Marlene Dietrich was perhaps the most glamorous, most alluring woman of the twentieth century. In a career spanning six decades on screen and stage, she created an indelible image of mysterious sensuality and shimmering beauty that made her into and international icon.
Blue Angel is an enthralling portrait of this enchantingly enigmatic star--a book as provocative and seductive as the woman herself. The story moves from the theaters and cabarets of Berlin in the 1920s, where she struggled for recognition as an actress and developed a taste for romance of all kinds, to the Hollywood studios of the 1930s, where--under the tutelage of director Josef von Sternberg she became a screen goddess in films like Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Devil Is a Woman. Later, Dietrich forsook glamour as she saw the bloody trenches of Europe during World War II and entertained Allied troops.