Buy this book on-line O'CONNOR,PATRICK: : THE AMAZING BLONDE WOMAN - DIETRICH'S STYLELONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1991. ISBN 0747510326.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner
inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Glossy, b/w subject photographic illustrated dw/dj
with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing and rubbing to edges and corners
- a small closed tear to rear,top corner.
Miniscule bumping to head+foot of spine/ backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+
fore-edges clean,contents bright,tight and
near pristine.Bright, clean, black cloth bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and b/w photographic eps.
Qrto,7-160pp [paginated] includes b/w photographic vignette illustrated half-title page,b/w subject photographic frntis,title-page,intro,6 chapters,profuse
contemporary subject b/w photographs
throughout the text,filmography, discography and bibliography.
Marlene Dietrich's impact on film audiences of the 1930s and 1940s was overwhelming.Her voice,her famous legs and her androgynous appearance,along with
the mocking attitude she adopted towards the erotic scenarios and costumes of her films,made her one of the most influential
stars of her time.The Amazing Blonde Woman is the first pictorial biography to examine Dietrich's unique style.Her individuality is revealed in Patrick O'Connor's meticulously-researched text and in the fine selection of over 150 informal,off-screen photographs,many of them never previously published.Included are features on Dietrich's make-up,her remarkable eyebrows and her use of veils, hats,shoes and even handbags.Patrick O'Connor charts Dietrich's evolution from her early years as an actress and cabaret chanteuse in the 1920s through her revolutionary trouser-wearing in the 1930s
to her surprising return to the stage in the 1960s,when she became a symbol of glamorous survival and won the hearts of a whole new generation.
The Amazing Blonde Woman also contains the first full-scale analysis of Dietrich's recording career and includes an extensive discography spanning more than half a century,from 1928 to 1978. Dietrich's voice and face have come to epitomize a whole epoch.Cecil Beaton wrote,'. . . . the old trouper never changes her tricks,because she knows they work,and because she invented them.'
Patrick O'Connor's tribute,published to coincide (then 1991) with Dietrich's ninetieth birthday,reveals as never before
the personality and originality behind the
Hollywood myth.
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