Marlene Dietrich

The Life

Maria Riva

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Pegasus
04 October 2017

Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Dance & Performing arts; Biography: arts & entertainment; Gender studies: women

The 25th anniversary edition of the wildly entertaining and intimate biography of the glamorous and mysterious Marlene Dietrich, written by her daughter. Wildly entertaining, Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail.

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. Dietrich would quickly rise to stardom on the Berlin stage in the 1920's with her sharp wit and bisexual sexuality - while wearing the top hat and tails that revolutionized our concept of beauty and femininity.

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. She would stand up to the Nazis and galvanize American troops, eventually earning the Congressional Medal of Freedom. There were her artistic relationships with Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angle, Morocco, Shanghai Express), Colette, Erich Maria Remarque, Noel 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.

By: Maria Riva
Imprint: Pegasus
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 51mm
Weight: 1.214kg
ISBN: 9781681775029
ISBN 10: 1681775026
Pages: 788
Publication Date: 04 October 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maria Riva 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.

Reviews for Marlene Dietrich: The Life

Gossipy, elaborately detailed, and greatly entertaining. Riva leaves no sequin unturned. Riva has a remarkable good eye. [Her book] completes the portrait of Marlene Dietrich. Entertaining. The Dietrich image remains fabulous. Dietrich has remained, in the public mind, an alluring legend. What remains when the myth is stripped away? Dietrich wanted her daughter to write her biography. [It is] the only biography to rely on her diaries and letters.