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Marlene

Author : C. W. Gortner
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062406086
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Marlene written by C. W. Gortner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush, dramatic biographical novel of one of the most glamorous and alluring legends of Hollywood’s golden age, Marlene Dietrich—from the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the lush film studios of Hollywood, a sweeping story of passion, glamour, ambition, art, and war from the author of Mademoiselle Chanel. Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, Maria Magdalena Dietrich dreams of a life on the stage. When a budding career as a violinist is cut short, the willful teenager vows to become a singer, trading her family’s proper, middle-class society for the free-spirited, louche world of Weimar Berlin’s cabarets and drag balls. With her sultry beauty, smoky voice, seductive silk cocktail dresses, and androgynous tailored suits, Marlene performs to packed houses and becomes entangled in a series of stormy love affairs that push the boundaries of social convention. For the beautiful, desirous Marlene, neither fame nor marriage and motherhood can cure her wanderlust. As Hitler and the Nazis rise to power, she sets sail for America. Rivaling the success of another European import, Greta Garbo, Marlene quickly becomes one of Hollywood’s leading ladies, starring with legends such as Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and Cary Grant. Desperate for her return, Hitler tries to lure her with dazzling promises. Marlene instead chooses to become an American citizen, and after her new nation is forced into World War II, she tours with the USO, performing for thousands of Allied troops in Europe and Africa. But one day she returns to Germany. Escorted by General George Patton himself, Marlene is heartbroken by the war’s devastation and the evil legacy of the Third Reich that has transformed her homeland and the family she loved. An enthralling and insightful account of this extraordinary legend, Marlene reveals the inner life of a woman of grit, glamour, and ambition who defied convention, seduced the world, and forged her own path on her own terms.

Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals

Author : Marlene Dumas
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 194170199X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals written by Marlene Dumas and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest from the renowned painter—Marlene Dumas’s new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery. Myths & Mortals documents a selection of new paintings—debuted in the spring of 2018 at David Zwirner, New York—ranging from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features. Several nearly ten-foot-tall paintings focus on individual figures, including a number of male and female nudes and a seemingly solemn bride, whose expression is obscured behind a floor-length veil. Like the Greek gods and goddesses, the figures in these paintings are at once larger than life and overwhelmingly human. The smaller-scale paintings—referred to by the artist as “erotic landscapes”—present a variety of fragmentary images: eyes, lips, nipples, or lovers locked in a kiss. Evident across all of these works is the artist’s uniquely sensitive treatment of the human form and her constantly evolving experimentation with color and texture. Alongside these new paintings, Dumas presents an expansive series of thirty-two works on paper originally created for a Dutch translation of William Shakespeare’s narrative poem Venus & Adonis (1593) by Hafid Bouazza (2016). Myths & Mortals is accompanied by new scholarship on the artist by Claire Messud and a text by Dumas herself.

A Woman at War

Author : J. David Riva
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814332498
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book A Woman at War written by J. David Riva and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this collection of interviews and photographs, the many facets of Dietrich's personality and of her life during World War II are recounted by those whose lives she touched"--Front flap of jacket.

Marlene Dietrich

Author : Maria Riva
Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643130293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Marlene Dietrich written by Maria Riva and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1920s with her sharp wit and bisexualality—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, Noël 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. Marlene Dietrich: The Life captures this complex and astonishing woman. Maria Riva’s biography of her mother has the depth, range, and resonance of a novel and captures the conviction and passion of its remarkable subject.

Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall

Author : Marlene Dumas
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 9781941701003
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall written by Marlene Dumas and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by Deborah Solomon in a New York Times profile as “one of contemporary art’s most compelling painters,” Marlene Dumas has continuously explored the complex range of human emotions, often probing questions of gender, race, sexuality, and economic inequality through her dramatic and at times haunting figural compositions. Originally published in 2010 on the occasion of Against the Wall, Dumas’s first solo presentation at David Zwirner in New York, this much sought-after exhibition catalogue—which sold out shortly after publication—has been reprinted to coincide with the artist’s 2014–2015 European retrospective exhibition The Image as Burden, organized by Tate Modern, London in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Throughout her career, the internationally renowned artist has continually created lyrically charged compositions that eulogize the frailties of the human body, probing issues of love and melancholy. At times her subjects are more topical, merging socio-political themes with personal experience and art-historical antecedents to reflect unique perspectives on the most salient and controversial issues facing contemporary society. The large-scale works included in Against the Wall are primarily based on media imagery and newspaper clippings documenting the conflict between Israel and Palestine, exploring the tension between the photographic documentation of reality and the constructed, imaginary space of painting. The Wall, the painting that began the series, at first appears to present a scene at the Western Wall (also known as the Wailing Wall), an important site of religious pilgrimage located in Jerusalem. However, this work is based upon a photograph from a newspaper that portrayed a group of Orthodox Jews on their way to pray at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem. Through her delicate treatment of every scene, Dumas destabilizes preconceived notions about what, in fact, is being pictured—engaging the often ambiguous nature of ideas like truth or justice. “In a sense they are my first landscape paintings,” Dumas further notes in the catalogue, “or should I say ‘territory paintings.’ That is why they are so big.” The somber color plates reproduced in the publication are given context by Dumas’s own musings, a text framed as a letter to David Zwirner in which she tries to tell him “about the ‘why’ ” of this powerful series.

Marlene

Author : Marlene Dietrich
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0813195993
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Marlene written by Marlene Dietrich and published by University Press of Kentucky+ORM. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA fascinating self-portrait of one of the greatest entertainers of Hollywood’s golden age /divDIV Film star. Cabaret sensation. Recording artist. Writer. Marlene Dietrich was nothing short of enchanting—and remains so as she chronicles her fabulous rise to stardom in Marlene. From her early career in Germany as a chorus girl to her breakout role as Lola in The Blue Angel to her courageous wartime tours, Dietrich recounts a life that captivates on the page just as she smoldered on the screen. She writes passionately of her friends—including Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, and Edith Piaf, among many others—and she shares memories of what she calls her greatest accomplishment: entertaining the Allied troops during World War II. A sustained expression of her bold, sophisticated style, Marlene reminds us why Dietrich remains an international icon and a true Hollywood legend. /div

Marlene Dietrich

Author : Steven Bach
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452929971
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Marlene Dietrich written by Steven Bach and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth surrounding Marlene Dietrich in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a singular star. Based on six years of research and hundreds of interviews—including conversations with Dietrich—this is the life story of one of the century’s greatest movie actresses and performers, an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe.

Marlene, Marlene, Queen of Mean

Author : Jane Lynch
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375982329
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Marlene, Marlene, Queen of Mean written by Jane Lynch and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glee actress Jane Lynch takes a look at bullying head-on in her first picture book. Marlene is the self-appointed queen of the playground, the sidewalk, and the school. She is small but mighty . . . intimidating! Known for her cruel ways, the little Queen of Mean has kids cowering in fear—until big Freddy stands up to her and says what everyone has been too fearful to say. In Seussian rhyme, actress Jane Lynch, clinical psychologist Lara Embry, and former children’s book editor A. E. Mikesell gently and comically depict the undoing of a bully and her efforts to reform. Tricia Tusa’s charming illustrations make the story an even more accessible conversation starter for all ages.

Lili Marlene

Author : Liel Leibovitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393065848
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Lili Marlene written by Liel Leibovitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lili Marlene', the unlikely anthem of the Second World War, cut across front lines and ideological divides. This title the stories of arrests and close calls of the three artists' of this song. It also includes recollections of soldiers who sought solace and found hope in 'Lili Marlene.

Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, and My Mother

Author : Rita Maria Magdaleno
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522583
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, and My Mother written by Rita Maria Magdaleno and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir in verse recalls the author's return to the land of her birth, intertwining personal and public history, and bridging continents and cultures in search of family secrets.

The Blue Angel - The Life and Films of Marlene Dietrich

Author : David Stuart Ryan
Publisher : kozmik press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Angel - The Life and Films of Marlene Dietrich written by David Stuart Ryan and published by kozmik press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Marlene Dietrich's life is the story of the 20th century. Author David Stuart Ryan who wrote the bestselling biography 'John Lennon's Secret' explores the amazing and circuitous route that took her to Hollywood and riches. But to understand the essential Marlene it is necessary to go right back in time to the era of La Belle Epoque when a very feudal and settled order still existed in Europe. 'The Blue Angel' transports you to a glittering world that is all about to disappear in the maelstrom of world war. What emerges from the conflict is a feverish gaiety that seeks to put behind it all the suffering that has taken place. You are entering the Jazz Age and a Berlin that having suffered hyperinflation decides anything goes. The Berliner Luft - the Berlin air - is what the locals call it. This madcap atmosphere was to be recreated by a young journalist - Billy Wilder - when he made the journey to Hollywood. Indeed, the plot for his greatest film, 'Some Like It Hot', drew on his experiences in Berlin, and Billy Wilder was one of the respondents to the author when he came to write Marlene's story. Marlene's big break came when she played a vampish nightclub singer of dubious morals, not a million miles away from her own background trying to survive in a world turned upside down. 'The Blue Angel' took her to America and a carefully constructed film star image which embodies all the dazzling wealth and influence of Hollywood at its most powerful and hypnotic. Yet the more you get into the life of Marlene Dietrich, the greater the mystery becomes. Who was she really? Only now can the expert analysis of David Stuart Ryan reveal the true Marlene Dietrich, the person behind the image, the human being behind the facade. Was she indeed the blue angel?

Marlene

Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439188446
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Marlene written by Charlotte Chandler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Marlene, the legendary Hollywood icon is vividly brought to life, based on a series of conversations with the star herself and with others who knew her well. In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler spoke with Marlene Dietrich in Dietrich’s Paris apartment. The star’s career was all but over, but she agreed to meet because Chandler hadn’t known Dietrich earlier, “when I was young and very beautiful.” Dietrich may have been retired, but her appearance and her celebrity—her famous mystique—were as important to her as ever. Marlene Dietrich’s life is one of the most fabulous in Hollywood history. She 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 international success The Blue Angel. Then, under the watchful eye of the director of that film, her mentor Josef von Sternberg, she came to America and became one of the brightest stars in Hollywood. She made a series of acclaimed pictures—Morocco, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, Destry Rides Again, among many others—that propelled her to international stardom. With the outbreak of World War II, the fiercely anti-Nazi Dietrich became an American citizen and entertained Allied troops on the front lines. After the war she embarked on a new career as a stage performer, and with her young music director, the gifted Burt Bacharach—whom Chandler interviewed for the book—Dietrich had an outstanding second career. Dietrich spoke candidly with Chandler about her unconventional private life: although she never divorced her husband, Rudi Sieber, she had numerous well-publicized affairs with his knowledge (and he had a longtime mistress with her approval). By the late 1970s, plagued by accidents, Dietrich had become a virtual recluse in her Paris apartment, communicating with the outside world almost entirely by telephone Marlene Dietrich lived an extraordinary life, and Marlene relies extensively on the star’s own words to reveal how intriguing and fascinating that life really was.

Evolution of Awareness

Author : Kia Marlene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Awareness written by Kia Marlene and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution of Awareness, the debut poetry collection from Kia Marlene, is a book about a spiritual journey towards enlightenment. The collection consists of 6 chapters, titled "The Egg," "The Caterpillar," "Intermission (heartbreak&love)," "The Cocoon," "The Butterfly," and a chapter titled "Knock Knock." Through numerous poems this book outlines various thoughts, questions and eventual answers concerning our collective greater purpose in life, self love, consciousness, and personhood. The author intends for this book to help broaden the reader's general perception, view of their environment, awareness, and sense of self.

Marlene

Author : Pam Gems
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849438862
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Marlene written by Pam Gems and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This West End and Broadway hit is set in Paris in the 1970s. Legendary screen and stage actress, Marlene Dietrich, now in her seventies, prepares for her evening performance.

Marlene Dietrich's ABC's

Author : Marlene Dietrich
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0813196000
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Marlene Dietrich's ABC's written by Marlene Dietrich and published by University Press of Kentucky+ORM. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the icon’s surprising and heartfelt thoughts on topics A-to-Z, plus recipes and photos—a wonderfully addictive scrapbook for fans. From the wonderfully varied and witty mind of Marlene Dietrich comes an alphabetized collection of her most zany, honest, and heartfelt thoughts. Offering her take on a range of ideas, people, and items, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC is an unprecedented glimpse into one of history’s brightest and most enigmatic stars. Nothing is too small or grand for Dietrich’s unique eye. From her entry for hardware store—“I’d rather go to a hardware store than to the opera”—to her entry for egocentric—“If he is a creative artist, forgive him”—she transforms both the mundane and the mysterious into snapshots of her own spirit. Complete with photos from her vast career, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC is an unexpected and addicting treat.

Missing Marlene

Author : Evan Marshall
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1617730459
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Missing Marlene written by Evan Marshall and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A PAGE-TURNER!" —Publishers Weekly This delightful new series introduces Jane Stuart, a widowed young mother and literary agent, and Winky, her tortoiseshell cat who has a nose for trouble. The last thing a working mom like Jane needs is a call from her young son's school saying Marlene, his nanny, never arrived to pick him up. It looks as if the pretty, nineteen-year-old has left without giving notice, and no one seems to know where she's gone. Could the young nanny have met with foul play? "PURE ENJOYMENT, REFRESHING AND LIGHT, THIS IS JUST FUN." —The Poisoned Pen Juggling book deals, rival agents, and a rocky romance with a handsome author, Jane begins to uncover Marlene's shocking secret life. As she discovers more evidence that Marlene's innocence died long ago, Winky has a critical clue that could reveal if a killer came in on little cat feet. . .and if that same killer is getting ready to strike again. "Marshall's refreshing debut has all the trappings of a cozy." —KIRKUS REVIEWS "A fast-paced, solid whodunit full of nifty surprises and with a dandy twist at the end." —I LOVE A MYSTERY "A must for cat-cozy lovers!" —THE SNOOPER

The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios

Author : Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594778914
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios written by Marlene Dobkin de Rios and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by a noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca • Reveals how ayahuasca successfully treats psychological and emotional disorders • Examines adolescent drug use from a cross-cultural perspective • Discusses the deleterious effects of drug tourism in the Amazon Ayahuasca is an alkaloid-rich psychoactive concoction indigenous to South America that has been employed by shamans for millennia as a spirit drug for divinatory and healing purposes. Although the late Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited in the early 1950s as being the first to document the use of ayahuasca, other researchers, such as the distinguished anthropologist Marlene Dobkin de Rios, were responsible for furthering his findings and uncovering the curative capabilities of this amazing compound. The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios presents the accumulated experience of de Rios’s 45 years of pioneering field studies in the area of hallucinogens in Peru and the Amazon. Her investigation into ayahuasca--which she undertook in collaboration with more than a dozen traditional Mestizo folk curanderos, shamans, and fellow ethnobotanists--focuses on the use of this revolutionary plant in the treatment of recalcitrant psychological and emotional disorders. She also shares some of her theories that prove that the ancient Maya used psychedelic plants as part of their religious rituals, thereby demonstrating the impact of plant psychedelics on human prehistory. In addition, Dobkin de Rios examines altered states of consciousness derived from the use of biofeedback and hypnosis and discusses her current work on the deleterious effects of drug tourism in the Amazon.