Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend
Reveals the personal life of the legendary film and stage star, describes her unique qualities as a movie star, and looks at her major film roles
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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 scene 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.
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