Marlene Dietrich

The book is a collection of "lost" interviews and magazine profiles of actress Marlene Dietrich, beginning in 1930 and ending in 1954. The collected interviews reveal the "real" woman behind the cinematic mythical figure of Marlene Dietrich. The articles/stories/interviews cover her early life on the stage in Germany, and her eventual movie stardom in Hollywood, her complicated, symbiotic relationship with her mentor and director Josef von Sternberg, her problems with Nazi Germany and United States immigration, and her complicated and intriguing love life. It also reveals her love/hate relationship with the press.