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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.Īn 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.Ī former fashion executive, C. From the cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the dazzling film studios of Hollywood s golden age, an enthralling novel of a. : Marlene: A Novel (9780062406064) by Gortner, C. 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. From the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the tyrannical movie studios of Los.

Raised in genteel poverty after the first World War, Maria Magdalena Dietrich dreams of a life on the stage. 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.

Marlene by C.W. Gortner