{"product_id":"marlene-dietrich-9781681775029","title":"Marlene Dietrich","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the landmark biography that tells the full-scale, riveting, and untold story of Marlene Dietrich.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWildly 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 Dietrich's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDietrich would quickly rise to stardom on the Berlin stage in the 1920s with her sharp wit and bisexuality-wearing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Riva herself remembers, \"At age three, I knew quite definitely that I didn't 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDietrich 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 (\u003cem\u003eThe Blue Angel, Morocco, Shanghai Express\u003c\/em\u003e), Colette, Erich Maria Remarque, Noël 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Riva\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Berlin in 1924 and is the only child of Marlene Dietrich. Maria performed in Germany and Italy as part of a USO troupe during World War II and taught acting at Fordham University upon her return to the United States. She has performed on Broadway, radio, television, and film and has been nominated for an Emmy. Maria continues an active life in California and spends time visiting her sons and grandchildren.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50922040754450,"sku":"9781681775029","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e6f8845-c3c9-4c6f-80be-d0a8f3af8020.jpg?v=1738925028","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/marlene-dietrich-9781681775029","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}