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My mother the monster: Highly sexed yet aloof, Marlene Dietrich’s flawless flamboyance was spellbinding. But, as her daughter reveals in this unflinching exposé, her glacial beauty hid a very ugly truth
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MARLENE DIETRICH: THE LIFE
by Maria Riva (Pegasus Books £27.99)
Maria Riva, the only child of Marlene Dietrich, describes the all-consuming monstrousness required to be a great star in this overwhelmingly brilliant and unflinching memoir, re-released 25 years after her mother’s death.
Maria’s mother went out of her way to suppress any feelings of common humanity and kindness.
Dietrich was never spontaneously warm.
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She never laughed. Glacial stares were more her speciality.
‘My mother was like royalty. When she spoke, people listened. When she moved, people watched.’ She never once stood in a queue, ‘not even passport control’, and was ‘always amazed’, when seeing normal people in crowded places such as airports or hotel lobbies, at how ugly they were.
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