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Acosta, Mercedes de, 223–24
Adalbert, Prince, 77
Adler, Gusti, 59
Adorno, Theodor W., 35, 532n38
Adventures of a Ten-Mark Note (film), 130
Africa:
Kau people in, 444, 515
Nuba people of, 436–44, 446–47, 514, 520, 521–22
tourists in, 445
AGFA, 134, 555n80
Aherne, Brian, 224–25, 503
Albers, Hans, 157, 263
Albu, Ruth, 250
Allgeier, Sepp:
and Fanck, 103, 109, 442
Leni’s relationship with, 267
and mountain films, 91, 94, 115, 281, 442
and Nazi party films, 267, 268, 279, 280, 281, 321, 327, 442
as skier, 94, 103, 120, 281
and Trenker, 120, 267
and World War I, 120
Allianz-Verleih, 428
All Quiet on the Western Front (film), 148
Amann, Max, 431, 432,
566n1
Ambler, Eric, 504
Angel (film), 243
Angst, Richard, 109, 111, 115, 119, 122, 123
“Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (song), 364
an-Numeiri, Jaafar Mohammed, 573n8
Anti-Nazi League, 314
Archipenko, Alexander, 242
Arch of Triumph (film), 389
Arendt, Hannah, 235
Arnoldi, Frau, 47–48
Arthur, Jean, 391
Attenborough, Richard, 450
Attolico, Bernardo, 296
Auden, W. H., 452
August Wilhelm, Prince, 261
Auschwitz concentration camp, 338–39, 391, 517
Austria:
Allied occupation of, 414–15
German invasion of, 308
Leni’s deportation from, 419
liberation of, 411
Seebichl House in, 412–13, 415, 416
Avalanche (film), 114–20, 127, 128, 162, 435
Bach, Steven, 287
Bacharach, Burt, 460–61, 462, 466, 467, 479–80, 483–84, 487
Baker, Josephine, 62
Balázs, Béla:
and The Blue Light, 126, 127–28, 129, 130–31,
136, 137, 312, 513, 556–57n97
early years of, 129–30
and Leni’s changing memories, 312, 552n39, 556–57n97
and Leni’s power of attorney, 275
Leni’s use of, 278
and Madame Doesn’t Want Children, 68
“The Revolutionary Film” by, 68
Balbo, Italo, 261, 327–28
Balmain, 452
Bankhead, Tallulah, 448
Banton, Travis, 200, 220, 458, 545n42
Bardot, Brigitte, 432
Barry, Iris, 512
Battleship Potemkin (film), 263
Bauer, Herbert (Balász), 129
Baum, Vicki, 24, 233
Beckett, Samuel, 452
Beinhorn, Elly, 139
Bel Ami (film), 70
Belling, Rudolf, 242
Below, Nicolaus von, 323, 557n2
Bendow, Wilhelm, 62
Benitz, Albert, 122
Berber, Anita, 14–15, 18
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 463
Berger, Helmut, 545n32
Bergman, Ingrid, 246, 389
Bergner, Elisabeth, 57, 75, 128, 238, 259
Berlin:
beauty ideal in, 85
boxing in, 59, 60, 85
Brandenburg Gate, 22
dance in, 18–20, 23, 26
death squads in, 277
Deutsches Theater, 56–59, 80, 163, 246–47
Dietrich home in, 3, 76
film ball (1955), 432
as film setting, 391, 394
food rationing in, 316
immigrants in, 7
industry and technology in, 8, 12, 13
instability in, 191, 203–4, 208, 262
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, 75, 153
Komödie Theater, 71
lack of tradition in, 23–24, 76–77
Marlene’s films shown in, 207, 210, 213, 240, 351
Marlene’s stage performances in, 462–66
Nazi party in, 211, 213
nightlife in, 74–75, 79
Olympic Games (1936) in, 294, 295, 296, 297–98
post-World War I in, 22–24, 45–46, 53–54, 59–60, 76–77
post–World War II in, 380–81
pre–World War II politics in, 203–4, 208
Reinhardt theaters in, 56, 62, 71, 80, 162
revolution in, 45, 59, 60
Schauspielschule Ernst Busch, 530n6
Schwannecke wine bar in, 74–75, 79, 113
sexual ambiguities in, 62, 63, 72–73, 74, 86, 154
theater in, 56, 57
Thielscher Girls in, 61–62
Tiller Girls in, 61
Titania Palace Theater, 462–63
trendy, 84–85
World War I in, 11, 22, 38, 41–43
World War II in, 339, 353
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (film), 278
Berlin Symphony Orchestra, 306
Bernhardt, Kurt, 77, 263
Bertelsmann, publisher, 500
Binswanger, Herbert, 529n18
Birkin, Jane, 507
Black Cargo (film), 434–35
Black Fox (film), 470–71
“Black Market” (song), 392
Black Thursday, 160
Blonde Venus (film), 204–7, 208, 210
Blue Angel, The (film), 162–73, 183, 211
authors of, 155–56, 162, 169, 170
Jannings as star in, 155, 156, 158, 163–64, 166–68, 169, 172
Marlene created by von Sternberg in, 159, 165, 167, 172, 476
Marlene in, 155, 163–73, 349, 370, 385, 473
Marlene’s casting in, 112–13, 157–59
Marlene’s triumph in, 169, 172–73, 178–79
music for, 163, 168, 191
preliminaries for, 152–59
premiere of, 171–72
remakes of, 383, 394, 482, 505
set of, 542–43n87
as sound film, 162, 166, 171
story of, 169–71
U.S. version of, 169
Blue Light, The (film), 126–29, 130–38
awards and honors for, 137, 307, 572n5
and Balázs, 126, 127–28, 130–31, 136, 137, 139, 312, 556–57n97
cast and crew for, 127–29, 130, 513, 556–57n97
comparisons with, 135, 333
critical reception of, 137–38
and Fanck, 126–27, 136
filming of, 131, 134–35
and Hitler, 145, 148, 150–51
Leni’s acting in, 135, 136, 137
Leni’s directorial debut with, 126–27, 136, 137, 278
premiere of, 136–37, 148
revival of, 275, 312, 313, 436, 512
screenplay for, 126, 129, 131, 136
story of, 131–33, 135–36
success of, 259
tour with, 143
Blumenthal, Mr., 180–81
Bogdanovich, Peter, 230
Bois, Curt, 62
Böll, Heinrich, 500
Borchert, Wolfgang, 500
Bormann, Martin, 334, 335, 341, 413, 422
Borzage, Frank, 231
Bouché, René, 487
Boursier, Marcel, 214
Bowie, David, 500
“Boys in the Back Room, The” (song), 348, 349, 364, 451
Brancusi, Constantin, 242
Brandt, Willy, 465
Braun, Eva, 334, 423
Braun, Lily, 34
Braun, Otto, 34
Brauner, Atze, 465
Brecht, Bertolt, 59, 60, 75, 384
Drums in the Night, 54
Brecht, Bertolt, and Kurt Weill:
Mahagonny, 532n38
Songspiele, 532n38
The Threepenny Opera, 86, 153, 532n38
Bronnen, Arnolt, Parricide, 54
Brooks, Louise, 68–69
Brückner, Wilhelm, 145, 149
Bruhn, Ada, 19
Brundage, Avery, 314
Brüning, Heinrich, 147, 149, 171, 203
Brynner, Yul, 403–5, 454–55, 459, 461–62, 477, 480
Buchanan, Jack, 450
By Divine Right (film), 196
Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, The (film), 128, 297
Café de Paris, London, 450–52
Café Electric (film), 69, 70
Cagney, James, 137
Cameron, David, 465
Cannes Film Festival, 510
Capote, Truman, 459
Card, James, 512
Carmen (film), 45
Carné, Marcel, 357, 383
Carpenter, Ken, 302
Carstairs, Marion Barbara “Joe,” 251–52
Cartellieri, Carmen, 536n94
Casablanca (film), 130
Catherine the Great (film), 238
Cerrutti, Vittorio, 260
Chanel, Coco, 486
Charell, Erik, 62–63
Chekhova, Olga, 137
Chevalier, Maurice, 208, 209, 213, 224, 462
Chirac, Jacques, 501
Chopin, Frédéric, 80
Christie, Agatha, 89
Witness for the Prosecution, 458
Churchill, Winston, 89, 350
Ciano, Countess Edda Mussolini, 296
Cinémathèque Française, 512
Clair, René, 278, 351
Clift, Montgomery, 469
Cobalt 60 (film), 432
Cocteau, Jean, 462
Cohen, Alexander, 487
Cohen, Emanuel, 205
Collignon, Ilse, 557n7
Columbia Pictures, 460
Cooper, Gary, 183, 184, 188, 471
Coppola, Francis Ford, 446, 512
Correll, Ernst Hugo, 161
Coward, Noël, 403, 450, 454, 462, 481, 482, 488, 492, 499
Crawford, Joan, 137, 240, 247
Cruise, Tom, 521
Curtiz, Michael (Mihály Kertész), 130
Czechoslovakia, German threats against, 313, 315
Czinner, Paul, 128
Dagover, Lil, 77
d’Albert, Eugen, 330
dance:
abstraction of, 83
ballroom, 23
body as temple of, 18–19
classical ballet, 21, 23
expression through the body in, 22, 23, 46, 82, 83
and gymnastics, 18, 23, 46, 83, 85
harmony of mind and body, 19
Mazdaznan movement, 83
méthode rhythmique, 19
modern, 18–20, 21, 24–26, 80
physical elasticity achieved via, 85
as rhythmic thinking, 82
women in, 20, 23, 26–27
Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg (film), 536n94
Davis, Joe, 460
Dayan, Moshe, 467
Day of Freedom—Our Wehrmacht—Nuremberg 1935 (film), 290, 291–92, 323, 415, 416–17, 515
DeBakey, Michael, 489
de Gaulle, Charles, 361, 368, 486–87
Dehmel, Richard, 34
Delahaye, Michel, 305
Delon, Alain, 462
De Sica, Vittorio, 426, 432, 456
Desire (film), 231–32, 240
Dessau, Paul, 115
De Stijl movement, 533n55
Destry Rides Again (film), 347–49, 354, 406
Deutsche Grammophon, 468
Devil Is a Woman, The (film), 227–28, 240
Devil’s General, The (film), 106
Diem, Carl, 294
Diessl, Gustav, 108, 121
Dieterle, William, 362, 465
Dietrich, Elisabeth Ottilie (sister):
birth of, 5
childhood of, 6–7
death of, 468, 488
discipline instilled in, 6–7, 66
and family background, 3–7
financial support from Marlene, 468–69
letters to and from Marlene, 468
post–World War II, 399, 468–69
as teacher, 53
teen years of, 30, 31, 38, 43
Dietrich, Hermann (uncle), 65–66
Dietrich, Josefine (Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josefine Felsing) (mother):
in Berlin, 194, 202–3, 212, 225, 351, 352, 363, 380, 381, 503
death of, 381, 382, 385
and family life, 31–32, 37–39, 44, 66
first husband of, 5, 6
hopes resting on her children, 38–39, 66
Marlene in U.S., 171, 194, 208, 236–38, 351
Marlene’s financial support of, 208
and Marlene’s marriage, 64
and Marlene’s schooling, 46–49
and Prussian pride, 31
punctuality and discipline enforced by, 6–7, 30, 31, 37, 39, 44, 55, 66, 78
second husband of, 30–31, 37–38
social status as concern of, 31, 43, 56, 61, 64, 76
and World War I, 37–38, 46
Dietrich, Louis Erich Otto (father), 3–6, 43
Dietrich, Marie Magdalene, see Dietrich, Marlene
Dietrich, Marlene:
and acting career, 55–56, 57–61, 71, 78–79, 230
affairs of, 70–71, 75, 167–68, 196, 209, 222–25, 240–41, 243–45, 251, 353–59, 364–65, 368, 371, 379–80, 381, 385, 401, 403–5, 454–55, 457, 460–62, 479, 480; see also specific names
and agents, 231, 247, 255, 387, 399–400, 402, 406, 450
and aging, 222, 229, 230, 350, 360, 375, 383, 387–88, 402, 403, 404, 405, 407, 410, 449–50, 452, 459, 468, 475, 477, 480, 483–84, 486, 490–93, 497–510
ambition of, 58, 61, 66, 77, 79, 164
awards and honors to, 395, 452, 464, 466, 467, 474, 487, 509, 563n26
book collection of, 509
boxing lessons taken by, 59
as businesswoman, 467–68, 489–90, 501–2
charity work of, 402
childhood of, 6–7, 36, 363, 499
citizenship of, 65, 246–47, 255, 256, 349, 351, 352
in commercials, 485
and cosmetic surgery, 491
critical reviews of, 68, 69, 73, 350, 361, 451, 500
death of, 510, 572n22
descriptions of, 59, 79, 408–9, 464, 484
diary and dreams of, 30, 32–34, 36, 38, 39–41, 42, 44, 55, 69, 79
discipline instilled in, 6–7, 30, 31, 37, 39, 78, 230, 374, 406, 489
entertaining U.S. troops, 70, 362–67, 370–71, 373–76, 463
estate of, 508–10
fading popularity of, 246, 247, 254, 350–51, 355, 383, 385, 387, 388, 399, 402
falls from the stage, 466, 479, 488–89, 493, 499
and fame, 72, 75, 186, 190, 192, 232–33, 255
and family ideal, 32, 39, 40, 43, 167, 193, 250, 257, 401–2
and Fanck, 139
fears of, 374, 384, 385, 387, 397, 405, 509
financial support of others, 71, 76, 79, 208, 215, 222, 223, 251, 255, 359, 369, 371, 396–97, 399, 455–56, 468–69, 477, 492–93
friends of, 408–9, 480, 482, 503, 504
as grandmother, 395–96, 397, 398, 401, 403, 459, 462, 476
health issues of, 387, 388, 474, 477–79, 486, 489, 490, 491, 493, 508, 510
and her daughter, 66; see also Riva, Maria
and her grandmother, 32–33, 36, 43, 53, 59, 60, 401
and her mother, see Dietrich, Josefine
home movies of, 241, 256, 358
homesick and unhappy in U.S., 181–82, 183, 190, 193, 194, 208, 212, 215, 225, 233–34, 390
income and finances of, 56, 60, 187, 192, 208, 209, 238, 251, 255, 256, 351, 359, 360, 369, 371–72, 379, 387, 391, 396–97, 399, 449, 456, 463, 464, 467–68, 487, 488, 500, 505, 509–10, 570n45
isolation of, 178, 382, 388–90, 449, 471, 475, 478, 479, 504–10
Just Take My Life, 481–82, 498–99, 500–501, 503, 505
legs of, 61, 63, 364, 370, 398, 409, 453, 464, 477, 489, 506, 508
letters to and from lovers, 70, 209, 211, 224–25, 238, 255, 364–65, 368–69, 401, 405; see also specific names
lifestyle of, 58–59, 71, 74–75, 79, 193–94, 215, 232–34, 236, 249, 457
loss of virginity, 49
Marlene Dietrich’s ABC, 481–82
and Marlene film, 502–3
marriage of, 63–67; see also Sieber, Rudolf Emilian
medications of, 473–74
memorabilia of, 363, 396, 467, 508, 571n1
monocle worn by, 61, 65, 67, 78
move to Hollywood, 168–69, 171–73, 177–82, 187, 200
movie roles of, 67–71, 77–78, 179–87, 188–90, 197–200, 204–5, 212, 216–17, 219–21, 227–28, 231, 238–40, 308, 347–51, 359–61, 370, 386–87, 391, 392, 400, 401, 402, 406, 458, 470, 471, 500; see also Blue Angel, The; other titles
movies as escape for, 39–40, 41, 44
musical saw of, 70, 196, 364
musical talents of, 78
music and dance lessons of, 46, 49, 55, 69
new name for herself, 34
as nightclub singer, 410, 448–54, 459–61, 465–68, 472–75, 477, 478, 479, 480, 485, 489–90
in Paris, 213–15, 249–50, 379–80, 381, 383–84, 388, 397–98, 452, 462, 475, 484, 497, 499, 501, 504–10
physical appearance of, 59, 66, 68, 73, 408
poems written by, 505, 508
post–World War I, 53–79, 383
post–World War II, 383–84, 385, 388–90, 396, 398
as prisoner of her own legend, 492
professional contacts of, 67, 71, 76–77
Prussian pride of, 43, 79, 466, 474
public image of, 187, 233, 238, 248–49, 358, 370
quest for adventure, 39
radio broadcasts of, 372–73, 402, 459
return trips to Berlin, 190–92, 380–81, 462–66
and schooling, 33–34, 35, 40, 46–49
and sexual ambiguities, 73
in show business, 61–63, 65, 71–73, 156, 448–49, 483–85
songs of, 77, 179, 184, 191–92, 212, 347, 348, 349, 364, 373, 392, 393, 400, 451, 461, 467, 474–75, 500
suspected of being a German spy, 561n34
teen years of, 30–49
and television, 459, 487, 501, 509, 571n67
transformation for her roles, 196–97, 199–200, 245–46, 459–60, 473–75, 568n10
in U.S., 171, 180–90, 192–257, 351
and USO, 362–67, 370–71, 373–76
wardrobe of, 68, 69, 79, 165–66, 172, 180, 192, 198, 214, 220, 232, 363, 367, 368, 369, 374–75, 393, 400–401, 448–49, 452, 454, 458, 464, 482, 484–85, 505, 506
wheelchair of, 508
work ethic of, 58, 78, 458
and World War I, 30, 34–38, 41–43, 48
and World War II, 351–52, 361, 362–76, 382–83, 474
Dietrich, Otto, 149
Dietrich, Sepp, 149
Dior, Christian, 400–401, 402, 423, 452, 506
Dirksen, Viktoria von, 261
Dishonored (film), 188–90
Disney, Walt, 315
Dix, Otto, 14
Döblin, Alfred, Berlin Alexanderplatz, 161
Docks of New York, The (film), 112
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (film), 54
Dodd, William E., 292
Dolly Sisters, 73
Domela, Cesar, 533n55
Dos Passos, John, 227–28
Douglas, Louis, 62
Dreier, Hans, 545n40
Dresden:
Riefenstahl’s move to, 20
Wigman’s school of dance in, 24–26
Dunaway, Faye, 514
Duncan, Isadora, 18, 528n10
Duse, Eleonora, 57
Edington, Harry, 231, 246, 247, 255
Eduardowa, Eugenia, 82, 533n54
Eggebrecht, Axel, 535n83
Eisenstein, Sergei, 187, 209, 263, 278
Eisner, Lotte, 59, 407
Eitel Friedrich, Prince, 77
Elisabeth, Empress, 89
Emil and the Detectives (film), 128
Ertl, Hans, 122, 142, 290–91, 297, 299, 327, 442, 556n94
Esser, Hermann, 431
Europe, Nazi takeovers in, 70, 249, 257, 294, 308, 331
Express-Film Company, 94
Eysoldt, Gertrud, 57
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 240–41, 242, 450, 459
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr., 111, 183
Falkenberg, Paul, 108
“Falling in Love Again” (song), 77, 179, 451, 482, 489,
499
Fanck, Arnold, 88–106, 132, 134, 297
and Avalanche, 114–17, 162
birth and background of, 93
and Blue Light, 126–27, 136
in counterintelligence, 120
and Great Leap, 103–6
and Holy Mountain, 90–99, 101
and Leni, 88, 90–106, 110, 114, 117, 119–20, 122, 125, 136, 139–40, 262, 267, 304, 419, 442
and Lowlands, 335
and Miracle of the Snowshoe, 94, 103
and Mountain of Destiny, 88, 90, 94
as NSDAP member, 337
obsession with mountains, 94, 122–23
and Piz Palü, 108–11, 116, 120
and Reich chancellery film, 337
sadism of, 109, 125, 535n91
and S.O.S. Iceberg, 138–43, 152
war veterans in films of, 122
and White Frenzy, 119, 124–25, 140
Fangauf, Eberhard, 264, 266–67
Fashion Side of Hollywood, The (film), 232
Faust (film), 154
FBI, 561n34
Fedora (film), 571n13
Feilchenfeldt, Walter, 256
Feld, Hans, 114, 117
Feldman, Charles, 387, 399–400, 402, 406, 450
Fellini, Federico, 428
Felsing, Albert, 5, 32
Felsing, Elisabeth, 32–33, 36, 43, 53, 59, 60, 401
Felsing, Hasso Conrad, 30, 77, 192
Felsing, Jolly, 76, 77, 117, 237
Felsing, Willibald, 32, 36, 76, 77
Felsing family, 5, 32
social and professional contacts in, 77
and the theater, 55
and Wilhelmine Germany, 41, 53, 61
feminist film festivals, 446
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 75, 119
Feuchtwanger, Marta, 119
Film-Kurier, 264
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 247
Flame of New Orleans, The (film), 351
Flanner, Janet, 215, 419
Flaubert, Gustave, 197
Fleckhaus, Willy, 443
Fleming, Robert, 450
Flesch, Carl, 49
Flickenschildt, Elisabeth, 328
Foreign Affair, A (film), 390–95, 399, 459, 571–72n15
Forst, Willi, 69, 70–71, 171, 209, 233, 503
Forster-Larrinaga, Robert, 156
4628 Meter High on Skis: Climbing Monte Rosa (film), 94
Fournier, Dominique, 397
Fraenkel, Ernst, 258
France:
Austria occupied by, 414–15
German occupation of, 331, 357
Marlene with USO in, 373–74
Paris retaken by Allies, 340
prelude to World War II, 250–51, 252, 256, 257
“Train Bleu,” 373
war declared by, 353
Franco, Francisco, 331
Franco-Prussian War, 53
Frankfurt Book Fair, 445
Fräulein Else (film), 128
Frederick the Great, 3
Free French Forces, 361–62
Freeman, Stan, 488–89
Freiligrath, Ferdinand, “O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst,” 503
Frentz, Walter, 122, 267, 268, 280, 297, 327
Freud, Sigmund, 21
Freund, Karl, 128
Frick, Wilhelm, 273
Friedrich, Caspar David, 94
Friedrich, Kaiser, 33
Froitzheim, Otto, 28, 29, 84, 87
Frost, Robert, 471
Führer Builds His Reich Capital, The (filmstrip), 336–37
Funk, Walter, 335
Furthman, Jules, 545n40
Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 426
Gabin, Jean, 356–59
death of, 498
end of affair with, 384, 385, 389, 396–97, 398, 399, 452
and film roles, 357, 383, 385–87
and Free French Forces, 361–62
letters to and from Marlene, 364–65, 368, 379–80
Marlene’s affair with, 356, 357–59, 361–62, 364–65, 368–69, 371, 379, 382, 383, 384, 486
marriage to Fournier, 397, 405, 462
Gable, Clark, 137
Gainsbourg, Serge, 506
Gance, Abel, 278
Garbo, Greta, 106, 137, 187, 223, 231, 263, 349, 356, 505
Garden of Allah (film), 238–39
Garland, Judy, 469, 473
Garmes, Lee, 184, 545n40
Gavin, James M., 381, 382, 384–85, 407, 562n4
George, Heinrich, 75, 279
George Eastman House, Rochester, 513
Georgi, Yvonne, 24–25
Geriatrea, 469
German Nansen Society, 437
German National Association of Visual Arts, 537n122
Germany:
anti-Semitism in, 314
and Battle of Stalingrad, 336
compulsory military service in, 290, 295
currency reform in, 425
delusions of grandeur in, 45
exiles in U.S. from, 233–35, 259
expressionism in, 532n38
extraordinary year (1923), 27
Federal Republic, 425
industry and technology in, 13, 60
inflation in, 26–27, 54, 60, 63, 73, 81
instability in, 63, 160, 191, 203, 208
Kostümfilme in, 531n28
Kristallnacht in, 314
Marlene’s assets in, 208, 209, 225
Marlene’s films accepted in, 240
Marlene’s stage performances in, 462–67
military films in, 291–92
mountain films in, 88–101, 102–11, 115–23, 129, 273, 287, 413, 434, 534n72
Munich Agreement (1938), 313
Nazi Party in, see National Socialism
New Woman in, 22–24, 45, 57, 60, 68, 85–86, 115
Night of the Long Knives in, 277
1920s in, 27, 73, 532n38, 533n49
and Olympic Games (1936), 294, 295, 296, 297–98, 444
postwar films in, 426
post–World War I, 22, 53–54, 59–60, 85–86, 122
post–World War II, 411–12, 419
prelude to World War II in, 249, 287–88
Reichstag dissolved, 149
revolution of 1918 in, 10, 43, 45, 53, 59, 60
Sedan Day in, 53
Siegfried Line in, 330
stock market crash and world economic crisis (1929), 160, 208
Third Reich, 258, 421, 446
upward mobility sought in, 83
war-crimes trials in, 415–16, 419
Weimar Republic, 20, 22, 57, 61, 69, 79, 83, 147, 161, 171, 258, 475
World War I in, 11, 22, 34–38, 41–43
World War II in, see World War II
Gerron, Kurt, 163
Gershwin, George, 62, 73
Gert, Valeska, 26
Giacometti, Alberto, 462
Gilda (film), 448
Gillhausen, Rolf, 443, 445
Ginzburg, Carlo, 190
Gladitz, Nina, 517
Glas, Uschi, 521
Goddard, Paulette, 453, 485–86
and approved films, 263, 267
and banned films, 148
and banned songs, 373
death of, 412
diaries of, 422
and Leni’s films, 260–61, 263–64, 273, 274, 279, 280, 287, 288, 290, 292, 295, 296, 300, 303, 304, 305–6, 309, 328, 330, 332, 336, 341, 413, 421, 424
and Marlene, 240, 246–47
and Ministry of Propaganda, 262–63, 266, 305, 309, 321, 322, 328, 413
and Nazi rize to power, 21
socializing with Leni, 150–51, 260–62, 263–64, 307, 315, 334, 422
Goebbels, Magda, 150, 151, 260, 261
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von:
“Just Take My Life,” 500
“Reynard the Fox,” 470
Goetz, Ben, 303
Golden Earrings (film), 387
Gone With the Wind (film), 349
Goodman, Dean, 359, 382
Göring, Emmy, 431, 566n1
Göring, Hermann, 151, 261, 277, 292, 431
Gotthart, Bernhard, 94
Göttler, Fritz, 426
Goulding, Edmund, 263
Grant, Cary, 206
Granz, Norman, 462, 463
Great Depression, 204, 232, 235
Greatest Earthly Joy on Horseback, The (short film), 556n86
Great Leap, The (film), 103–6, 127
Great War, see World War I
Greenland, film shooting in, 138–43, 293, 335
Grimm-Reiter, Helene, 13–14
Grosskopf, Walter, 316
Grosz, George, 99
Guiness, Alec, 450
Guitry, Sasha, 311
Gulbranssen, Trygve, Beyond Sing the Woods, 331
Haas, Willy, 39
Habsburg Empire, 63
Haffner, Sebastian, 27, 35, 53, 160, 171, 262
Hameister, Willy, 297
Hammett, Dashiell, 193
Hampton, Hope, 482
Hanfstaengl, Ernst, 150, 151, 261–62
Harrison, Joan, 504
Harrison, Rex, 459
Hassell, Ulrich von, 296
Hauser, Arnold, 130
Hays Code, 201, 545n42
Hayworth, Rita, 352, 457
Head, Edith, 458
Heiden, Konrad, 293
“Heidenröslein” (song), 212
Heimatfilm (sentimental film in rural setting), 92
Hellman, Lillian, 452
death of, 471
Green Hills of Africa, 433–35, 436
and Leni, 432–34
and Marlene, 373–74, 406, 407–8, 453, 499
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 373, 374, 453
Henning, Hanna, 137
Hepburn, Audrey, 402
Hepburn, Katharine, 247
Hermès accessories, 200
Hess, Rudolf, 268, 271, 273, 284, 334, 415
Hessel, Franz, 190, 507
Heuser, Kurt, 434
Hilpert, Heinz, 246–47
Himmler, Heinrich, 35, 286
Hindenburg, Paul von, 42, 77, 147–48, 276, 277
Hinkel, Hans, 265–67, 341
Hintner, Cornelius, 536n94
Hinze, Ingetraud, 396
Hitchcock, Alfred, 400
Hitchens, Gordon, 419
Hitler, Adolf:
attempted assassination of, 343
charisma of, 144, 268, 269, 271, 518
death of, 412, 413
and Leni, 28, 144–47, 149–52, 258–65, 267–69, 277–79, 283–84, 289–91, 292–93, 305–9, 331, 340, 421, 423, 518
and Leni’s films, 136, 148, 260, 261, 267, 271–72, 273–75, 277–78, 283–90, 291, 292–93, 295, 300, 305–7, 311–12, 321–23, 328, 329, 337, 424, 518
lifestyle of, 150
losing self-control, 313
loss of power, 343, 367
and Marlene’s films, 240
and Marlene’s postwar stage performances, 463, 467
Mein Kampf, 149, 151, 293, 331, 431
movies about, 470–71
and Night of the Long Knives, 277
at the opera, 553–54n55
and party members, 276–77
postwar investigations about, 416
rise to power, 143–52, 203, 211, 213, 259, 264, 267, 431
takeovers in Europe, 70, 249, 257, 315
and the Volk, 268, 269, 288, 427
Wilder’s triumph over, 393–94
and World War II, 257, 313, 315, 319–23, 326–27, 331, 334, 335, 336, 367
Hitler Over Germany (film), 266
Hitler Youth, 285–86
Hitler Youth in the Mountains (film), 266
Hobsbawm, Eric, 141
Hobsbawm, Sidney, 141
Hoffmann, Erna, 19
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 150, 261
Hohenzollern dynasty, 43
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 99
Hollaender, Friedrich, 62, 158–59, 163, 168, 191, 233, 347, 393
Hollywood:
“box office poison” in, 247, 257
and Depression, 204, 232
exiles from Germany in, 233–35
film industry in, 236
Hays Code in, 201, 545n42
Leni boycotted in, 313–15, 415, 418, 514
Marlene’s life in, 193–94, 215, 232–34, 236, 249, 358, 389, 457
Marlene’s move to, 168–69, 171–73, 177–82, 187, 200
postwar, 504
scandals in, 201
in wartime, 351–52, 354, 372, 394
Hollywood Canteen, 352
Hollywood Victory Committee, 351–52
Holy Mountain, The (film), 90–99, 100–103, 145, 535n83
Homecoming (propaganda film), 70
Hörmann, Gheo von, 439
Horst Wessel Song, 272, 273, 289
Hugenberg, Alfred, 65, 77, 211
Huston, John, 351
Ickes, Paul, 138
Ihering, Herbert, 60
I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (film), 69, 399
“Illusions” (song), 393
Image, 513
Impressions of the Deep (film), 523
Internal Revenue Service, 256
International Exposition (1937), Paris, 307
International Olympics Committee, 294
Interview, 511–12
Isherwood, Christopher, 452
Israel, Marlene’s stage performances in, 466–67, 479
Italy:
Leni’s visit to, 426–27
postwar filmmaking in, 426, 427, 428
It’s in the Air (musical revue), 71–73, 75, 156
Jabs, Waldemar, 162
Jacob, Peter, 340, 416, 417, 418, 420, 432
Jacobi, Lotte, photographs of Leni by, 86–87, 118
Jacobi, Mia, 86
Jäger, Ernst, 280, 313, 413
Jagger, Bianca, 511, 514
Jagger, Mick, 446, 511, 514
and The Blue Angel, 155, 156, 158, 163–64, 166–68, 169, 172
in Pandora’s Box, 57
and Paramount, 209
socializing, 77
and sound films, 162
in Tragedy of Love, 67
and von Sternberg, 152–55, 163–64
Janowitz, Hans, 128
Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile, 19
Jaworsky, Heinz von, 99, 127, 131, 538n8
Jazz Singer, The (film), 161
Jigsaw (film), 399
“Johnny wenn du Geburtstag hast” (song), 191, 212, 482
Johnson, Lyndon B., 489
Joyce, James, 278
Judgment at Nuremberg (film), 469–70, 502, 570n43
Jung, Edgar, 277
Jünger, Ernst, 121–22
Just a Gigolo (film), 500
Kafka, Franz, 19
Karajan, Herbert von, 345
Karlweis, Oskar, 72, 73
Kasten, Jürgen, 128
Kästner, Erich, 75, 385
Kau people of Nuba tribe, 444, 515
Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 471, 489
Kennedy, John F., 256, 471–72
Kennedy, Robert F., 471
Kent, Sidney, 168
Kerr, Deborah, 450
Kettelhut, Erich, 67
Kettner, Horst, 441–42, 444, 514, 516, 521, 522, 524
Kiesewetter, Knut, 572n6
Kindler, Helmut, 423–25
Kirch, Leo, 521
Kisch, Egon Erwin, 86
Kishon, Ephraim, 467
Kismet (film), 362, 370
Kissinger, Henry A., 521
Klamt, Hermann, 80, 81
Klamt, Jutta, 82–84, 533n58
Klarsfeld, Beate, 510
Klausener, Erich, 277
Kleist, Heinrich von, Penthesilea, 328–29
Klimt, Gustav, 69
Klingenberg, Werner, 313
Knef, Hildegard, 408–9, 464, 465, 499, 503
Knight Without Armour (film), 239–40, 246
Koebner, F. W., 27–28
Kohner, Paul, 140, 302–4, 512
Kokoschka, Oskar, 242
Kolbe, Georg, 242
Kollwitz, Käthe, 99
Kolpé, Max, 228, 250, 384, 390, 409, 455, 499, 500, 507
Koppenhöfer, Maria, 328, 330
Korda, Alexander (Sander), 68, 130
Kortner, Fritz, 77–78
Kosleck, Martin, 547n83
Koster, Henry, 402–3
Kracauer, Siegfried, 92
Kramer, Stanley, 469, 570n43
Krauss, Werner, 57
Krenek, Ernst, Jonny, 532
Kretschmer, Elfriede, 572n6
Kreuder, Peter, 191, 291
Kreutzberg, Harald, 222–23
Kunzmann, Theresia, 177
Lacombe, Georges, 386
Ladies’ Home Journal, 570n45
Lady Is Willing, The (film), 360
Laemmle, Carl, 139, 140, 141
Lagerfeld, Karl, 506
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 368
Lamarr, Hedy, 246
Lamprecht, Gerhard, 128
Lancaster, Burt, 469
Lanchester, Elsa, 458
Lang, Fritz, 504
and Dr. Mabuse, 54
and M, 147
and Marlene, 238, 405–7
and Metropolis, 112
and Nibelungs, 162, 263
and Rancho Notorious, 405–7
and Woman in the Moon, 111
Langendorf, Captain, 413
Langhaeuser, Rudolf, 325
Langlois, Henri, 512
Lantin, Rolf, 299
Lantschner, Guzzi and Otto, 280, 321, 327, 556n94
Lasker-Schüler, Else, 158
Last Command, The (film), 154
Lastfogel, Abe, 362
Last Laugh, The (film), 128, 154
La Strada (film), 428
Las Vegas, Marlene’s stage appearances in, 448–49, 451, 452–54, 457, 461
Laughton, Charles, 458, 459
“La Vie en Rose” (song), 400, 487
“Laziest Gal in Town, The” (song), 400, 451
League of Nations, 287, 295
Leap, The (short film), 556n86
“Leben ohne Liebe kannst du nicht” (song), 191
Lebensreformer (back to nature advocates), 18
Le Corbusier, 19
Lehnich, Oswald, 296
Leip, Hans, 561n35
Leisen, Mitchell, 387
Leni, Paul, 67
Leni Riefenstahl Film Inc., 316, 335, 336–37
Lenya, Lotte, 86
Lerman, Leo, 369, 404, 449, 482
Leuwerik, Ruth, 432
Levin, Julius, 48
Lewitan, Joseph, 533n54
Liberman, Alexander, 401–2, 477
Liberman, Tatjana, 402
Liebknecht, Karl, 528n14
Life, 408, 437
“Lili Marleen” (song), 373, 451, 467
Lindbergh, Charles, 208
Lion, Margo, 72, 73, 74–75, 130, 210, 384, 531n36
Little Napoleon, The (film), 67
Locarno Pact, 294
Loesser, Frank, 347
Lollobrigida, Gina, 427
London, Marlene’s stage performances in, 450–52, 461
Loren, Sophia, 462, 521
Los Angeles, see Hollywood
Losch, Eduard von, 30–31, 37–38
Losch, Josefine von, see Dietrich, Josefine
Louis, Jean, 448, 459–60
Louys, Pierre, The Woman and the Puppet, 227
Love (film), 263
Lowlands (film), 330–34
based on opera by d’Albert, 330
cast and crew of, 279, 330, 337–39, 341, 342, 423–24, 517
comparisons with, 333
failure of, 343, 414, 428
filming of, 331–32, 516
lawsuits related to, 423–24
Leni as director of, 330, 333, 341–43
Leni’s acting in, 135, 330, 333, 343
Leni’s changing claims about, 330, 333–34, 413, 573n12
Leni’s continued work on, 411, 414, 421, 426, 427
meaning sought in, 559n44, 573n12
story of, 332–33
L. R. Studio Films, Inc., 126
Lubitsch, Ernst, 45, 105, 154, 209, 231, 243, 398, 504
Luddy, Tom, 512
Ludendorff, Erich, 45
Ludwig, Emil, 244
Luft, Friedrich, 465
Lukács, Georg, 130
Lund, John, 392
Lutze, Viktor, 285, 286
Luz, Oskar, 437
M (film), 147
Madam Doctor (film), 262
Madame Doesn’t Want Children (film), 68, 130, 390
Mademoiselle Docteur (film), 421
Madonna, 505
Magnani, Anna, 396, 432
Magnum Photos, 436
Mahir, Sabri, 85
Mahler, Gustav, 355, 467
Maillol, Aristide, 242
Mainz, Friedrich, 425
Maltese Falcon, The (film), 351
Mamoulian, Rouben, 211, 212, 223
Man by the Roadside (film), 362
Mann, Abby, 570n43
Mann, Erika, 86, 307
Mann, Heinrich:
and The Blue Angel, 155–56, 179
Professor Unrat, 155, 169, 170
Mann, Klaus, 86, 125
Mann, Thomas, 54, 160–61, 233, 254
Mannheim, Karl, 130
Mannheim, Lucie, 158–59
Manon Lescaut (film), 67–68
Manpower (film), 359–60
Manstein, Erich von, 322–23, 325
Manton, Maria, 359
Marais, Jean, 432, 452
Marlene (film), 502–3
Marzahn concentration camp, 338–39, 423, 517
Massary, Fritzi, 455
Matul, Tamara, 204, 241, 532n43
abortions of, 456
death of, 477, 478
health issues of, 256, 409, 476–77
as Maria’s nanny, 75
and Marlene’s money, 396–97, 409
in New York, 353
other lovers of, 353
in Paris, 214, 226, 251
passport of, 226–27, 353
as Sieber’s lover, 75–76, 157, 190–91, 194, 238, 256–57, 353, 409, 410, 455–56
Matz, Peter, 569n22
Maxglan camp, 338, 424, 517
May, Joe, 67
May, Karl, 89
May, Mia, 504
Mayer, Carl, 127–29, 133, 279, 312, 513, 538n11
May-Film, 63, 64
Mazdaznan movement, 83
McLaglen, Victor, 188
Meadows, Earle, 302
Medal of Freedom, 395
“Mein blondes Baby” (“My Blonde Baby”) (song), 467
Menjou, Adolphe, 183, 184
Messner, Reinhold, 521
Messter, Oskar, 76
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 247, 302–4, 362
Metropolis (film), 112
Meyen, Harry, 465
Meyerinck, Hubert von, 63, 72
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 19
Milestone, Lewis, 148, 389
Miller, Lee, 374
Minde-Pouet, Georg, 329
Minetti, Bernhard, 59, 330, 332, 334, 337, 341, 342, 343, 516
Miracle of the Snowshoe: A System for Skiing Correctly, The (film), 94, 103
Mitchell, Margaret, Gone With the Wind, 331
Modern Dubarry, A (film), 531n30
Moissi, Alexander, 34
Mollinger, Dolly, 256
Monroe, Marilyn, 402
Montand, Yves, 462, 465
Monte Carlo Story (film), 456–57
Morocco (film), 179–87
Academy Award nominations for, 208
comparisons with, 190, 197
filming of, 546–47n73
premiere of, 203
story of, 183–87, 350
vocal numbers from, 191
Moroder, Giorgio, 523
Morris, Glenn, 301, 302, 315
Mosheim, Grete, 57, 64, 455
Mountain of Destiny (film), 88–90, 94–95
Müller, André, 573n12
Müller, Hermann, 171
Müller, Ray, 110, 274, 521
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, 127, 519–20
Munkacsi, Martin, 119
Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm, 128, 133–34, 154
Musil, Robert, 45
The Man Without Qualities, 17
Mussolini, Benito, 131, 137, 286, 295, 330, 331, 365
Muthesius, Eckart, 344
Nannen, Henri, 443
Nansen passports, 226–27, 353
National Film Archives, 417
National Geographic, 437
National Socialism (Nazi party):
anti-Semitism of, 259, 296, 314, 336
and the arts, 83, 290
covert continuity of, 521
and cultural revolt (1968), 443
and Day of Freedom, 515
exiles in U.S. from, 233–34
factions within, 276–77
failed 1923 putsch, 286
fanatical pathos of, 288, 296
forced laborers used by, 343–44
Germany ruled by, 258
Horst Wessel Song, 272, 273, 289
ideology of, 447
and Leni, 130, 136, 147, 264–68, 273, 275, 315, 413, 422, 442–43, 518, 523
and Leni’s films, 261, 264, 270–75, 279, 288, 296–97, 299–300, 321, 330, 333, 417, 420–21, 425, 435, 446
nations liberated from, 411
and Night of the Long Knives, 277
and Olympic Games, 296, 301–2, 304, 440
party rallies, 268, 269–72, 275, 277, 278, 279, 282–87, 290, 412, 417, 422, 440
post–World War II, 413–15, 419
public disenchantment with, 276
and Remarque, 248
rise to power, 21, 147–50, 211, 213, 215, 259, 280, 431
and Triumph of the Will, 515
and Victory of Faith, 270–75, 515
Nazi party, see National Socialism
NBC, 464
Negri, Pola, 28, 45
Neurath, Konstantin von, 273
Neutra, Richard, 242, 548n110
Neville-Willing, Donald, 450
New Look, 423
New Objectivity, 278
Newton, Helmut, 523
New Woman, 22–24, 45, 57, 60, 68, 85–86, 115, 446
Nibelungs, The (film), 162, 263
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 18, 99
Night of the Long Knives, 277
Niven, David, 450
No Highway in the Sky (film), 402–3
Normandy, Allied landings in, 340, 367
Nosferatu (film), 133
Nuba people, 436–44, 446–47, 514, 520, 521–22
Nuremberg:
Judgment at Nuremberg (film), 469–70, 502, 570n43
war-crimes trials in, 415–16, 419
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 372–73
Olivier, Laurence, 450
Olympia (film), 290, 294–312
Festival of Beauty (Part II), 310–11
Festival of Nations (Part I), 309–10
filming of, 297–301, 342, 440, 556n94
as fine sports film, 309
honors and awards to, 311
international versions of, 309, 311–12, 313, 315, 321
premiere of, 308–9
reissue of (1960s), 444
at Telluride Film Festival, 512
Olympia Film Inc., 295, 303
Olympiaverlag, publisher, 423
Olympic Games (1932), 296
Olympic Games (1936), 294, 295, 296, 297–302, 313, 440, 444, 520
Olympic Games (1940), 313
Olympic Games (1972), 444
Opel, Margot von, 307, 329
Orla, Ressel, 66
Orlik, Emil, 66
OSS (Office of Strategic Services), 372–73
Owens, Jesse, 302
Pabst, G. W., 69, 106, 108–9, 121, 335
Pacific Film Archive, 512
Palmer, Lilli, 506
Palucca, Gret, 24, 25
Pan Am, Marlene’s ads for, 485
Pandora’s Box (drama), 57, 58, 69
Papen, Franz von, 149, 273, 277
Paramount Pictures, 169, 180–81, 182, 187, 192, 202, 214, 226, 236, 415
Paramount Studios, 204–5, 209, 211, 247, 249, 387
Pasternak, Joe, 168, 257, 347–49
Patcevitch, Iva, 403
Patton, George S., 375, 376
Pavlova, Anna, 84
Pawlinin, Helge, 434
Penthesilea (proposed film), 316, 320, 327–30, 340, 445
“Peter” (song), 191, 482
Peters, Erna, 272
Petersen, Ernst, 96, 111
Peukert, Detlev, 35
Piaf, Edith, 400, 465
Picasso, Pablo, La Gameuse, 242
Pickford, Mary, 111
Pinthus, Kurt, 60
Piscator, Erwin, 113
Pittsburgh (film), 360–61
Piz Palü, see White Hell of Piz Palü, The
Poelzig, Hans, 19, 56
Poland:
German invasion of, 319, 321, 325, 326
Leni’s attempt to film in, 320–25
Marlene’s travel to, 472
Warsaw ghetto uprising, 472
Polgar, Alfred, 424
Pommer, Erich, 157, 162, 179, 259
Pompidou, Georges, 487
Porten, Henny, 39–40
Porter, Cole, 400
Power, Tyrone, 458
Prager, Walter, 152, 275, 280
Prager, Willy, 72
Preminger, Otto, 504
Prévert, Jacques, 383
Prinzhorn, Hans, 19, 529n18
Putti, Lya de, 67
“Quand l’amour meurt” (song), 184
Queen Christine (film), 223
Rabenalt, Arthur Maria, 335
Raether, Arnold, 264, 265–67, 268, 274
Raffé, Rudolf, 536n94
Raft, George, 359
Rancho Notorious (film), 405–7, 564n48
Rasmussen, Knud, 139
Rathenau, Walter, 160
Raubal, Geli, 151
Ravel, Maurice, 461
Reagan, Nancy, 501
Reagan, Ronald, 501
Rebel, The (film), 263, 267
Red Devils, The (film), 432
Reichenau, Walther von, 323, 324
Reich Film Chamber, 296, 299
Reinhardt, Max, 56, 59, 62, 71, 75, 80, 162, 246, 259, 328
Reinl, Harald, 330
Reisch, Walter, 203, 372, 390, 409, 482, 500, 504, 506, 545n48
Reitz, Robert, 48–49
Remarque, Erich Maria “Boni,” 243–57
affair with Marlene, 245–46, 251–56, 353–56, 358, 359, 499
All Quiet on the Western Front, 244
Arch of Triumph “Ravic novel,” 248, 253, 254, 356, 389
art collection of, 256
and Black Fox, 471
citizenship of, 252, 354, 355
death of, 485–86, 498
and end of affair, 243, 251, 353–54, 355, 356, 357
Flotsam, 253
health issues of, 398, 485
and Judgment at Nuremberg, 471
and Leni, 105, 114, 148, 307
messages to and from Marlene, 243, 247–49, 253, 254, 352, 388–89, 398, 452–53
moods and drinking of, 256–57, 356
in New York, 253–54
personal traits of, 244, 248, 251
post–World War II, 398
and preludes to World War II, 249
remarriage to ex-wife, 248, 250
socializing, 257, 307, 353, 397–98, 500
Three Comrades, 247
and World War II, 352–53, 356, 361
Renoir, Jean, 357
Revue, 423–24
Rhineland, German takeover of, 294
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 422
Richard, Frida, 330
Richee, Eugene, 232
Riefenstahl, Alfred Theodor Paul (father), 7–9, 12–16
aspiring to wealth, 12, 23
attempts to control his daughter, 9, 10, 11, 13–14, 15–16, 20–21, 22, 25, 83, 127
business of, 12, 13, 17, 344
death of, 343, 346
and his son, 12–13, 16
and Leni’s career, 29, 80, 308
Riefenstahl, Bertha Ida Scherlach (mother), 7–8
aspiring to wealth, 12, 13, 23
and the cinema, 14
and her husband’s strictness, 10
and Leni’s artistic ambitions, 14, 80
and Leni’s career, 308
and Leni’s early years, 10, 13
post–World War II, 411, 419–20
Riefenstahl, Heinz (brother):
artistic interests of, 12
childhood of, 9
death of, 346
father’s plans for, 12–13, 16
and his father’s business, 344–46
and Leni’s ambition, 89
and Leni’s work, 295, 306, 308, 557n7
and Nazi party, 344–45
and Olympia Film Inc., 295
Riefenstahl, Helene Amalia Bertha, see Riefenstahl, Leni
Riefenstahl, Inge (Heinz’s wife), 306
Riefenstahl, Leni, 10–29, 79–152, 319–46, 431–47, 511–24
and Africa, 433–35, 436–47, 515
and aging, 442, 444, 446, 514, 516, 519, 520–24
ambition of, 11, 16, 21, 27–29, 82, 84–85, 87, 89, 105–6, 110, 125, 127, 128, 129, 147, 149, 261–62, 269, 275, 278, 287, 296, 513–14, 519–20
arrests and escapes of, 412
art, beauty, and strength as core of, 83, 105, 517
artistic rise of, 81–83, 128, 136
as artist with nothing to learn, 25, 82
assets confiscated, 419, 421–23, 435
attention sought by, 11, 142–43, 419, 423, 432
Behind the Scenes of the Reich Party Rally Film, 280
birth and family background of, 7–8, 265
boxing lessons taken by, 85
car accident of, 433–34, 436
career advancement of, 80, 124–27, 136, 147, 261, 264, 287, 291, 314, 320, 427, 514, 518
childhood of, 8–9, 122
as “child of nature,” 9, 10, 95, 96, 123
as cinema fan, 14, 112
comeback of, 446–47
competition avoided by, 26, 119
Coral Gardens, 518, 520
as dancer, 14–16, 18–19, 20–21, 22, 25, 27, 29, 79–81, 84, 92, 93, 96–97, 104, 105, 117, 124, 145, 440, 523
“Dances of Eros” performed by, 29
dealings with men, 11, 27–28, 29, 80, 84, 87, 90–92, 99–102, 105, 110–11, 113–14, 123, 125–27, 131, 140, 142, 147, 148–49, 151, 261, 293, 301, 330, 340, 341–42, 442
death of, 524
and deep-sea diving, 515, 516, 518–19, 520, 524
denazification hearings of, 420–22, 425
deported from Austria, 419
disregarding her father’s wishes, 9, 10, 11, 13–14, 15–16, 20–21, 22, 25, 127
divorce of, 420, 432
“Dream Blossom” choreographed by, 96
fading influence of, 313, 314, 326, 330, 340, 436
and fame, 293, 313, 314, 444, 511, 518, 520
as film actress, 15, 95, 97, 99, 103–5, 108, 111, 116–17, 124, 125, 135, 136, 137, 273, 312, 330, 333, 343, 426, 428; see also Riefenstahl, Leni, films acted in
film apprenticeship of, 123, 126; see also Riefenstahl, Leni, films directed by
financing sought by, 27–29, 81, 259, 423, 425, 426, 432, 436, 535n81
first sexual experience, 28
flights from reality, 114, 342–43, 411, 436, 438, 440–41, 513–15
and Goebbels, 150–51,
260–64, 274, 295, 300, 305–6
health problems of, 335–36, 339–40, 343, 420, 516–17, 522, 524
in helicopter accident, 522
history rewritten by, 80, 90, 128, 136–37, 261, 263–64, 274, 280, 312, 326, 330, 412, 413, 417–19, 421–23, 507, 513–15, 517–18, 521
and Hitler, 144–47, 149–52, 258–65, 267–69, 273–75, 277–79, 283–84, 289–91, 292–93, 305–9, 331, 337, 412, 417–18, 421, 423, 424, 440, 515, 517–18, 520
honors and awards to, 137, 289–90, 295–96, 311, 417
houses built by, 306–7, 515–16
income of, 95, 105, 124, 292, 295, 336–37, 413, 421, 423, 439
international travel of, 293–94, 307, 313–15
interrogations of, 413–16, 418
judicial inquiry initiated against, 523
knee injury of, 84, 87, 88, 89, 93
The Last of the Nuba, 444, 514, 520
lawsuits initiated by, 423–25, 517
and Marlene, 112–14
marriage of, 340
memoirs of, 25, 114, 128, 326, 426, 507, 516–17, 519, 552n39
and modeling, 86–87
and mountain films, 88–101, 102–11, 115–23, 129, 261, 267, 269, 273, 278, 287, 292, 413, 433, 434, 440, 442
Müller’s film about: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, 127, 519–20
and Mussolini, 295
and Nazi party, 130, 136, 263, 264–68, 273, 275, 280, 290, 293, 315, 330, 333, 413, 420–22, 425, 435, 518, 523
in New York, 514
and Nuba people, 436–44, 446–47, 514, 519, 520, 521–22
outsider status of, 25, 440
peasants and Gypsies used for filming by, 337–39, 423–25, 434, 439, 517, 519, 523
People of Kau, 445, 515
photographs by, 438–47, 511, 515, 516, 518–19, 520
physical appearance of, 86, 120, 446, 514
piano lessons of, 13
and politics, 143–44, 147, 148, 259, 308, 313, 314–15, 413–14, 426
post–World War II, 411–28, 431
production company of, 126
professional contacts of, 85, 297, 299–300, 321, 421, 427, 441–42
public image of, 292, 293, 313, 520–21
reputation of, 136
on the run, 411
Schulberg’s visit to, 416–19
self-confidence of, 29, 91, 95, 99
self-image of, 102–3, 105, 329–30, 333, 412, 413, 414, 419–20, 522, 523
self-promotion of, 82, 89, 91, 106, 114, 118, 127, 131, 144, 145–48, 151, 292, 314
Special Film Unit of, 321–23
speech lessons for, 117–18
sports played by, 9, 10, 16, 22
Struggle in Snow and Ice, 110, 127, 138, 513
studio lot built for, 315–16
success achieved by, 258–59, 274, 289–90, 302, 309, 311–12, 321, 327
teen years of, 10–23
at Telluride Film Festival, 512–13, 514
training her body, 9, 85, 93, 103, 316
triumph over her father, 29, 83
as typist in her father’s office, 15–16, 83
and war, 316, 319–27, 330–31, 334–35, 346
Wonders under Water, 518
work ethic of, 292–93, 299–301, 305
working through her pain, 14, 82, 84, 104, 108–10, 433–34, 518–19
Riefenstahl, Leni, films acted in:
Avalanche, 115–20, 127, 162, 435
The Great Leap, 103–4, 106, 127
The Holy Mountain, 93–99, 100–103, 145, 535n83
Piz Palü, 107–11, 116, 120, 139, 263
S.O.S. Iceberg, 138–43, 145, 273
White Frenzy, 119, 124–25, 127, 131, 140
Riefenstahl, Leni, films directed by:
archive of, 435–36, 515–16
Black Cargo, 434–35
The Blue Light, see Blue Light, The
critical reviews of, 137, 138
Day of Freedom—Our Wehrmacht—Nuremberg 1935, 290, 291–92, 323, 415, 416–17, 515
dreams as sources for, 129, 136, 268, 333, 418, 427
Lowlands, see Lowlands
military precision in planning of, 269–70, 280–83, 297–98, 300–301, 305, 306
money squandered on, 332, 335
Olympia, 290, 294–312, 315, 321, 342, 440, 512
and postwar hearings, 420–22
postwar projects, 432–33
remakes of, 436
technical innovations in, 134–35, 287, 311, 555n80
Triumph of the Will, see Triumph of the Will
Victory of Faith, 152, 264, 270–75, 276, 415, 416–17, 515
Riefenstahl film Inc., 316, 335, 336–39
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 19, 57, 243, 385
Riml, Walter, 127, 131, 137, 142, 280
Rist, Sepp, 115, 121, 142, 279
Rittau, Günter, 112, 162
Riva, John Michael, 401
Riva, Maria Elisabeth:
as actress, 219, 459
birth of, 63
childhood of, 66–67, 75, 76, 77, 238
children of, 395–96, 398, 399, 401, 457, 462, 476
citizenship of, 65
and her father, 202, 214, 366, 382, 493
and her mother, 66, 190–91, 192, 193–94, 381–82, 403, 461, 462, 466, 478, 486, 488, 510
as “Maria Manton,” 359
Marlene in U.S., 171
Marlene’s attachment to, 196, 382, 505
on Marlene’s life, 49, 77, 167
and Marlene’s memoirs, 498–99
and Marlene’s work, 199–200, 217, 230, 239, 366, 462
marriage to Goodman, 359, 382
marriage to Riva, 390
as teenager, 257
travel to Europe, 213, 215
Riva, Paul, 457
Riva, Peter, 395–96, 397, 398, 401, 510, 572n22
Riva, William, 390
Robison, Arthur, 67
Rodger, George, 436–37, 438, 566–67n10
Le Village des Noubas, 437
Rodin, Auguste, 242
Röhm, Ernst, 271, 273, 276–77, 285
Roman, Martin, 542n71
Rome:
Allied conquest of, 367
Leni’s visit to, 426–27
Rommel, Erwin, 327
Room Upstairs, The (Martin Roumagnac) (film), 386–87
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 204, 235–36, 350
Rops, Félicien, 165
Rossellini, Roberto, 396, 426, 427
Rossino, Alexander B., 325
Roth, Joseph, 11, 61–62, 76, 128, 469
Rundstedt, Gerd von, 323
Ruttmann, Walter, 105, 278–80, 553n45, 553n46
Sagan, Françoise, 452
Sagan, Leontine, 137
Saint Laurent, Yves, 462, 503
Salonom, Erich, 288
Salvador, Henri, 400
Salvation Hunters (film), 196
Sanders-Brahms, Helma, 559n44, 573n12
Sarris, Andrew, 221
Scarlet Empress, The (film), 216–17, 218–21, 223, 228, 238, 240
Schaub, Julius, 341, 411
Schaub, Wilma, 411–12
Scheib, Hans, 297
Schell, Maximilian, 158, 469, 502–3, 570n43
Schiaparelli, Elsa, 374
Schiele, Egon, 242
Schiffer, Claudia, 521
Schiffer, Marcellus, 71–73, 210
Schirach, Baldur von, 285–86
Schlageter, Albert Leo, 279
Schleicher, Kurt von, 277
Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl, 242
Schnauber, Cornelius, 564n48
Schneeberger, Gisela, 280
Schneeberger, Hans:
and The Blue Angel, 112, 162
and The Blue Light, 127, 137, 556n97
The Exploding Mountain by, 121
Leni’s relationship with, 101, 103–5, 109, 110, 111–12, 113, 124, 127, 420
and Lowlands, 279
and mountain films, 91, 101, 103–5, 109, 115, 127, 137, 162
and professional contacts, 112, 114, 121
as trustee of Leni’s possessions, 565n12
war experiences of, 121
Schneider, Hannes, 103, 119, 121
Schneider, Romy, 432, 462, 473, 503, 506
Schönberg, Arnold, 233, 533n49
Schubert, Franz, 80
Schulberg, B. P., 205, 415
Schulberg, Budd, 415–19
Schultze, Norbert, 561n35
Schwarzenbach, Annemarie, 307
Seidman, Ginette and Paul-Émile, 475
Selznick, Irene, 459
Senso (film), 428
Seven Sinners (film), 349–50
Shanghai Express (film), 197–200, 213, 240, 351
Shaw, George Bernard, Misalliance, 246
Shirer, William, 285
Sieber, Anton, 64
Sieber, Ernst, 507
Sieber, Rudolf Emilian “Rudi”:
aging, 469, 492–93
birth certificate of, 63
chicken farm of, 410, 455, 475, 478, 479, 480, 485
citizenship of, 226
death of, 497–98, 499
diaries of, 455, 456, 506
family background of, 64
film connections of, 64, 67
film work of, 68, 69, 71, 194, 202, 214, 226, 353
as grandfather, 396, 401, 476
health problems of, 455–56, 475, 493
and Maria (daughter), 202, 214, 366, 382, 493
Marlene in U.S., 171, 201, 208, 211, 212
and Marlene’s assets in Germany, 208, 209, 225
and Marlene’s lovers, 202, 209, 211, 222, 251, 252, 253, 353, 357, 365, 371, 389, 404, 455, 475, 480
marriage to Marlene, 63–67, 157, 193, 257, 379
messages to and from Marlene, 192, 201, 202–4, 209–10, 211–13, 221–22, 225–27, 253, 359, 360, 380, 382, 388, 395, 471
money from Marlene, 76, 202–3, 209, 215, 222, 371, 409–10, 455–56, 477, 492–93
in Paris, 194, 202, 209, 211, 213–14, 221, 226, 238, 251, 395
separate life of, 67, 75, 157, 194, 410, 488
Tamara as lover of, 75–76, 157, 190–91, 194, 227, 238, 256–57, 353, 409, 410, 455–56
U.S., family visits of, 201–2, 208, 238, 241, 353, 409
Signoret, Simone, 506
Silk Stockings (musical), 408
Simmel, Johannes Mario, 244
Sinatra, Frank, 367, 501
skiing, Arlberg technique,
103
Skoronel, Vera, 25
Slezak, Walter, 261
Sokal, Harry, 28–29
affair with Leni, 29, 101–2, 125–26
departure from Germany, 259
as film producer, 91, 101, 106, 119, 125, 126, 127, 426, 513, 556n97
financial support to Leni from, 28, 29, 82, 90–91, 312
gifts from, 90
war experience of, 121
wealth of, 81
Sol y Sombra (film), 432
Song of Songs (film), 212, 214, 223, 224
Sontag, Susan, “Fascinating Fascism,” 446–47, 514, 520
Sorge, Ernst, 142, 149
Sorkin, Marc, 108
S.O.S. Iceberg (film), 138–43, 145, 152, 273
Soupault, Philippe, 278
Southern California, American dream in, 234–35
Soviet Union:
German invasion of, 336
Marlene’s stage performances in, 472–73, 479
Spanish Civil War, 331
Sparkuhl, Theodor, 67
and International Pavilion, Paris (1937), 307
and Leni, 267–68, 343
and Leni’s family, 344, 345, 411
and Leni’s films, 267–68, 315, 412
memoirs of, 267–68, 334
and party congresses, 267, 282–83
Spender, Stephen, 191, 452
Spiro, Eugen, 119–20
Spitz, René, 130
Spoilers, The (film), 360
Spoliansky, Mischa, 62, 71, 156, 191, 506
Springer, Axel, 506
Stage Fright (film), 400–401, 402
Stauffenberg, Claus Schenck Graf von, 343
Steel Animal, The (film), 290, 291, 342, 435, 554n67, 559n41
Stern, 442–43, 445
Sternberg, Josef von “Jo,” 152–59
affair with Marlene, 167–68, 172, 182, 190, 192–93, 197, 208, 210, 215–18, 227, 229–30, 241, 355, 460
art collection of, 241–42
in Berlin, 211
and Blonde Venus, 204–6, 210
and Blue Angel, 112–13, 157–59, 162–73
death of, 481, 498
and The Devil Is a Woman, 227–28
as director, 216, 217, 218, 349
and Dishonored, 188–90
early years of, 195–96
and end of the affair, 221, 229–30, 233, 237, 238, 242–43, 256, 479–80
fading influence of, 229
and financial matters, 203
and Jannings, 152–55, 163–64
and Leni, 113–14, 413
Marlene created by, 159, 165, 167, 172, 196–97, 216–18, 227, 229–30, 395, 476, 506
Marlene discovered by, 503–4, 541n62
and Marlene’s film roles, 164, 166–69, 179–87, 197–200, 212, 215, 217, 227, 230, 231–32, 350, 406, 503
memoirs of, 481
messages to and from Marlene, 210, 211, 215–16, 218, 242–43, 405
and Morocco, 179–87, 197
move to Hollywood, 168–69, 179, 233
name change of, 196
and The Scarlet Empress, 216–17, 218–21, 228
and Shanghai Express, 197–200
and Sieber, 202, 209, 211, 222, 455, 480
socializing with, 238, 256, 257, 356, 405, 466, 468, 480–81
travels of, 242–43
and war, 257
Sternberg, Riza von, 167, 182, 192, 200–201, 202
Stern Film, Inc., 434
Stewart, James, 347, 348, 354, 402
Stolze, SS-Hauptsturmbannführer, 321, 424
Storr, Hermann, 321
Strachan, Robin, 566n9
Strasser, Gregor, 277
Stravinsky, Igor, 355
Streicher, Julius, 275
Strength and Momentum (short film), 556n86
Stresemann, Gustav, 160
Sudan, civil war in, 522
Sudermann, Hermann, Song of Songs, 211
Sudetenland, Hitler’s threats against, 313
Sullavan, Margaret, 248
Swanson, Gloria, 512
Sym, Igo, 70
“Taking a Chance on Love” (song), 364
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare), 57
Tauber, Richard, 76, 77, 399, 467
Taylor, Elizabeth, 401, 402
Taylor, Maxwel D., 563n26
Technicolor, 238
Tel Aviv, Marlene’s stage appearances in, 466–67
Telluride Film Festival, 512–13, 514
Temporary Nationality Act (1945), 565n6
Thale boarding school, 15
Théatre de L’Étoile, Paris, 462
Thielscher, Guido, 61
Thielscher Girls, 61–62
Thomas, Danny, 362, 363, 366
Threepenny Opera, The (film), 86
Three Stars on the Cloak of the Madonna (film), 432
Time, 521
Time of Silence and Darkness (film), 517
Tobis Cinema, 240, 334, 425
Toller, Ernst, 75
Torberg, Friedrich, 455, 475, 485
Touch of Evil (film), 457–58
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 165
Towns, Forrest, 302
Tracy, Spencer, 469, 470
Tragedy of Love (film), 64, 67, 164
Traut, Walter, 316, 321, 434, 435
Trenker, Luis, 423
death of, 519
and Great Leap, 103
and Holy Mountain, 91, 95, 96
and Leni, 89–92, 95, 100–101, 102, 103, 105
marriage of, 105
and Mountain of Destiny, 89–90, 94–95
and The Rebel, 263, 267
Struggle in the Mountains by, 120–21
Trezona, Charlie, 371–72, 396–97
Triumph of the Will (film), 92, 275–91
Behind the Scenes of the Reich Party Rally Film, 280
cast and crew for, 278–82
filming of, 279–80, 284, 290, 305
and Hitler, 277–79, 283–90
honors and awards for, 289–90, 295–96, 307
impact of, 288, 447
Leni as director of, 277–85, 287, 288–90
Leni’s changing claims about, 287, 417, 515
and party rallies, 275–76, 278–80, 282–87
postwar distribution of, 435
premiere of, 288–89
preparations for, 280–81, 283
and war-crimes trials, 415–16
Trümpy, Berthe, 25
Tucholsky, Kurt, 67
Gripsholm Castle, 147
Twardowski, Hans Heinrich von, 547n83
Two Neckties (revue), 156, 157
Tynan, Kenneth, 451–52, 471, 473, 481–82, 491, 499, 507
Ucicky, Gustav, 69, 70
Udet, Ernst:
and Avalanche, 115, 117
and Fanck, 140, 142
and Leni, 111–12, 326–27
and Marlene’s Aunt Jolly (Felsing), 117, 237
and Piz Palü, 106
and S.O.S. Iceberg, 142, 143
and World War I, 121, 151
Ufa Film Company, 112
and The Blue Angel, 153, 154, 155
and The Great Leap, 106
and The Holy Mountain, 95
and Manon Lescaut, 67–68
ownership of, 65
and postwar films, 426
and sound film, 154, 161–62
and Triumph of the Will, 277–78
Uhlans (cavalry regiment), 4
Ultraphon studio, 191
United States:
Anti-Nazi League in, 314
censorship in, 362
economy of, 204, 232, 235
entry into World War II, 336, 350, 360
propaganda films, 360–61
radio in, 569n20
Universal Pictures, 138–40, 145, 148, 168, 353
USO (United Service Organizations), 362–67, 370–71, 373–76
Vajda, Ladislav, 106, 130
Valentino, Rudolph, 183
Valetti, Rosa, 75, 157
van Gogh, Vincent, 242
Vanity Fair, 523
Veidt, Conrad, 75, 76, 77
Venice Biennale, 137
Victory of Faith (film), 152, 264, 270–75, 276, 415, 416–17, 515
Viertel, Berthold, 130
Viertel, Peter, 425
Viertel, Salka, 233, 425
Vigny, Benno, Amy Jolly, 180
Visconti, Luchino, 426, 427, 428, 545n32
Vollmoeller, Karl, 27–28, 80, 155
von der Hyde, Horst Alexander, 240
von Losch family, 31, 38, 41, 42
Von Mund zu Mund (“From Mouth to Mouth”) (musical production), 62
Wachsmann, Franz, 233, 542n71
Wagner, Josef, 572n21
Wagner, Winifred, 150
Waldoff, Claire, 62, 77
Wallace, Peggy Ann, 513
Wallburg, Otto, 72
Wallenberg, Captain, 413
Wandervogel movement, 17
Wanger, Walter, 181, 545n41
Warhol, Andy, 511
Wäscher, Aribert, 330
Wassman, Hans, 62
Wayne, John, 349
Way of All Flesh, The (film), 154
Wedekind, Frank, Pandora’s Box, 58
Weigel, Helene, 472
Weihmayr, Franz, 267, 268, 280
Weill, Kurt, 532n38
Weimar Republic, 20, 22, 57, 61, 69, 79, 83, 147, 161, 171, 258, 475
Weintraub Syncopators, 163
Weissmuller, Johnny, 315
Welles, Orson, 457, 487, 506
Welsh, Mary, see Hemingway, Mary Welsh,
Werfel, Franz, 355
West, Mae, 247
Westfront (film), 121
West Wall (film), 330
White Frenzy, The (film), 119, 124–25, 127, 131, 140
White Hell of Piz Palü, The (film), 106–11, 113, 116, 120, 130, 139, 263
White Water (short film), 556n86
Widmark, Richard, 469
Wieman, Mathias, 115, 127, 335
Wiesinger, Paula, 537n120
Wigman, Mary, 19, 23–26, 80, 529n18
Wilder, Billy, 390–95, 398, 409, 454–55, 498, 504, 510
Wilding, Michael, 401, 506
Wilhelm I, Kaiser, 33
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 12, 22, 33, 36, 42, 45
Will, Elisabeth, 399, 468–69
death of, 488
see also Dietrich, Elisabeth Ottilie
Williams, Tennessee, 452
Windsor, Duchess of, 506
Windt, Herbert, 306, 328
Winterstein, Eduard von, 162–63
With the Berlin SA to Nuremberg (film), 262
Witness for the Prosecution (film), 458–60
Wolfe, Thomas, You Can’t Go Home Again, 301–2
Woman in the Moon (film), 111
Woman One Longs For, The (film), 77–78, 297
Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, The (film), 127, 519–20
World War I:
“aristocracy of the trenches,” 286
in Berlin, 11, 22, 34–38, 41–43
combat pilots, 283–84
high spirits in, 34–35
and Marlene, 30, 34–38, 41–43, 48
and postwar period, 22–24, 45–46, 53–54, 59–60, 76–77, 86–87, 122
social changes in, 45
U.S. entry into, 235
veterans in film industry, 120–22
World War II, 319–27
Allied victories in, 340–41, 367, 370, 419
Battle of the Bulge, 375
in Berlin, 339, 353
censorship in, 362
and Hitler, 257, 313, 315, 319–23, 326–27, 331, 334, 335, 336, 367
and Marlene, 351–52, 361, 362–76, 382–83, 474
onset of, 257
Pearl Harbor bombing, 336, 350
postwar period, 380–81
prelude to, 249–51, 252, 256, 257
U.S. entry into, 336, 350,
360
U.S. radio broadcasts in, 372–73
war films in, 291, 320–25
Wüst, Ida, 72
Wyman, Jane, 400
“You Do Something to Me” (song), 364
“You Go to My Head” (song), 364
Youth Movement, 17–18
Zambona, Jutta, 248, 250, 354, 560n6
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 62
Zielke, Ilse, 342
Zielke, Willy, 290, 291, 341–42, 435, 559n40, 559n41
Zille, Heinrich, 99
Zuckmayer, Carl, 75, 106, 155–56, 289, 354
Zukor, Adolph, 236
Zweig, Stefan, The World of Yesterday, 54–55