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by Peter Riva (Editor), Jean-Jacques Naudet (Editor)
Marlene Dietrich never threw anything away. She kept her good-luck rag doll (it appeared with her in The Blue Angel and followed her to dressing tables on every movie set). She kept the letters she received from, friends, colleagues, lovers, and her husband of fifty-three years. She kept every article of clothing made for her by the great French couturiers and many from legendary Hollywood costume designers. She kept everything.
After Dietrich's death, all of the memorabilia were cataloged--25,000 objects and 18,000 images. Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories brings together her treasures as depicted in 289 photographs from her own collection and features extended captions by her daughter and sole biographer, Maria Riva. We see Dietrich across the years and roles of her life: a child, a young actress in Berlin, a newlywed, a devoted American, a mother, and of course, a glamorous Hollywood legend.
An intimate look into the life of an unforgettable star, this collection offers fans more than just photos and memorabilia--it shares perspective from Marlene herself.
Author Biography
Peter Riva is the global managing director of the Marlene Dietrich companies and collections as well as Marlene's grandson. Jean-Jacques Naudet is a French journalist and iconographer, a lead historian on photography world-wide, and publication director of l'OEil de la Photographie (The Eye of Photography), an online journal dedicated to photography.
