Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich - Softcover

With great care and subtlety, Donald Spoto has produced a complete biography, well written, perceptive and carefully researched. * The Review of Higher Education * Incisive and exciting, Blue Angel exhibits Spoto's greatest strenghts. * The New York Times * [This] marvelous, elegantly written biography is an empathetic, heartbreakingly beautiful book that blends astute film criticism, with backstage lore. * Publishers Weekly * Spoto's best biography -warm, well-balanced, restrained. * Kirkus * Exquisite! With considerable skill and exhaustive, painstaking research, Spoto gives us a biography we have to take seriously. * The Times (UK) *

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.