 | Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend by Steven Bach
Buy used from: $3.09 The best biography on Dietrich. Well-balanced, detailed, intelligent, exciting. Includes a theatre chronology, a discography and a filmography.
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 | Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $1.98 Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, is often cynical, the tone of this book is rather conservative. Yet, it reveals a lot about the person behind the Hollywood myth.
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 | Marlene by Marlene Dietrich
Buy used from: $0.01 If you expect gossip, Dietrich's autobiography will disappoint you. She never cared about facts. However, this book is quite entertaining.
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 | Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories by Marlene Dietrich Collection
Buy new: $32.00 / Used from: $9.96 This book contains stunningly beautiful photographs as well as a list of all her stage appearances from the early 1920s to 1975.
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 | Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich by Donald Spoto
Buy new: $15.16 / Used from: $2.49 A very critical biography on Dietrich. My favourite part in this book is Spoto's description of Dietrich's work with Alfred Hitchcock in 1949.
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 | Witness For the Prosecution
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.68 One of Dietrich's great character roles and one of her strongest later film performances.
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 | The Scarlet Empress - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $18.64 A Hollywood classic filmed in 1934: Pompous, hyperbolical, bizarre. Dietrich, wrapped up in tons of fur and gowns nobody else would dare to wear, is stunningly beautiful.
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 | Marlene Dietrich - Her Own Song
A great documentary film. It points out Dietrich's fight against the Third Reich and contains highly interesting footage. Includes interviews with, among others, Burt Bacharach, Hildegarde Neff, Rosemary Clooney and Maria Riva.
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 | The Garden of Allah
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.46 Her first Technicolor film, made in 1936. Pure Hollywood kitsch, but breathtakingly photographed. And - of course - Dietrich makes you forget about the ridiculous plot.
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 | Marlene
Buy used from: $159.99 An absolutely interesting account of the Dietrich legend. Maximillian Schell interviewed Dietrich when she already was a recluse. She refused to be photographed ("I've been photographed to death!"). Contains a lot of film and concert clips.
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 | Morocco
Buy used from: $2.98 A Hollywood classic filmed in 1930. One of the most stylish films ever made. Her appearance in tails made her an icon.
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 | Angel (1934)
Buy used from: $4.94 Many think this was one of her worst films. I disagree. I like this melancholic triangle love story, Dietrich's performance is brilliant!
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 | Dietrich in Rio by Marlene Dietrich
One of her most famous albums, recorded in Rio de Janeiro. I especially love her version of "One for My Baby".
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 | Marlene Dietrich in London by Marlene Dietrich
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.55 Recorded live in London in late 1964. Her best album! The greatest tracks: "Shir Hatan", "Marie Marie" and "Go Away From My Window".
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 | The Cosmopolitan Marlene Dietrich by Marlene Dietrich
Buy used from: $2.95 A collection of great songs recorded in New York in the early 1950s.
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 | Marlene Dietrich Album: Live at the Cafe de Paris by Marlene Dietrich
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $5.84 Contains her live appearance at the Cafe de Paris in London (1954) as well as several studio recordings from the 1950s.
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