William Morrow
June 2016
On Sale: May 24, 2016
Featuring: Marlene Dietrich
416 pages ISBN: 006240606X EAN: 9780062406064 Kindle: B014PSOVHA Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A lush, dramatic biographical novel of one of the most
glamorous and alluring legends of Hollywood’s golden age,
Marlene Dietrich—from the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar
Berlin to the lush film studios of Hollywood, a sweeping
story of passion, glamour, ambition, art, and war from the
author of Mademoiselle Chanel.
Raised in
genteel poverty after the First World War, Maria Magdalena
Dietrich dreams of a life on the stage. When a budding
career as a violinist is cut short, the willful teenager
vows to become a singer, trading her family’s proper,
middle-class society for the free-spirited, louche world of
Weimar Berlin’s cabarets and drag balls. With her sultry
beauty, smoky voice, seductive silk cocktail dresses, 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.
For the beautiful, desirous Marlene,
neither fame nor marriage and motherhood can cure her
wanderlust. As Hitler and the Nazis rise to power, she sets
sail for America. Rivaling the success of another European
import, Greta Garbo, Marlene quickly becomes one of
Hollywood’s leading ladies, starring with legends such as
Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and Cary Grant. Desperate for her
return, Hitler tries to lure her with dazzling promises.
Marlene instead chooses to become an American citizen, and
after her new nation is forced into World War II, she tours
with the USO, performing for thousands of Allied troops in
Europe and Africa.
But one day she returns to Germany.
Escorted by General George Patton himself, Marlene is
heartbroken by the war’s devastation and the evil legacy of
the Third Reich that has transformed her homeland and the
family she loved.
An enthralling and insightful
account of this extraordinary legend, Marlene
reveals the inner life of a woman of grit, glamour, and
ambition who defied convention, seduced the world, and
forged her own path on her own terms.
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