num_pages: 333
description: Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto brings to life one of the most incandescent and elusive star to grace Hollywood, Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992). He has tapped archival materials and conducted dozens of interviews to present a life story filled with crucial new details: her hardships and struggles for recognition in 1920s Berlin; her transformation into a screen goddess; her entertainment of Allied troops during the World War II; and her stint as a nightclub singer in the 1950s. Spoto also includes accounts of her love affairs with Yul Brynner, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Eddie Fisher, general George S. Patton, Erich Maria Remarque, Frank Sinatra, and John Wayne.
language: English
title: Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich
titlecomplete: Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich
genres: Media Tie In, Biography Memoir, Film, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 183
publisher: Cooper Square Press