Marlene Dietrich: The Twilight of an Angel

Name: Marlene Dietrich: The Twilight of an Angel
Brand: Screenbound

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Marlene Dietrich was one of the Twentieth Century's most enduring icons of beauty and glamour,whose appeal crossed every nationality, belief and even sexuality. Marlene was the supreme embodiment of erotic sophistication whose death only served to make ever more alluring and mysterious. She burst onto the world scene in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel in 1930 and enjoyed a glittering film career. abandoning her native Germany for America when the Nazis put pressure on her to star in their propaganda films. But Dietrich's life was one of controversy and she was notorious for an unreliably recalling her own life story, her loves and her relationships.\n\nAfter her retirement in the late 1970s Marlene withdrew to her apartment at 12 avenue Montaigne in Paris. She spent the final eleven years of her life, mostly bedridden. a tetchy, alcoholic who was dependent on painkillers and allowed only a select few to enter her apartment. This is their story - Dietrich's daughter Maria Riva, h.