![]() ![]() ![]() Her image as an erotic temptress captures worldwide attention, and she becomes one of Hollywood’s top leading ladies, starring in one high-profile film-and affair-after another. As Hitler rises to power, she sets sail for America. With her sultry beauty, smoky voice, 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-until she finds overnight success in her breakthrough film role as the cabaret singer Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel.įor Marlene, neither fame nor marriage and motherhood can cure her wanderlust. Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, the willful teenager vows to become an actress and singer, trading her family’s proper, middle-class society for the free-spirited decadence of Weimar Berlin’s cabarets and drag balls. Summary: From the cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the dazzling film studios of Hollywood’s golden age, an enthralling novel of a glamorous legend Maria Magdalena Dietrich was born for a life on the stage. ![]()
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