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04 Jan 03 - 12:17 AM (#858246) Subject: Marlene Dietrich - wonderful new docu! From: katlaughing One of the Turner Broadcasting channels ran a 2001 documentary on Marlene Dietrich, tonight, and it was just wonderful. It was really packed full of footage, comments by family and contemporaries and even an audio of her first radio-telephone contact with her mother in Berlin as our troops were pushing through to liberate. She had taken a lot of flack for leaving her mother behind during the war. She said it was what her "Mami" would have wanted. It was obvious from that one call that this was so. It was heart-wrenching to listen to the poignant love and respect which came through in that one short call. There are also several clips of her daughter, Burt Bacharach, and Rosemary Clooney talking about her as well as the biographer of Jean R(?) the French actor she was in love with and who was her anchor in life. Of course, there are also many of her singing and acting, though she considered acting in Hollywood to be prostitution. There was much, much more, some of which may read at this site. Well worth watching, I highly recommend it. I learned a lot more about her than I ever knew and it has given me an even deeper respect for this extraordinary woman. kat |
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04 Jan 03 - 12:30 AM (#858250) Subject: RE: Marlene Dietrich - wonderful new docu! From: katlaughing P.S. It was directed by her grandson. |
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04 Jan 03 - 02:39 AM (#858291) Subject: RE: Marlene Dietrich - wonderful new docu! From: alanabit Have you read the biography by her daughter, Maria Riva - who incidentally is American? I would have liked to have seen the documentary, but I must confess that I found it a lot harder to like Marlene Dietrich after reading that book. She was interesting for sure and I still enjoy listening to some of those excellent songs that Friedrich Hollander wrote for "Blaue Engel". |
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04 Jan 03 - 06:12 AM (#858330) Subject: RE: Marlene Dietrich - wonderful new docu! From: katlaughing I haven't, but will look for it. Maria was in this docu quite a bit and was listed not only as her daughter, but also her biographer, as you've pointed out. She didn't express anything negative about her mother, at least in this piece. Though I did notice a curious void of personal anecdotes about them as mother and daughter and saw no pictures of them together. Maria did mention that Dietrich was always broke. She said she spent a lot of money, but never had any and that it drove Maria's father crazy.:-) I imagine it must've been difficult to be her daughter; it seemed she was always away entertaining her "boys" as she called the troops or taking care of refugees, etc. |
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04 Jan 03 - 06:40 AM (#858339) Subject: RE: Marlene Dietrich - wonderful new docu! From: alanabit I am afraid that I don't have the American publisher, but the ISBN is: 0 340 59427 6. I found the book remarkably lacking in malice, which would have been understandable. Maria Riva has my greatest admiration. |
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04 Jan 03 - 11:50 PM (#858983) Subject: RE: BS: Marlene Dietrich - wonderful new docu! From: katlaughing Thank you for that. I will see about getting it to read. She did seem as remarkable as her mother, in her own way. |
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05 Jan 03 - 05:27 AM (#859071) Subject: RE: BS: Marlene Dietrich - wonderful new docu! From: alanabit And a lot more likeable to my way of thinking, but you will make your own mind up about that in due course! |