Dietrich

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DIETRICH
ALEXANDER WALKER
In today's world of instantly manufactured celebrities, Marlene Dietrich stands almost alone. She has been a legend for over fifty years —the quintessential embodiment of cool, elegant, ambiguously erotic glamour. In this visually stunning book, Alexander Walker gives an authoritative and entertaining account of how that legend grew, from the iemme latale of The Blue Angel to the svelte nightclub entertainer of Las Vegas. Dietrich is not only one of the most extraordinary women the movies created; she is also a personality who has exercised her spell as powerfully off screen


Alexander Walker tells Dietrich's story from the vantage point of a longtime film critic, broadcaster, and biographer. His aim has been "to reinterpret Dietrich in human terms" and to reassess her talents against the backdrop of the times in which she exercised them. The result is a human story, a critical study, and a piece of social history.
Complementing the text are one... Tovább

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DIETRICH
ALEXANDER WALKER
In today's world of instantly manufactured celebrities, Marlene Dietrich stands almost alone. She has been a legend for over fifty years —the quintessential embodiment of cool, elegant, ambiguously erotic glamour. In this visually stunning book, Alexander Walker gives an authoritative and entertaining account of how that legend grew, from the iemme latale of The Blue Angel to the svelte nightclub entertainer of Las Vegas. Dietrich is not only one of the most extraordinary women the movies created; she is also a personality who has exercised her spell as powerfully off screen


Alexander Walker tells Dietrich's story from the vantage point of a longtime film critic, broadcaster, and biographer. His aim has been "to reinterpret Dietrich in human terms" and to reassess her talents against the backdrop of the times in which she exercised them. The result is a human story, a critical study, and a piece of social history.
Complementing the text are one hundred and eighty five photographs from the unique Kobal Collection and other sources, many of them previously unpublished in book form. The illustrations document Dietrich's life from childhood onwards, and range from informal snapshots to location stills and portraits by the outstanding Hollywood studio photographers of the 1930s and 1940s. Here are the famous legs provocatively displayed in her Berlin apartment, the mysterious Shanghai Lily gazing adoringly at Clive Brook from her compartment window on the Shanghai Express, the brazen Frenchy being doused with a bucket of water in Destry Rides Again, the habitually trousered star hobnobbing with the Hollywood greats, and the indefatigable entertainer mixing with the troops during World War II—in short, Dietrich in all moods and all seasons.
With 185 illustrations
On the jacket: (iraní) Studio portrait by Scotty Welbourne, 1940; (bac/c) in Das Scfi/ff der verlorenen Menschen, 1929.
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