Marlene Dietrich:

A landmark biography. The full-scale, riveting, hitherto untold story of Marlene Dietrich as only her daughter, Maria Riva - from girlhood through most of her life her mother's confidant and companion - knows it and can tell it

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Main Author: Riva, Maria 1924- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Knopf 1993
Edition:1. ed.
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Summary:A landmark biography. The full-scale, riveting, hitherto untold story of Marlene Dietrich as only her daughter, Maria Riva - from girlhood through most of her life her mother's confidant and companion - knows it and can tell it
With her total recall of the detail and texture of her mother's life, she powerfully evokes a woman, a career, a world
Here is Dietrich the child - the adored Maria Magdalena - raised meticulously by a mother who knew her place as a successful tradesman's daughter in Berlin society and her duty as a good wife...the adolescent Lena, revealed in Dietrich's voluminous and emotional life-long diaries (at age seventeen: "Somebody told me I looked like a doll one wants to keep on kissing"..."I had a very big fight with Mutti
Physical Description:789 S. Ill.
ISBN:0394586921

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