![]() As Hitler and the Nazis rise to power, she sets sail for America. For the beautiful, desirous Marlene, neither fame nor marriage and motherhood can cure her wanderlust. ![]() 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. 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. ![]() ![]() Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, Maria Magdalena Dietrich dreams of a life on the stage. 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. ![]()
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