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Dietrich & Riefenstahl : Hollywood, Berlin, and a century in two lives
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Dietrich & Riefenstahl : Hollywood, Berlin, and a century in two lives
ISBN:
9780871403360
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Dietrich & Riefenstahl. English
Edition:
First edition
Physical Description:
612 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary:
Describes the lives of two aspiring stars who grew up so close together they could see into each other's Berlin apartments, but whose lives took very different paths to fame, one touring with the USO and the other making Nazi propaganda films.

Magisterial in scope, this dual biography examines two complex lives that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the century's greatest conflict. -- In 1929, filmmakers were casting what would become the iconic role of Lola-Lola (who made "Falling in Love Again" a sensation) in the groundbreaking sound film -- Triumph of the WillBoth women were "prodigies of will, discipline, endurance, self-reinvention, and exaltation of the body in all its muscular, androgynous, pose-striking pagan glory" (James Wolcott), and both had their grand passions, but neither abandoned ambition for the sake of love. As award-winning biographer Karin Wieland shows, in their later years, both women grappled with controlling their image--Riefenstahl by pursuing an additional career in photography, and Dietrich by eventually hiding at home as her famous beauty was ravaged by time. -- Dietrich & RiefenstahlDie Zeit) panorama of the twentieth century.
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