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Panini Verlags GmbH Marlene Dietrich
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The University Press of Kentucky Marlene Dietrich
Book SynopsisMarlene Dietrich never threw away anything. She kept her good-luck rag doll (it appeared with her in The Blue Angel and followed her to dressing tables on every movie set). She kept the letters she received from her lovers and her husband of fifty-three years. She kept every article of clothing made for her by the great French couturiers and the legendary Hollywood costume designers. She kept everything. After Dietrich''s death, all of the articles were collected 25,000 objects and 18,000 images. Here, her treasures are brought together in 289 photographs from her own collection, with extended captions by her daughter, Maria Riva. We see Dietrich across the years and roles of her life: a child, a young actress in Berlin, a newlywed, a devoted American, a mother, and of course, a glamorous Hollywood legend. An intimate look into the life of an unforgettable star, Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories gifts fans with insights from Marlene herself.
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Greven Verlag Marlene Dietrich
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Langen - Mueller Verlag Marlene Dietrich
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Planeta Cómic Marlene Dietrich
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Bebra Verlag Marlene Dietrich in Berlin
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Hal Leonard Corporation Marlene: Marlene Dietrich A Personal Biography
Book SynopsisIn ÊMarleneÊ Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich is vividly brought to life. In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler interviewed the reclusive actress in Dietrich's Paris apartment. The star's career was all but over but she agreed to meet because Chandler hadn't known her earlier when âDietrichã was young and very beautiful. ÊMarleneÊ is further enriched by Chandler's interviews with others who knew Dietrich well including Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Burt Bacharach.ÞChandler relates how Dietrich began her career in her native Berlin as a model then a stage and screen actress during the silent era becoming a star with ÊThe Blue AngelÊ then moving on to become one of the brightest lights in Hollywood. Prior to World War II the fiercely anti-Nazi Dietrich resisted Hitler's flattering invitations to return to Germany and became an American citizen instead later entertaining Allied troops on the front lines. After the war she embarked on a new outstanding second career as a stage performer.ÞDietrich had a strict Prussian upbringing but she refused to be constrained by society's expectations. She spoke candidly with Chandler about her unconventional marriage; she and her husband both had affairs each with the other's consent. She even expressed warm feelings toward her husband's mistress.ÞMarlene Dietrich lived an extraordinary life and ÊMarleneÊ relies extensively on the star's own words to reveal how intriguing and fascinating that life really was.
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Lulu.com Marlene Dietrich The Movie Guide
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Editions Flammarion Obsession: Marlene Dietrich: The Pierre Passebon
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BearManor Media Marlene Dietrich: Between the Covers (hardback)
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Edition Gauglitz Marlene Dietrich in Berlin Wege und Orte
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The University of Arizona Press Marlene Dietrich Rita Hayworth My Mother Camino
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Lulu.com Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg The Movie Guide
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The University Press of Kentucky Marlene
Book SynopsisMarlene Dietrich chronicles her fabulous rise to stardom, reminding us why she remains an international icon and true Hollywood legend.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Marlene
Book SynopsisThis West End and Broadway hit is set in Paris in the 1970s. Legendary screen and stage actress, Marlene Dietrich, now in her seventies, prepares for her evening performance.
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Duke University Press Dietrich Icon
Book SynopsisFew movie stars have meant as many things to as many different audiences as the iconic Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich has long been a flashpoint in Germany's struggles over its cultural heritage, having renounced and left Nazi Germany, assumed American citizenship, and entertained American troops.Trade Review“Yes, it is academic in the best sense of the word: you can learn a lot but you may also enjoy the design, the wonderful photos, the careful editing.” - Dietrich Newsletter“[T]he editors provide an extensive summary of the many publications that have explored Dietrich’s performances from ideological, formal, and, above all, psychoanalytic perspectives.” - Caroline Weber, BookForum“[T]he genius of the book is its inquiry into the iconic Dietrich herself. . . . [A]high standard of well-written scholarship wrapped in a beautifully produced book graced by a trove of artfully reproduced images. . . . The editors’ lucid 22-page intro draws in both scholar and fan. Highly recommended.” - T. Cripps, Choice“[T]here is much to admire in this volume. This is an excellent book to be used in the classroom as well as a resource for any Dietrich aficionado.” - Irene Javors, Screening the Past“As the product of a German studies professor and a film-studies professor respectively, Dietrich Icon is unique in its appeal to a wide scholarly audience. Even more surprising is its approachability to the casual reader who knows little, if anything, about Dietrich. . . . [T]he incredible details of its memoirs . . . and precise critical analysis allow the reader a penetrative rather than descriptive look at Dietrich. Dietrich Icon has something to offer everyone, from literary, film, and queer theorists to cultural studies and history scholars, with something for the unfamiliar reader to boot.” - Lauren Indvik, The Dartmouth Review“Dietrich Icon. . . successfully bridges the gap between academic publishing and writing that can appeal to general readership. . . . The book not only has an alluring design, but the paperback edition is also reasonably priced. . . . Dietrich Icon rises above the fray and encompasses successfully the aesthetic, cultural, and sexual diversity of Marlene Dietrich. To put it simply, the book is indispensable for anybody wanting to know more about the icon Dietrich.” - Ulrich Bach, German Studies Review“Gerd Gemünden and Mary R. Desjardins convincingly suggest, and the essays together prove, that Dietrich is a figure who is interesting not just in herself but also as a prism reflecting discourses on aging, stardom, feminism, film theory, authorship, authenticity, performance, and masquerade, as well as audience projections ranging from Third Reich condemnation to lesbian cult fandom.”—Pamela Robertson Wojcik, author of Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna“Most works on actresses are largely biographical in nature, with some critical evaluation of particular films and stage appearances thrown into the mix. This anthology by Gerd Gemünden and Mary R. Desjardins, however, presents serious historical and theoretical work on Dietrich’s star image and career—all expressed in clear and readable language, devoid of ‘jargon.’”—Lucy Fischer, author of Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form“Dietrich Icon. . . successfully bridges the gap between academic publishing and writing that can appeal to general readership. . . The book not only has an alluring design, but the paperback edition is also reasonably priced. . . Dietrich Icon rises above the fray and encompasses successfully the aesthetic, cultural, and sexual diversity of Marlene Dietrich. To put it simply, the book is indispensable for anybody wanting to know more about the icon Dietrich.” -- Ulrich Bach * German Studies Review *“[T]he editors provide an extensive summary of the many publications that have explored Dietrich’s performances from ideological, formal, and, above all, psychoanalytic perspectives.” -- Caroline Weber * BookForum *“[T]here is much to admire in this volume. This is an excellent book to be used in the classroom as well as a resource for any Dietrich aficionado.” -- Irene Javors * Screening the Past *“Yes, it is academic in the best sense of the word: you can learn a lot but you may also enjoy the design, the wonderful photos, the careful editing.” * Dietrich Newsletter *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prelude Introduction: Marlene Dietrich’s Appropriations / Mary R. Desjardins and Gerd Gemünden 3 Falling in Love Again / Steven Bach 25 I. The Icon Dietrich’s Face / Lutz Koepnick 43 The Legs of Marlene Dietrich / Nora M. Alter 60 Marlene Dietrich: The Voice as Mask / Amy Lawrence 79 II. Establishing the Star Persona Playing Garbo: How Marlene Dietrich Conquered Hollywood / Joseph Garncarz 103 Seductive Departures of Marlene Dietrich: Exile and Stardom in The Blue Angel / Elisabeth Bronfen 119 The Blue Angel in Multiple-Language Versions: The Inner Thighs of Miss Dietrich / Patrice Petro 141 Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus: Advertising Dietrich in Seven Markets / Mary Beth Haralovich 162 Marlene Dietrich: The Prodigal Daughter / Erica Carter 186 III. “Marlene Has Sex But No Gender” Marlene Dietrich and the Erotics of Code-Bound Hollywood / Gaylyn Studlar 211 “It’s Not Often That I Want a Man”: Reading for a Queer Marlene / Alice A. Kuzniar 239 Get/Away: Structure and Desire in Rancho Notorious / Mark Williams 259 IV. (Auto-) Biography and the Archive The Order of Knowledge and Experience: Marlene Dietrich’s ABC / Amelie Hastie 289 Dietrich Dearest: Family Memoir and the Fantasy of Origins / Mary R. Desjardins 310 An Icon between the Fronts: Vilsmaier’s Recast Marlene / Eric Rentschler 328 “Life Goes On without Me”: Marlene Dietrich, Old Age, and the Archive / Judith Mayne 347 “Is That Me?”: The Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin / Werner Sudendorf 376 Bibliography 385 Contributors 401 Index 405
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Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva Delayed Rays of a Star: 2022: Delayed Rays of a
Book SynopsisWhen a photographer captures Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl in one frame at a party in Berlin in 1928, no one realizes the extent to which their lives will reflect the tumultuous decades that follow.
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Griffin Publishing Complicated Women Sex and Power in PreCode Hollywood
Book SynopsisBetween 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock and got rid of cheating husbands. This is an exploration of the careers and lives of female stars such as Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Mae West.
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Exile Editions Of Architecture: The Territories of a Mind
Book SynopsisA lively collection populated by historical icons, each poem a story about the potency of imagination, territories, border-crossings of the mind – among them: the madness of a king who wants to be a swan, Michelangelo chiselling a heart that beats into his David, Tsar Peter with his three pet dwarfs acting as generals in the army, Vera Zasulich who became the world’s first woman terrorist, Robinson Crusoe hunting for the footprints of Friday, Michael Jackson pretending he is Marcel Marceau as he woos Marlene Dietrich in Paris.
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Acantilado La última modelo
Book SynopsisCaroline, una joven prostituta independiente y desenfadada, conoce en 1958 al genial Alberto Giacometti, que queda intrigado y arrebatado por la extraña joven que pronto es la única mujer a la que quiere contemplar. La muchacha de veinte años terminará convirtiéndose en su diosa, su desmesura y su última modelo; ni siquieraMarlene Dietrich logrará desplazarla del taller ni del corazón del artista. Unas páginas fascinantes en las que Maubert da voz a la mujer que amó al gran escultor del siglo xx, su locura, su Grisaille.
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University of California Press Acting in the Cinema
Book SynopsisIn this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the contemporary features of Robert DeNiro, he develops a useful means of analyzing performance in the age of mechanical reproduction; at the same time, he reveals the ideological implications behind various approaches to acting, and suggests ways that behavior on the screen can be linked to the presentation of self in society. Naremore's discussion of such figures as Lillian Gish, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, and Cary Grant will interest the specialist and the general reader alike, helping to establish standards and methods for future writing about performers and their craft.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction PART ONE Performance in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 2 Protocols The Performance Frame What Is Acting? The Actor and the Audience 3 Rhetoric and Expressive Technique 4 Expressive Coherence and Performance within Performance 5 Accessories Expressive Objects Costume Makeup PART TWO Star Performances 6 Lillian Gish in True Heart Susie (1919) 7 Charles Chaplin In The Gold Rush (1925) 8 Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930) 9 James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) 10 Katharine Hepburn in Holiday (1938) 11 Marlon Brando In On the Waterfront (1954) 12 Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959) PART THREE Film as a Performance Text 13 Rear Window (1954) 14 The King of Comedy (1983) Selected Bibliography Index
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Seagull Books London Ltd Postcard from London
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive volume in English from one of Hungary’s most popular twentieth-century writers. Table of ContentsAbandoned Afternoon Sleeper Autobiography Cabana Mosquitoes A Character out of Chekhov A Corner of the Table The Day of Glory A Dream Fabulya’s Wives Furniture at Night God A Grand Old Cafe In a Drafty Staircase In Place of a Foreword Marlene Dietrich Message The Morning of the Journey The Night Before the Journey On a Streetcar The Original Ottlik Pebble Postcard from London Snotty Ghost The Sweet Smell of Success A Vestibule The Veteran A Visit with Father A Visit with Mother A Wedding What Was Left Women’s Locker Room Words About an Uncle
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La Muerte en Trieste
Book SynopsisEn 'La muerte en Trieste' Jason presenta tres historias con las que juega a hacer malabarismos para crear híbridos sorprendentes. En "El caso Magritte" dos superagentes tipo John Steed y Emma Peel tienen que enfrentarse a misteriosasdesapariciones relacionadas con el mundo surrealista del famoso pintor belga.En la segunda historia, que da título al libro, nos transportamos al Berlín de los años veinte, donde nos encontramos con dadaístas, Rasputín, David Bowie como viajero en el tiempo, Nosferatu, Marlene Dietrich... y la sombra de la llegada del nazismo.Por último, en "Dulces sueños", la versión superheroica de los nuevos románticos de los 80 debe salvar al mundo de la inexorable llegada de un peligroso meteorito. Todo ello narrado con el estilo característico de Jason, con una economía de medios y un sentido del humor seco que da en el blanco.
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ACC Art Books Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood
Book SynopsisEnigmatic, dazzling and fabulous: the faces of Hollywood's golden age.The TimesA new book pulls together glamorous portraits of film stars from the 1920s to the 60s who could draw an audience with their name alone. The GuardianFabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood brings some of the greatest portraits taken by leading Hollywood portrait photographers during the motion picture industry''s golden years of 1920 to 1960. Little-seen negatives, long buried in the remarkable and internationally renowned archives of the John Kobal Foundation, have been unearthed and printed to reveal some of Hollywood''s favourite stars at the height of their careers. Full-page images of Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, as well as lesser lights including Anna May Wong, Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez and Ramon Novarro, will remind lon
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The Urban Explorer Only in Berlin: A Guide to Unique Locations,
Book SynopsisDiscover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides! These ground breaking city guides are for independent cultural travellers wishing to escape the crowds and understand cities from different and unusual perspectives. Unique locations, hidden corners and unusual objects. A comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 80 fascinating and unusual historical sites in one of Europe's great capital cities - Hidden gardens, forgotten cemeteries, ruined churches, historic villages and unusual museums. Tracking the history from the Hohenzollerns and the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and the Soviets and featuring sites such as; Devil's Mountain, the Bridge of Spies, Peacock Island, the Fuhrer Bunker, Frederick the Great's coffin, The Berlin Archaeopteryx, Marlene Dietrich, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Albert Einstein, Rosa Luxemburg and the Brothers Grimm.
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Open Road Media The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret
Book SynopsisGreta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck—to name a few—maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off the set, all three box office divas were involved in “lavender” marriages (marriages of convenience, often to gay men) or remained stoically single. They, and several other Hollywood starlets of the era, were members of a discreet women’s “club” called the Sewing Circle, Hollywood’s underground lesbian society. Madsen takes a candid look at the very complicated dual lives these great stars led and the impact their preference for same-sex relationships had on their movie careers. Trade Review“Quite a revelation . . . Madsen documents his observations convincingly.” —Gay Times
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Rituales cotidianos II Las artistas en accin
Book SynopsisAislarse por completo o celebrar fiestas multitudinarias, recurrir a los estupefacientes o a la vida saludable, renunciar a los hijos o dejar que pululen por el estudio... Los modos de enfrentarse a la creación son innumerables, como refleja el irónico y sagaz testimonio de las protagonistas de este libro.Pintoras, compositoras, escultoras, científicas, cineastas e intérpretes revelan las pequeñas y grandes decisiones que tuvieron que tomar en su vida cotidiana.Nos muestran cómo han logrado vencer los obstáculos que afronta cualquier artista, pero también los que tenían por el hecho de ser mujeres: la conciliación familiar, la presión social o la intendencia del hogar.Aparecen, entre otras, Pina Bausch, Nina Simone, Diane Arbus, Louisa May Alcott, Dorothy Parker, Grace Paley, Marlene Dietrich, Susan Sontag, Marie Curie, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Patti Smith, Joan Didion...
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Rowman & Littlefield Banton of Paramount
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the career of Travis Banton, one of the preeminent costume/fashion designers of Hollywood's Celebrated Golden Age. Working at Paramount Pictures from 1925 through 1938, Banton was responsible for creating the on-screen images of such legendary actresses as Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Mae West, and most notably Marlene Dietrich. His peers were Gilbert Adrian at MGM and Orry-Kelly at Warner Brothers; one of his proteges was the legendary designer Edith Head. Eschewing a potentially lucrative legal career, Banton attend the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, the first school in New York City to offer courses in fashion design. This led to positions with the most famous and successful couturiéres of the day, the British Lady Duff-Gordon and Madame Frances who, despite her name, lived and worked in the United States. They both served as a training ground for Banton's eventual move to Paramount Pictures in 1925. This celebration of his career and achieveme
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Running Press,U.S. Hollywood Victory
Book SynopsisRemember a time when all of Hollywood-with the expressed encouragement and investment of the government-joined forces to defend the American way of life? It was World War II and the gravest threat faced the nation, and the world at large. Hollywood answered the call to action.This is the riveting tale of how the film industry enlisted in the Allied effort during the second World War-a story that started with staunch isolationism as studios sought to maintain the European market and eventually erupted into impassioned support in countless ways. Industry output included war films depicting battles and reminding moviegoers what they were fighting for, home-front stories designed to boost the morale of troops overseas, and even musicals and comedies that did their bit by promoting the Good Neighbor Policy with American allies to the south. Stars like Carole Lombard-who lost her life returning from a war bond-selling tour-Bob Hope, and Marlene Dietrich enthusiastically joined USO
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Alfred A. Knopf Double Vision The Unerring Eye of Art World
Book Synopsis**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ART BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ARTNEWS**The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with civil rights.Dominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston, they built the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum. Now, with unprecedented access to family archives, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace, to their own early years in France, and their travels in Sout
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Editorial Fundamentos Canciones
Book SynopsisOfelia del flower power en los 60's, yegua del caballo en los 70's, fanática del alcohol, el sexo, el glamour y la decadencia, MARIANNE FAITHFULL pudo haber acabado como el otro fantasma de la era psicodélica: Nico, pero, en 1979, protagonizó uno de los más brillantes y sorprendentes comebacks en la historia del rock: Broken English, una obra inquitamente brutal, emocional y genuinamente extrema.Tras dos nuevos discos introspectivos en el escabroso filo del drama personal ?Dangerous Acquaintances y A Child's Adventure?, MARIANNE grabó, bajo el mecenazgo del productor Hal Wilner ?Mingus, Monk, Weill?, una soberbia colección de blues bajo el título genérico de Strange Weather, rescatando temas de Billie Holiday, Marlene Dietrich, Dinah Washington, Leadbelly, Bob Dylan, Dr. John y Tom Waits.Su participación en las bandas sonoras de Thelma & Louise y Trouble in Mind ?Inquietudes?, así como su devocional live Blazing Away, forman las últimas piezas de un cicatrizado crisol artístico,
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Alianza Editorial El cine negro Pesadillas Verdaderas Y Falsas Cine
Book SynopsisYa situado en tiempos de la Gran Depresión o en los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ya en otros posteriores, marcados por el miedo al apocalipsis atómico o a la caza de brujas de la Guerra Fría, EL CINE NEGRO es sin discusión uno de los géneros mayores de la historia del cine. A su grandeza han contribuido directores ?Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Raoul Walsh, Orson Welles, Samuel Fuller y John Huston?, obras de culto ?El sueño eterno, La jungla de asfalto, La dama de Shanghai, Los sobornados, Laura, Callejón sin salida, Gilda? e iconos incontestables, como Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney o Edward G. Robinson, entre otros. En el presente volumen, NOËL SIMSOLO, director, guionista e historiador del cine, nos ofrece una visión innovadora del género desde sus comienzos y señala sus límites inspirándose tanto en sus fuentes literarias como en las estrictamente cinematográficas.
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Titan Hollywood Movie Stills
Book SynopsisMarlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe... It is through the eye of the stills camera that we experience and recall some of the cinema''s most memorable events and faces. Still images are so powerful that they can easily pass for actual scenes for the movies they represent - rather than separately posed, lighted and photographed shots that may not even find their way into the finished film. This book is the most detailed and perceptive survey ever devoted to this neglected aspect of film-making. It traces the origin of stills photography during the silent era and the early development of the star system, through to the rise of the giant studios in the 1930s and their eventual decline. Finler focuses on the photographers, on the stars they photographed, and on many key films and film-makers.Hollywood Movie Stills is illustrated with hundreds of rare and unusual stills from the author''s own collection, including not only portraits and scen
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Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Moxie
Book SynopsisA celebration of the fearless, fabulous actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age illustrated with stunning photographs from a world-class collection. Lauren Bacall, Louise Brooks, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Lillian Gish, Gloria Grahame, Katharine Hepburn, Veronica Lake, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Ida Lupino, Barbara Stanwyck, Anna May Wong and more!To make it in Hollywood, it takes more than beauty, brains, and talent it takes moxie. This was especially true for women in the heyday of the studio system, a period from the 1920s to the 1950s when a small number of companies dominated the production and distribution of films in America. It was an industry controlled by male studio executives, in which directors and producers called the shots and contract players had little say in which roles they would play. Still, a trailblazing group of actresses forged successful careers out of sheer conviction, perseverance, and professional know-
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Globe Pequot Hemingways Passions
Book SynopsisHemingway's passion was writinghe was inspired by a lifetime of daring adventures and encouraged by the many women in his life. He nurtured his creativity by purposely seeking dangerous situations to test his own levels of courage and to create literary heroes that displayed grace under pressure. His masculine, adventurous spirit appealed to women of all ages, including his four wives and a long list of legendary actresses, and he frequently transformed the women in his life into memorable fictional characters.In 1950, Hemingway told Marlene Dietrich that he truly loved only five women. Who were these five women and why did he love them? In Hemingway's Passions, Hemingway scholar Nancy Sindelar answers these questions. Through quotations from his works and personal letters, as well as fifty photographsmany of which have not been previously publishedshe captures Hemingway's life and romantic adventures, revealing his own feelings about his romantic relationships and the ways h
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Alianza Editorial Conversaciones con Billy Wilder
Book SynopsisEncuadernación: RústicaColección: El Libro De Bolsillo. VariosEn Conversaciones con Billy Wilder el legendario director, ya nonagenario, accedió por primera vez a hablar extensamente sobre su vida y obra. Entrevistado por Cameron Crowe, en sus páginas habla de su experiencia en el mismo corazón de Hollywood, así como sobre guiones, fotografía y escenografía, sus colegas y sus películas, y el cine de hoy. En este largo coloquio de director a director ?similar al sostenido por Truffaut y el maestro del suspense en \"El cine según Hitchcock\"? conocemos cómo fue la colaboración de Wilder con estrellas de la talla de Audrey Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich o Charles Laughton, entre muchos otros, y nos asomamos a las curiosas y divertidas historias ocurridas entre bastidores durante el rodaje de \"Perdición\", \"Berlín Occidente\", \"El crepúsculo de los dioses\", \"El gran carnaval\", \"Traidor en el infierno\", \"Sabrina\", \"La tentación vive arriba\", \"Aria
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Hardie Grant Books (UK) Dior Style Icon
Book SynopsisChristian Dior's era-defining designs and enduring legacy are captured here in more than 50 of the fashion house's most iconic pieces. Dior redefined what fashion looked like in the post-war age and demanded glamour, femininity and excess to be the order of the day. His vision for seriously structured corsets tapering to dramatically full skirts with pleats for days earned the title 'The New Look', and it really was. His garments spoke of hope and beauty and were crafted with the utmost attention to detail. This beautifully illustrated book charts not only the work of the great man himself, but also those who stood at the helm after him, including the inimitable Yves Saint Laurent and John Galliano. The House of Dior has dressed everyone from Old Hollywood icons like Grace Kelly and Marlene Dietrich through to fictional fashion icon Carrie Bradshaw and music royalty Rihanna. Style Icon: Dior is a wonderful tribute to the roman
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La mujer que no entendía el mundo
Book SynopsisUn velo de misterio oculta la figura de una de las mujeres más fascinantes del pasado siglo: la ajedrecista Sonja Graf. Nacida en Múnich a comienzos del siglo XX, de niña fue maltratada por sus padres, huyó del Tercer Reich en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y participó en el Torneo de las Naciones, en Buenos Aires, sin otra bandera que un cartel que decía Libre. Eterna rival de la mítica campeona mundial Vera Menchik, Graf vestía ropa de hombre, fumaba y bebía como un hombre y se acostaba sin problemas con mujeres y hombres. El encuentro entre Graf y una enigmática admiradora en una cafetería de Los Angeles ?en un largo diálogo donde van surgiendo los nombres de Marlene Dietrich y Humphrey Bogart, entre las sombras del nazismo, el feminismo y el psicoanálisis? vertebra esta novela apasionante de David Torres que es también, de algún modo, una búsqueda de la identidad y una partida de ajedrez.
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Terra Uitgeverij Icons by Oscar
Book SynopsisVery few celebrities are so iconic that their first name is all that's needed in order to immediately recognise them. One photographer has captured each and every one of these icons - and more besides - on film. He goes by the name of Oscar Abolafia. You can call him Oscar.Trade Review"I thought then that Oscar was one of the best. And now, almost 40 years later, I still do!" - Graydon Carter, Editor-In-Chief, Vanity Fair. "Having captured so many stars, Icons by Oscar! Makes for an enthralling read, with each image showcasing the personality of its subject in the most raw and authentic means possible." - GQ Australia.Table of ContentsIncludes portraits of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davies Jr., Twiggy, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Priscilla Presley, Marlene Dietrich, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ginger Rogers, Janis Joplin, Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson, Fred Astaire, Salvador Dali, Cher, Audrey Hepburn, Dolly Parton, Elton John and Marlon Brando.
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V & A Publishing Shocking Life: The Autobiography of Elsa
Book SynopsisElsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s and 1930s with a flair for the unusual. The first to use shoulder pads, animal print and the inventor of shocking pink, Schiaparelli collaborated with artists including Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali, to create extraordinary garments such as the Dali Lobster Dress. Schiaparelli had an affluent clientele, from Katherine Hepburn to Marlene Dietrich, who embraced her outrageous but elegant designs. She designed aviator Amy Johnson's wardrobe for her solo flight to Cape Town in 1936, the culottes for tennis champion Lily d'Alvarez that outraged the lawn tennis establishment, and her clothes appeared in more than 30 films including Every Day's a Holiday with Mae West and Moulin Rouge. Schiaparelli's fascinating autobiography charts her rise from resident of a rat-infested apartment to designer to the stars.Trade Review"There's no better way to understand Daniel Roseberry's work for the French maison than looking at the novel-esque life of its founder Elsa Schiaparelli.", Eleonora dal Bosco, 1 Granary, January 3rd 2022
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Headline Publishing Group Chanel in 55 Objects: The Iconic Designer Through
Book SynopsisThe elegance of the Little Black Dress. The simplicity of the Breton shirt. The luxury of the fragrance. These signatures exemplify the image of Chanel. Bringing to life the story and designs of Gabrielle Chanel, the most influential couturière in the history of fashion, Chanel in 55 Objects is an exquisite collection of bespoke illustrations and captivating text. The chic drawings depict her most iconic innovations including fashion, fragrance, jewellery and accessories, as well as the places, motifs and people that inspired her.Table of ContentsCoco Chanel • Aubazine Abbey • Baroque • Cabaret • The equestrienne • Millinery • Boy Capel • The bob • Trousers • Jersey • Deauville • Venice • Misia • Ballets Russes • Fur • Biarritz • Le style garcon • 31 rue Cambon • Chanel No.5 • Ernest Beaux • Makeup • Bohemian style • Le Train Bleu • Pablo Picasso • Chanel Gardenia perfume • Little Black Dress • Scissors • Pearls • Samuel Goldwyn • Chanel No.22 perfume • The Ritz • Marilyn Monroe • The suit • Marlene Dietrich • Chain • 2.55 handbag • Two-tone shoe • Elizabeth Taylor • Grace Kelly • Chanel No19 perfume • Bijoux de Diamants • The logo • Paul Iribe • Jackie Kennedy • The Lion • The camellia • January 10, 1971 • Karl Lagerfeld.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Art of Musical Ciphers Riddles and Sundry Curiosities
Book SynopsisOffers the first comprehensive account of a centuries-old tradition of encrypting covert messages into music, from the Middle Ages to the present day.What do J. S. Bach, beef cabbage, coffee, the SATOR Square, and Marlene Dietrich have in common? Composers have enciphered these and many other words into music.Since time immemorial riddles have intrigued us, partly for their mirthful manner of connecting incongruous ideas, partly for their arresting way of opening fresh perspectives on our shared human condition. When we think of riddles, we normally recall verbal conundrums from cultures around the globe. But riddles can penetrate non-verbal aspects of our existence as well. Masking messages in music so that they lurk beneath the sonorous surface is an august Western tradition spanning the Middle Ages to the present. Known as musical cryptography, these puzzling pursuits form the subject of this book, construed broadly enough to capture not just musical ciphers and codes but also a curiosity shop of related techniques, which arguably can advance the greater virtue. They entertain, edify, and enthral, but also bewitch and bewilder, and, when unsolved, perplex and perturb.
£35.99
Reino de Cordelia S.L. La mujer y el pelele
Book SynopsisSe cumple este año el 115 aniversario de la publicación de La mujer y el pelele, la provocadora novela del belga afincado en Francia Pierre Louÿs (Gante, 1870 - París, 1925), considerada uno de los grandes clásicos de la narrativa erótica del siglo xx. Aunque La femme et le pantin ha sido editada varias veces en España, hasta el momento jamás había recogido los maravillosos grabados a color realizados por Paul-Émile Bécat para el volumen que imprimió en París Le Vasseur et Cie., Éditeurs, un 24 de noviembre de 1945, recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con las ilustraciones coloreadas a mano por el propio Bécat. El espléndido trabajo a color de este gran ilustrador ofrece al libro esa visión de Andalucía tópica y extravagante que el cine también ha reflejado en las adaptaciones realizadas hasta ahora de La mujer y el pelele, como la de Josef von Sternberg ?The Devil is a Woman (1935, con Marlene Dietrich y Lionel Atwill)?, Julien Duvivier ?La femme et le pantin (1959, con Brigit
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Hal Leonard Corporation Cabaret FAQ
Book SynopsisThe book features chapters on Jean Ross and Christopher Isherwood ä the real people behind the singular characters of Sally Bowles and Clifford Bradshaw/Brian Roberts ä and includes background information on the original source material Isherwood''s ÊGoodbye to BerlinÊ stories and the first time Sally Bowles as portrayed by Julie Harris appeared onstage and on the big screen in John Van Druten''s ÊI Am a CameraÊ. It also explores the stories behind the figure of the outlandish Emcee as well as the actors who played him from Joel Grey to Alan Cumming. And it studies the famous musical score by John Kander and Fred Ebb and looks into the burlesque roots of director Bob Fosse in his native Chicago. Throughout the book the author makes connections and associations to ÊCabaretÊ by looking at such diverse topics as the first cabarets in Paris Cabaret Voltaire and Dada early Berlin cabarets during the Weimar Republic German expressionism the Bauhaus Marlene Dietrich and ÊThe Blue An
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Laertes Editorial, S.L. Yo Hemingway confesiones desde el otro lado
Book SynopsisFormato: 15,5x23 cms"El fantasma de Ernest Hemingway se aparece al autor de esta novela para contarle su vida y, sobre todo, para confesar, en un ejercicio inconmensurable de sinceridad, la razón de algunas acciones de máximo heroísmo y de las que nunca se ha sentido orgulloso.Yo, Hemingway es una novela en la que el autor, Antonio Civantos, se comporta como un simple amanuense que escribe al dictado todo lo bueno y lo malo que el gran escritor americano quiere desvelar de su existencia. El lector asistirá a la catarsis voluntaria de uno de los escritores más famosos de todos los tiempos. Estuvo Hemingway enamorado de Antonio Ordóñez? Que relación tuvo con Scott Fitzgerald? Claro que el escritor tampoco se olvida de relatarnos un sin fin de aventuras amorosas con todo un firmamento de mujeres, desde Gertrude Stein a Marlene Dietrich, pasando, obviamente, por los avatares de sus cuatro matrimonios. Su tercera mujer, Martha Gellhorn, fue una de las damas del Kremlin?Pero no só
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Art of Musical Ciphers Riddles and Sundry Curiosities
Book SynopsisOffers the first comprehensive account of a centuries-old tradition of encrypting covert messages into music, from the Middle Ages to the present day.Question: What do J. S. Bach, beef cabbage, coffee, the SATOR Square, and Marlene Dietrich have in common?Answer: Composers have enciphered these and many other words into music.Since time immemorial riddles have intrigued us, partly for their mirthful manner of connecting incongruous ideas, partly for their arresting way of opening fresh perspectives on our shared human condition. When we think of riddles, we normally recall verbal conundrums from cultures around the globe. But riddles can penetrate non-verbal aspects of our existence as well. Masking messages in music so that they lurk beneath the sonorous surface is an august Western tradition spanning the Middle Ages to the present. Known as musical cryptography, these puzzling pursuits form the subject of this book, construed broadly enough to capture not just musical ciphers and codes but also a curiosity shop of related techniques, which arguably can advance the greater virtue. They entertain, edify, and enthral, but also bewitch and bewilder, and, when unsolved, perplex and perturb.
£117.00
Penguin Putnam Inc Love in a Time of Hate
Book Synopsis?An enthralling and insightful cultural history?one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair.? ?Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post Book ReviewAn ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth centuryAs the Roaring Twenties wind down, Jean-Paul Sartre waits in a Paris café for a first date with Simone de Beauvoir, who never shows. Marlene Dietrich slips away from a loveless marriage to cruise the dive bars of Berlin. The fledgling writer Vladimir Nabokov places a freshly netted butterfly at the end of his wife?s bed. Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Zelda and Scott, Dalí and Gala, Picasso and his many muses, Henry and June and Anaïs Nin, the entire extended family of Thomas Mann, and a host of other fascinating and famous figures make art and love, write and row, bed and wed and betray. They do not yet know that they, along with millions of others, will soon be forced to contemplate flight?or fight?as the world careens from one global conflict to the next.
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Chicago Review Press Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend
Book SynopsisAnna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors. Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant’s difficult path through the prejudices of American culture. Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of seven children born to a laundryman and his wife. Childhood experience fueled her fascination with Hollywood. By 1919 she secured a small part in her first film, The Red Lantern, and she continued to act up until her death. Her most famous film roles were in The Toll of the Sea, Peter Pan, The Thief of Baghdad, Old San Francisco, and Shanghai Express. But discrimination against Asiana, in both in the film industry and society, was commonplace, and when it came time to make a film version of Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth, she was passed over for the Chinese female lead role, which was ultimately given to the white actor Luise Rainer.In a narrative that recalls the pathos of life in Los Angeles’s Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood’s pleasure palaces, Graham Russell Gao Hodges recovers the life of a Hollywood legend.
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