death, the Dietrich myth has not aged a day. Josef von Sternberg, with whom she made seven classic films from The Blue Angel to The Devil is a Woman, began to forge it in the early 1930s.
A master of lighting, he stylized her beauty and created her femme fatale character, sensual and sophisticated. Following the lead of her Pygmalion, she applied her sense of perfectionism to enhancing her image. Making the most of her assets face, eyes, body, voice she turned herself into an icon, a timeless Venus defying the onslaughts of age.
Marlene Dietrich embodied the liberated woman as much in her style as in her way of life. A performer with androgynous tendencies, she had a taste for masculine clothes, such as the trousers she wears in Morocco and in Blonde Venus. She exercised that same freedom in her relationships to both the men including Jean Gabin and the women she encountered in her life.
Blonde Venus also represents a strong political symbol. Incarnation of the spirit of resistance to Nazism, Marlene had a troubled relationship with Germany, which took a long time to forgive her for wearing the American uniform during the war. Yet her attachment to Berlin remained intact. It was the place where she was born, spent her youth, started her career, found success and her first loves. She breathed the air of the great Berlin of the 1920s and personified its spirit and nostalgia. Wasn't one of the songs from her repertoire entitled I still have a suitcase in Berlin?
A renowned specialist on Germany and Austria-Hungary, professor emeritus at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, JEAN-PAUL BLED has published numerous books, including François-Joseph (Franz Joseph)
Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche (Maria Theresa of Austria) (both at Fayard), Bismarck and Les Hommes d'Hitler (Hitler's Men) (both at Perrin).
A master of lighting, he stylized her beauty and created her femme fatale character, sensual and sophisticated. Following the lead of her Pygmalion, she applied her sense of perfectionism to enhancing her image. Making the most of her assets face, eyes, body, voice she turned herself into an icon, a timeless Venus defying the onslaughts of age.
Marlene Dietrich embodied the liberated woman as much in her style as in her way of life. A performer with androgynous tendencies, she had a taste for masculine clothes, such as the trousers she wears in Morocco and in Blonde Venus. She exercised that same freedom in her relationships to both the men including Jean Gabin and the women she encountered in her life.
Blonde Venus also represents a strong political symbol. Incarnation of the spirit of resistance to Nazism, Marlene had a troubled relationship with Germany, which took a long time to forgive her for wearing the American uniform during the war. Yet her attachment to Berlin remained intact. It was the place where she was born, spent her youth, started her career, found success and her first loves. She breathed the air of the great Berlin of the 1920s and personified its spirit and nostalgia. Wasn't one of the songs from her repertoire entitled I still have a suitcase in Berlin?
A renowned specialist on Germany and Austria-Hungary, professor emeritus at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, JEAN-PAUL BLED has published numerous books, including François-Joseph (Franz Joseph)
Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche (Maria Theresa of Austria) (both at Fayard), Bismarck and Les Hommes d'Hitler (Hitler's Men) (both at Perrin).
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Published 2019-02-01 by Perrin |