Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557838380 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yet Charlotte Chandler's Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography proves invaluable. "It hardly seems possible that there could be room for yet another important biography on so iconic a star as Marlene Dietrich. Chandler has again demonstrated her unparalleled ability to get major figures of Hollywood's golden age to talk about their lives with unprecedented openness." —Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
She even expressed warm feelings toward her husband's mistress. She spoke candidly with Chandler about her unconventional marriage; she and her husband both had affairs, each with the other's consent. After the war, she embarked on a new, outstanding second career as a stage performer. The star's career was all but over, but she agreed to meet because Chandler hadn't known her earlier, "when Dietrich was young and very beautiful." Marlene is further enriched by Chandler's interviews with others who knew Dietrich well, including Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Burt Bacharach. In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler interviewed the reclusive actress in Dietrich's Paris apartment. In Marlene , Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich is vividly brought to life. (Applause Books). Chandler relates how Dietrich began her career in her native Berlin as a model, then a stage and screen actress during the silent era, becoming a star with The Blue Angel , then moving on to bec
She is a member of the board of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and lives in New York City. . Charlotte Chandler is the author of several biographies of actors and directors, including Groucho Marx, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, and Mae West, all of whom she interviewed extensively
"Silly, nonsense, a bad form of Wikipedia" according to CarNut. Quotes that are doubtful, facts that are all personal memory (and proved wrong, many of them, long ago) - repeated again and again - the book was a scrap book of words that shed, in the end, no new light on the wonderful Marlene and, in fact, allowed silly nonsense to supplant fact. The truth is much better than this book. The word on the Internet is that the so-called interviews with Marlene never happened and that the author made them all up from other people's material.. Did Simon & Schuster used to be a reputable house? When even David Bret pans your book, you know you are pretty far down on the food chain. But--I never thought I would say this!--I agree with Mr. Bret. Charlotte Chandler has never interviewed any of her subjects--I doubt she has seen most of their films. Yet S&S prints book after book by her, not bothered in the least by the fact that they are 100% baloney. Naive writers will be using these books as factual sources in years to come The saints weep.. Not Worthy of Marlene. Book Lover When I heard about a biography of Marlene Dietrich, I was thrilled and ready to be immersed in her life and timesand the Golden Age of Hollywood. What a disappointment! The book is essentially a compendium of little stories which Dietrich supposedly relates to the author Charlotte Chandler. They're disorganized, confusing, a messy bore! Shame on Ms. Chandler--a wonderful, larger-than-life, feisty, legendary actress like Dietrich deserves a serious, properly written and researched biography ornothing at all. T