{"product_id":"marlene-dietrich-the-life-9781681775029","title":"Marlene Dietrich: The Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the landmark biography that tells the full-scale  riveting  and untold story of Marlene Dietrich. Wildly entertaining  Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail  evoking Dietrich the woman  her legendary career  and her world. Opening with Dietrichs childhood in Berlin  we meet an energetic  disciplined  and ambitious young actress  whose own mother equated the stage with a world of vagabonds and thieves. Dietrich would quickly rise to stardom on the Berlin stage in the 1920s with her sharp wit and bisexualitywearing the top hat and tails that revolutionized our concept of beauty and femininity. She would play vulgarity but not become in; startle the world but still maintain the aloofness of an aristocrat. As Riva herself remembers  At age three  I knew quite definitely that I didnt have a mother  I belonged to a queen. Marlene Dietrich comes alive in these pages in all of her incarnations: as muse  artistic collaborator  bonafide movie star  box-office poison  lover  wife  and mother. Dietrich would stand up to the Nazis and galvanize American troops  eventually earning the Congressional Medal of Freedom. There were her rich artistic relationships with Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel  Morocco  Shanghai Express)  Colette  Erich Maria Remarque  Nol Coward and Cole Porter  and her heady romances. In her final years  she would make herself visibly invisible  devoting herself to the immortality of her legend. Maria Rivas biography of her mother has the depth  range  and resonance of a novel and captures the conviction and passion of its remarkable subject. B\u0026amp;W photographs throughout\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665887682613,"sku":"ByrdShop_1681775026","price":108.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781681775029.jpg?v=1782412810","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/marlene-dietrich-the-life-9781681775029","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}