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Marlene Dietrich: Maria Riva
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Marlene Dietrich's daughter was her closest companion, helper and confidante. This abridged biography reveals Dietrich as a child, actress, wife, mother, lover and international star (although it ends mysteriously after a hospital stay in the mid-1970's and does not include her recent death). Narrator Maria Riva is absolutely wonderful. Her wit and honesty are a delight. Her pace and tone are just right. This is a loving, if sometimes harsh, though always revealing, audio portrait of a one-of-a-kind star.
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In this astonishingly honest biography of Marlene Dietrich from birth to age 73, her daughter Maria Riva reveals the truth about her mother as it contrasts with the sometimes embellished stories of the Dietrich legend. She does this with love, a sense of understanding of the needs of this complex woman, and with a surprising humor which is never deprecating. The resulting biography shows Dietrich in an almost heroic light--but not for the actions which have become part of her show-biz mystique. Her real life and her real commitments, many of which are far less celebrated, often prove to be more remarkable than the stories promulgated by the press.
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Marlene Dietrich married director Rudolf Sieber in 1923 and they had an open relationship. They had one child Maria Elisabeth Sieber in 1924. Marlene ... had relationships with actor Jean Gabin and writer Mercedes de Acosta. Rumors were she had affairs with Frank Sinatra, John Kennedy, Edith Piaf.
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Despite her legendary affairs with the likes of John F. Kennedy and Greta Garbo, sultry actress Marlene Dietrich, one of the 20th century's most iconic figures, hated sex and had a schizophrenic personality, according to her daughter Maria Riva. In an interview with German magazine Bunte, to be published on Thursday, Riva said Dietrich's aversion to sex did not deter countless men from pursuing her. "All of her lovers wanted to marry her anyway," the magazine quoted the 81-year-old Riva as saying.
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Dietrich lived mainly in Paris after 1968. She had married in 1923 or 1924, to Rudolf Sieber, a casting director, with whom she had a daughter in 1924. The marriage was short - lived, but she and Sieber remained friends, and he served as her business manager for many years. In his old age, she often visited him on his California chicken ranch and spent days cooking meals for him. The rest of her real - life romances rivaled any on - screen saga: only in later years were rumors of her bisexuality openly discussed in the media, and she was said to have had a long relationship with writer Mercedes de Acosta, who was ... the lover of Dietrich's archrival, Greta Garbo. Other dalliances included men as well as women, and her conquests reportedly included the writers Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway, and even President John F. Kennedy.
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Originally christened Gubart von Maria Magdalena Dietrich, she was born in Berlin on 27 December 1901. Immediately after the First World War, Dietrich took acting lessons at the Max Reinhardt School and, starting in 1923, began to appear in small roles in the Deutsche Theatre.
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