90,000 for 3 Weeks,” New York Herald Tribune, Dec. 16, 1953.FOR BREVITY, DETAILS OF INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED for this book are supplied only at the first citation; unless otherwise stated, subsequent quotations from the same source derive from the interview with that source.
1-her jaw set: Hughes Pierce, “Aged 77—and she still looks stunning,” The Sunday Times, March 7, 1978.
2-I will sing: Quoted in Newsweek, Aug. 7, 1978.
4-He who writes: Suzanne Everett, Lost Berlin (New York: Gallery Books, 1979), p. 18.
9-Sie selbst glich: Marlene Dietrich, Ich bin, Gott sei Dank, Berlinerin (Berlin: Ullstein, 1987), p. 31. (For an account of Dietrich’s publishing history, see my comments on page 294.) (New York: Grove, 1989), a translation by Salvator Attanasio of Ich bin.
9-Tu etwas: Ibid., p. 58.
9-My whole upbringing: Leslie Frewin, Dietrich (New York: Stein and Day, 1967), pp. 15–16.
13-We lived in: Marlene Dietrich, Marlene (New York: Grove, 1989), p. 22.
14-Every face looks: Everett, p. 24.
15-did not seem: Marlene, p. 22.
16-No. You can’t: MD to Maximilian Schell, in his film Marlene (1983).
16-She didn’t want: Marlene, pp. 14–15.
20-a wonderful affair: Quoted in Werner Frisch and K. W. Obermeyer, Brecht in Augsburg (Frankfurt, 1976), translated in Ronald Hayman, Brecht (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), p. 53.
23-a completely negative: Nora Hodges (trans.), George Grosz: An Autobiography (New York: Imago/Macmillan, 1983), p. 149.
26-She was anything: Geza von Cziffra (trans. Jon Zimmermann), in Renate Seydel, Marlene Dietrich: Eine Chronik ihres Lebens in Bildern und Dokumenten (Munich: Nymphenburger, 1984), p. 82.
26-a very strange: Lotte Andor to DS, May 25, 1990.
27-And if they: William Dieterle, in Seydel, p. 82.
28-Wie dann dein: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Death and the Fool (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1914); trans. Elisabeth Walter.
29-One day, Held: Unpublished memoirs of Grete Mosheim, published here with the kind permission of Mosheim’s family.
30-She tried: Stefan Lorant to DS, May 16, 1991.
32-This is too: Quoted in Mosheim memoirs.
34-One had the: William Dieterle, in Seydel, p. 82.
37-The role should: Berliner Tageblatt, Feb. 22, 1926.
38-wearing neither: Elisabeth Lennartz in Seydel, p. 82.
38-It was chic: Bill Davidson, “The Dietrich Legend,” McCall’s, March 1960, p. 170.
38-Only one woman: Käte Haack, ibid.
39-Take some pictures: New York Times, Sept. 5, 1976.
42-constantly pursued: Mia May, ibid.
43-Oh, don’t worry: Quoted by Stefan Lorant to DS, May 16, 1991.
44-She showed only: Karl Hartl in Seydel, p. 83 (trans. Jon Zimmermann).
45-I haven’t a: Quoted in Sheridan Morley, Marlene Dietrich (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976).
45-Among the girls: Neve Freie Presse, Nov. 30, 1927.
47-Marlene Dietrich sings: Herbert Jhering, in the Berliner Bösen-Courier, May 16, 1928.
48-When Dietrich mimes: Unsigned review in Film-Kurier, Sept. 6, 1928 (trans. Jon Zimmermann).
49-She simply sat: Lili Darvas, in Seydel, p. 85 (trans. Henriette Fremont).
49-Marlene waged intrigues: Mary Kiersch (interviewer), Curtis Bernhardt (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1986), p. 38.
50-rare Garboesque: New York Times, Sept. 9, 1929, p. 30.
51-plump but agile: Erich Urban, in Börsen-Zeitung, Sept. 6, 1929.
51–52-with a cold: Josef von Sternberg, Fun in a Chinese Laundry (New York: Macmillan, 1965), p. 231.
53-I feel as: Film-Kurier, Aug. 17, 1929.
54-without my knowledge: Von Sternberg, p. 154.
56-bovine listlessness: Ibid., p. 233.
56-She came to life: Ibid., p. 237.
57-von Sternberg had: Marlene, p. 51.
57-Even while rehearsals: Willi Frischauer, “The Marlene Dietrich Story,” Reynolds News Service (London), June 13, 1954.
58-Her behavior: Von Sternberg, p. 239.
58-I didn’t know: Quoted in Peter Bogdanovich, “Hollywood,” Esquire, January 1972, p. 56.
59-He pulled out: Quoted in Frank Westmore and Muriel Davidson, The Westmores of Hollywood (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1976), pp. 69–70.
59-I did not: Von Sternberg, p. 227.
60-I am Miss Dietrich: Often quoted by von Sternberg; see, e.g., “Le Montreur d’Ombres,” Cahiers du Cinéma, no. 168 (July 1965), p. 21: “Marlène, c’est moi, et elle le sait mieux que personne.”
63-Regardless: Von Sternberg, p. 242.
63-simply wasn’t ambitious: E.g., Marlene, p. 58.
64-She had pinned: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck, “Sensual Indolence Only Part of Marlene Dietrich’s Allure,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Dec. 29, 1977.
65-In Europe it: Budd Schulberg, Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince (New York: Stein and Day, 1981), p. 278.
68–69-von Sternberg controlled: John Kobal, People Will Talk (New York: Knopf, 1985), p. 529.
71-They didn’t like: Bogdanovich, art. cit., p. 56.
71-Jo was jealous: Kobal, pp. 298–99.
74-I planned to: Von Sternberg, p. 247.
74-Woman is no: F. A. Macklin, “Interview with Josef von Sternberg,” Film Heritage, vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 1965–66), pp. 5–6.
75-I would much: E.g., Paramount press release dated May 18, 1937, and, much later, the (London) Evening News, May 31, 1949.
77-The light source: Marlène D., pp. 68–69 (trans. DS); the published English version is not quite accurate in this case.
78-Turn your shoulders: Von Sternberg, p. 253.
79-I made seven: Herman Weinberg, Josef von Sternberg (New York: Dutton, 1967), pp. 126, 83; see also “Le Montreur d’Ombres, déclarations de Josef von Sternberg,” Cahiers du Cinéma, no. 168 (July 1965), p. 19.
85-to be Mr. Dietrich: New York Times, May 6, 1931.
85-Mr. von Sternberg: Quoted in the Los Angeles Herald, Sept. 28, 1931.
86-Mr. von Sternberg: Bogdanovich, art. cit.
86-living in sin: Diane Johnson, Dashiell Hammett: A Life (New York: Random House, 1983), p. 100.
87-to photograph me: Marlene, p. 97.
87-Cooper was very: Bogdanovich, art. cit.
88-Marlene worshipped: Nicholas von Sternberg to DS, May 16, 1989.
88-I had nothing: From a Paramount Studios press release dated Oct. 27, 1933, issued under MD’s name.
88-I never think: Motion Picture Classic, January 1932.
88-She attached no: Von Sternberg, p. 225.
89–90-People have said: Ruth Biery, “Is Dietrich Through?” Photoplay, Jan. 1933, p. 110.
90-I felt: New York Mirror, June 18, 1961, p. 2; see also Selma Robinson, “I couldn’t compete with my Mother,” Ladies Home Journal, October 1951, p. 56.
90-I remember: John Calendo, “Dietrich and the Devil,” Interview, November 1972.
91-I am here: “Charges Bared in Mrs. von Sternberg’s Suits on Film Star,” Los Angeles Herald, Aug. 8, 1931.
93-Clive Brook wanted: Lee Garmes to DS, Aug. 20, 1977.
94-genuine and tremendous: Vanity Fair, December 1931, p. 41.
94-careful elimination: Quoted in Homer Dickens, The Films of Marlene Dietrich (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1968), p. 103.
95-I have enjoyed: Whitney Williams, “Marlene Dietrich Hints at Quitting Hollywood,” Los Angeles Herald, Feb. 7, 1932.
99-a joy to: Sam Coslow, Cocktails for Two (New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1977), p. 127.
99-obviously on close: Dick Moore, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (New York: Harper and Row, 1984), p. 138.
99–100-I do not: Eileen Creelman, “Picture Plays and Players,” New York Sun, Sept. 28, 1933. See also Biery, art. cit., p. 29.
100-It is behind: Creelman, art. cit.
101-All right, George: Whitney Stine, The Hurrell Style: 50 Years of Photographing Hollywood (New York: John Day, 1976), p. 109.
104-Like every German: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 26, 1933.
105-a little blackbird: Jean Howard to DS, July 15, 1990.
105-seemed such: Mercedes de Acosta, Here Lies the Heart (New York: Reynal, 1960), pp. 72, 74, 103.
106-put records on: Ibid., p. 215.
106-I was moving: Ibid., p. 271.
106-sometimes twice: Ibid., p. 243.
106-You are the: Ibid., pp. 242ff.
108-This created: Davidson, art. cit., pp. 166–67.
108-I had the: Bogdanovich, art. cit., p. 57.
110-I am very: New York World-Telegram, July 29, 1933.
111-everything bad: Anthony Heilbut, Exiled in Paradise (New York: Viking, 1983), p. 34.
111-We poor Germans: Ibid., p. 321.
114-They say von Sternberg: Jack Grant, “Marlene Dietrich Answers Her Critics,” a 1934 interview: reprinted in Martin Levin, ed., Hollywood and the Great Fan Magazines (New York: Arbor House, 1970), p. 178.
114-If you want: Quoted by Joel McCrea in Kobal, p. 301.
115-He was killing: Leatrice Gilbert Fountain, Dark Star (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), p. 247.
115-loveliest dreams: Scott Donaldson, By Force of Will (New York: Viking, 1977), p. 189.
116-I never ask: A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (New York: William Morrow, 1983), p. 25.
116-run by the stars: Donaldson, p. 232.
116-She is a complete: Los Angeles Examiner, Oct. 12, 1934.
119-Von Sternberg made: Cesar Romero to DS, Oct. 2, 1988.
120-an insult to: Daily Telegraph (London), Oct. 30, 1935.
120-I am no longer: Edwin Schallert, “Dietrich Discloses Why She Left von Sternberg,” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1935.
120-He dreaded the day: Marlène D., pp. 85, 93–94.
121-My salary is: Evening Standard (London), Jan. 4, 1936.
124-fragrant and cool: Basil Rathbone, In and Out of Character (New York: Doubleday, 1962), p. 147.
125-Permitted to walk: Frank S. Nugent, New York Times, April 13, 1936, p. 15.
125-She was a: Edith Head and Paddy Calistro, Edith Head’s Hollywood (New York: Dutton, 1983), p. 29.
126-Falling into: Engstead, p. 76.
127-I adored: Fountain, p. 257.
129-I told her: Rudy Behlmer, ed., Memo from David O. Selznick (New York: Viking, 1972), pp. 100–101.
130-It’s twash: Joshua Logan, Josh: My Up and Down, In and Out Life (New York: Delacorte, 1976), pp. 87–104.
131-It isn’t that: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Feb. 23, 1936.
132-she only makes: Jacques Feyder and Françoise Rosay, Le Cinéma—notre métier (Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1946), pp. 56–58. For Harry Stradling’s recollections, see Richard Whitehall, “The Blue Angel,” Films and Filming, Oct. 1962, p. 20.
133-slipped and sprawled: Time, vol. 28, no. 22 (Nov. 30, 1936), p. 41.
133-You can have: Willi Frischauer, European Commuter (New York: Macmillan, 1964), p. 113.
135-really like brother: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., to DS, March 29, 1990.
135-only her passing: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., The Salad Days (New York: Doubleday, 1988), p. 260.
136-rarely seemed: Ibid., pp. 30–31.
at the root: Frank Nugent, New York Times, Nov. 4, 1937, p. 29.
140-Marlene Dietrich: Der Stürmer, Oct. 6, 1937 (trans. in New York Times, Oct. 7, 1937, from Reuters).
141-really a rather: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., to DS, March 29, 1990.
145-motions of secrecy: Fairbanks, pp. 273, 275.
146-I am glad: Los Angeles Examiner, June 10, 1939.
148-His melancholy: Dietrich, p. 152.
149-Nobody knows: Davidson, art. cit., p. 168.
156-sailor’s daughter: Ibid., p. 175. Remarque wrote as he felt.
156–57-an exciting and forlorn: Erich Maria Remarque (trans. Walter Sorell and Denver Lindley), Arch of Triumph (London: Hutchinson Library Services, 1946), pp. 92, 101, 103, 120.
157-Joan, he said: Ibid., pp. 145, 203.
one of the first: Dietrich, p. 153.
158-The greatest compliment: In Ed Sullivan’s syndicated column “Hollywood” (e.g., Los Angeles Herald, New York Daily News), Jan. 17, 1940.
159-I had no friends: Selma Robinson, “I couldn’t compete with my Mother,” Ladies Home Journal, October 1951, p. 56.
159-I was always: Ibid.
160-Maria is as: Duncan Underhill, “Marlene Dietrich in Pants for Seven Sinners Role,” New York World-Telegram, July 6, 1940.
161-With that wonderful: Tay Garnett with Fredda Dudley Balling, Light Your Torches and Pull Up Your Tights (New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1973), p. 245.
161-It’s very early: Pilar Wayne, with Alex Thorleifson, John Wayne—My Life with the Duke (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987), p. 39.
161-one that wouldn’t: Ibid., p. 40.
162-Unpleasant people: Dietrich, pp. 183–84.
163-giving one of the: Hollywood Reporter, Oct. 24, 1940.
165-One American critic: Charles Thomas Samuels, Encountering Directors (New York: Putnam, 1972), pp. 79–80.
166-a flop: Marlene, p. 184.
166-he wasn’t exactly: Ibid., p. 132.
166-an awfully stupid: Ibid., p. 184.
167-like an orphan: Ibid., p. 135.
168-He called her: Jean Renoir, My Life and My Films (New York: Atheneum, 1974), p. 226.
169-Oh, hello: Fred Lawrence Guiles, Tyrone Power: The Last Idol (New York: Doubleday, 1979), p. 144.
169-Gabin glanced: Ibid., pp. 144–45.
169-The mothering: Quoted to Dean Goodman by Maria Sieber in 1943; Dean Goodman to DS, May 27, 1989.
169-She is mother: Edward G. Robinson, with Leonard Spiegelgass, All My Yesterdays (New York: Hawthorn, 1973), p. 219.
169–70-almost overnight: New York Journal-American, June 21, 1941.
170-so subtly: Robinson, ibid.
171-Oh, Georgie: New York Post, May 27, 1941.
171-Watch Mama: Life, Aug. 18, 1952, p. 90.
172-She couldn’t understand: David Chierichetti, Hollywood Director (New York: Curtis, 1973), p. 177.
176-I’m not thinking: Associated Press wire release, March 9, 1942.
176-not only contributed: Bette Davis, The Lonely Life (New York: Putnam, 1962), p. 261.
177-but she also: Cheryl Crawford to DS, Aug. 18, 1983; see also her book One Naked Individual (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), pp. 117–24.
180-I cannot play: Crawford, p. 124.
181-Maria was the: Dean Goodman to DS, May 27, 1989.
183-Do you have: Juliet Benita Colman, Ronald Colman (New York: Morrow, 1975), p. 214.
184-I don’t want: Selma Robinson, art. cit.
187-He taught me: John Fisher, Call Them Irreplaceable (New York: Stein and Day, 1974), p. 143.
190-Wherever I went: Arthur Pollock, “Theater Time,” syndicated column (e.g., New York Journal-American), June 1, 1944.
190-attached themselves: Danny Thomas, with Bill Davidson, Make Room for Danny (New York: Putnam, 1991), p. 138.
190-I was more afraid: Marlene, p. 206.
190-It was my first: “Marlene Sees Night Air Fight,” United Press International wire dispatch dated Algiers, April 12, 1944.
191-I went in: Thomas, p. 139.
193-Being made prisoner: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Le Soleil et les Ombres (Paris: Laffont, 1976), p. 125; trans. DS. See also Aumont’s Souvenirs Provisoires (Paris: René Julliard, 1957), p. 229.
194-If they don’t: Louis Berg, “Dietrich Rides Again,” This Week, Aug. 13, 1944, p. 10.
194-Anyone who has: New York Post, July 2, 1944.
194-It gave me: Willi Frischauer, “The Marlene Dietrich Story,” Reynolds News (London), June 13, 1954; see also “Dietrich, the body and the soul,” Collier’s, May 14, 1954, p. 27.
194-The Germany I knew: Mel Heimer, “Dietrich ‘Home’ Again,” New York Journal-American, Aug. 26, 1944, p. 2.
195-Only the door: Col. Barney Oldfield, USAF (Ret.) to DS, May 29, 1989.
196-Dietrich was a: Ibid.
197–98-the Paris command: Baker, p. 444.
198-But Marlene: Renoir, p. 226.
199-but I would: Marlene, p. 201.
199-But, darling: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.
201-I am through: Frank Conniff, “Marlene Dietrich Quits as Film Actress,” syndicated for International News Service (e.g., New York Journal-American), Feb. 2, 1945.
203-Patton seemed to: James M. Gavin, On to Berlin (New York: Viking, 1978), p. 244.
206-Her feet: Barbara Learning, Orson Welles (New York: Viking, 1985), p. 309.
206-She is the: Sidney Skolsky, “Tintypes,” Hollywood Citizen-News, Aug. 30, 1945.
207-Marlene had stipulated: Marcel Carné, La Vie à belles dents (Paris: Jean-Vuarnet, 1979), p. 257 (trans. DS).
208-looked lovely but: Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley, eds., The Noël Coward Diaries (Boston: Little, Brown, 1982), p. 54.
208-Are you alone: Max Colpet, Sag mir, wo die Jahre sind (Munich: Georg Müller, 1981), p. 196.
209-Because he wanted: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), p. 590.
209-When I devote: Biery, art. cit.
210-I could compete: Davidson, art. cit.
212-living quietly at: Quoted in Elizabeth Wilson, “You Won’t Know Marlene,” Liberty, January 1948, p. 29.
216-a strange combination: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.
217-I’m doing the chores: Hildegarde Knef, The Gift Horse (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971), p. 222.
217-When she heard: Richard Todd, Caught in the Act (London: Hutchinson, 1986), p. 240.
218-I am not: Daily Mail (London), June 28, 1949.
219-Marlene was a: Alfred Hitchcock to DS, Sept. 13, 1976.
224-I am too old: Michael Wilding, The Wilding Way (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982), pp. 60–76.
225-What’s Liz Taylor: Ibid., p. 76.
227-I had my: Bob Thomas, “Grandma Dietrich’s Riding Piggy-Back,” Associated Press syndicated article dated April 1, 1951.
228-I’m the baby-sitter: Lillian Ross, “How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?” The New Yorker, vol. 26, no. 12 (May 13, 1950), p. 45.
228-Papa, you look: Ibid., pp. 44–46.
229-She looked at me: Ginette Spanier, It Isn’t All Mink (New York: Random House, 1960), p. 181.
230-Darling: MD to Ginette Spanier, July [21?] 1974.
232-Married?: Quoted in Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, July 15, 1951.
232-Women talk when: Ibid.
233-I had the foolish: Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg, The Celluloid Muse: Hollywood Directors Speak (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1969), p. 119; see also Peter Bogdanovich, Fritz Lang in America (London: Studio Vista, 1967), p. 77.
237-I admire men’s: Winthrop Sargeant, “Dietrich and Her Magic Myth,” Life, Aug. 18, 1952, p. 101.
237-they could almost: Rock Brynner, Yul: The Man Who Would Be King (New York: Berkley, 1991), p. 57.
238-Her movement: Leonard Blair to DS, July 23, 1991.
239-soup [and]: Kirk Douglas, The Ragman’s Son (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988), p. 192.
240-I know you’re: Ronald Schiller, “Miraculous Marlene Dietrich,” Woman’s Home Companion, vol. 80, no. 8 (Aug. 1953), p. 51.
241-Wouldn’t it: Paris Match, May 28, 1992, p. 82.
241-I invented the: Marlene, p. 227.
243-A wayfarer: Gladwin Hill, “Klondike in the Desert,” New York Times, June 7, 1953, sec. 6, p. 14.
243-the audience is: Lena Horne and Richard Schickel, Lena (New York: Doubleday, 1965), p. 234.
244-Eddie, I was: Eddie Fisher, Eddie—My Life, My Loves (New York: Harper and Row, 1981), p. 92.
245-Her voice deficiencies: Howard McClay, “Dietrich’s a real gown gal in Las Vegas debut,” Las Vegas Daily News, Dec. 17, 1953.
246-My outward appearance: Marlene, p. 229.
246-almost a mania: Jean Louis to DS, July 15, 1991.
246-Jean Louis’s creations: Marlene, p. 179.
247-Well, this is: Joe Hyams, “Miss Dietrich in Night-Club Debut, 90,000 for 3 Weeks,” New York Herald Tribune, Dec. 16, 1953.
247-Technique and control: John Fisher, Call Them Irreplaceable (New York: Stein and Day, 1974), p. 138.
247-You don’t take: Stine, p. 109.
252-Van Johnson: Jean Howard to DS, July 15, 1990.
254-taken advantage of: MD to Charles Feldman, Feb. 7, 1955.
254-fairly tiresome: Cole Lesley, Remembered Laughter (New York: Knopf, 1976), p. 346.
255-a twosome: New York Daily News, Dec. 5, 1955, p. 34.
255-Mike knew: Fisher, p. 123.
256-with her intense: Payn and Morley, p. 322.
256-in a tremendously: Ibid., p. 333.
259-You call these: Bernard Hall, “The strange, lonely world of Dietrich,” Daily Mail (London), April 19, 1985.
262-There was no talk: Learning, p. 423.
262–63-the best thing: “No Star Nonsense About Marlene Dietrich,” The Times (London), Nov. 23, 1964; see also Frank Brady, Citizen Welles (New York: Scribner, 1989), p. 500.
264-It is not: Payn and Morley, p. 361.
264-too well: Radie Harris, “Broadway Ballyhoo,” Hollywood Reporter, Dec. 23, 1985, p. 28.
265-she always admitted: Bernard Hall, in The (Belfast) Sunday News, May 17, 1992.
265-I understand you’re: Robert Anderson to DS, Oct. 4, 1989.
265-She looks ravishing: Payn and Morley, p. 422.
266-She plugged in: “The Day I Called On ‘Dr.’ Dietrich,” Sunday Express (London), Dec. 12, 1959.
267-Let’s not fool: Lloyd Shearer, “Marlene Dietrich: How to be glamorous and happy at 55,” Parade, Aug. 2, 1959, p. 6.
267-But enuff: “The Queen Is Not Amused,” Show, June 1963.
268-I don’t ask: Ed McCarthy, “Marlene, You’re Incredible!” This Week, Nov. 29, 1959, p. 5.
268-I didn’t really: Davidson, art. cit., p. 164.
268-boring and: Payn and Morley, p. 419.
268-You could say: Art Buchwald, “La Dietrich Great Anywhere She Goes,” International Herald Tribune, Dec. 13, 1959.
269-a man who took: Marlene, pp. 230ff.
270-She was in: Payn and Morley, p. 433.
270-If they had: Sargeant, art. cit., p. 94.
271-Who showed: Cited in “How Will Berlin Treat Marlene on Return?”, New York Post, March 21, 1960.
271-An impudent wench: “Marlene Go Home! Briefe und Flügblätter zur Deutschlandtournee im Mai 1960,” Werner Sudendorf, ed., Marlene Dietrich: Dokumente, Essays, Filme (Munich: Carl Hanser, 1977), vol. 1, pp. 20–21.
271-Aren’t you: Ibid., p. 21.
272-The major error: Jean Améry, “Die Künstlerin Dietrich und die Öffentliche Sache,” in Sudendorf, op. cit., pp. 15, 19.
272-I am singing: Joseph Barry, “Marlene in Berlin: ‘Love and Hate,’ ” New York Post, May 2, 1960, p. 4.
273-I am not: Joseph Barry, “Marlene Faces Her Toughest Audience,” New York Post, May 3, 1960, p. 8.
274-Dear Marlene: Life, May 23, 1960.
274-a woman who: Gaston Coblentz, “Marlene Dietrich on Stage in Berlin After 30 Years,” New York Herald Tribune, May 4, 1960.
275-That’s the old: “Music: Suitcase in Berlin,” Newsweek, May 16, 1960, p. 80.
276-never again: “Has Marlene ‘Had It’ in Germany?” Variety, June 15, 1960.
277-As an actress: Roland Cosandey, ed., Chronique et filmographie, 40 ans du Festival internazionale del film Locarno (Locarno, 1988), pp. 113, 115. Speaking in French, Dietrich said, “Comme actrice j’appartiens à l’album de souvenirs, et cet album reste muet.”
278-He doesn’t look: Neil Rau, “ ‘Judgment’ Headache,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, May 7, 1961.
278-She came on: Quoted by Stanley Kramer to DS, May 8, 1991.
278–79-a typical: Quoted in Seydel, p. 29.
279-She really believed: Quoted in the Evening Standard (London), May 7, 1992, p. 5.
280-The showmanship: Variety, April 17, 1974.
280-Well, I would have: Rosalie MacRae, “Turning every head in Paris today,” Daily Express (London), April 23, 1962.
282-a remarkable piece: Richard Buckle, ed., Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–1974 (New York: Times Books, 1979), pp. 417–18 (diary entry for June 16, 1973).
282-I give the audience: E.g., Newsweek, Dec. 7, 1964.
283-How have you: New York Times (Associated Press wire report), May 20, 1964.
283-I have a: New York Journal-American (United Press International wire report), May 22, 1964.
283-You must be: New York Herald Tribune, May 20, 1964.
283–84-That horrible woman: Rex Reed, “Dietrich: She Just Wants to Be Alone,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8, 1973.
284-You with the: Jim Sirmans, “Marlene Spectacular,” Vogue, February 1973, p. 201.
285-You are all: “It’s Dietrich vs. Newsmen,” Los Angeles Times (Reuters), Feb. 1, 1975.
285-It is not: Vivien Byerley to DS, June 12, 1990.
285-the least enjoyable: Alexander H. Cohen to DS, March 31, 1990.
286-She said repeatedly: Peter White to DS, Nov. 8, 1991.
286-I told her: Frederick Combs to DS, June 12, 1991.
287-at times intolerable: Sirmans, art. cit.
287-How sweet: Radie Harris, “Broadway Ballyhoo,” Hollywood Reporter, July 28, 1972.
288-All I demand: Payn and Morley, p. 653.
288-Oh, he could: Reed, art. cit.; see also Lesley, p. 471.
289-There was someone: Reed, art. cit.
289-When he became: Marlene, pp. 241–42.
291-a perfectionist: Stan Freeman, New York Daily News, May 7, 1992, p. 30.
291-her quick eye: Hall, art. cit.
292-I need the money: Reed, art. cit.
292–93-chunks of indigestible: Marlene, p. 247.
293-Poor Rudi: To Maximilian Schell, 1983.
298-All her life: Dick Lemon, “Marlene Dietrich,” People, Sept. 3, 1984, p. 93.
299-made herself: Hall, art. cit.
299-I didn’t know: Hall, Evening Standard (London), May 7, 1992, p. 5.
300-United Germany’s Joy: New York Times, Oct. 4, 1990, pp. 1, A8.
300-I’m still nostalgic: Quoted in New York Times, Jan. 14, 1991, p. B4.
300-Thanks a million: “Notes on People,” New York Times, Sept. 26, 1980.
301-You have done it: Anthony Clavet, quoted by Robert Colbaugh to DS, Jan. 23, 1992.