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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.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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.
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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.
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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.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
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.
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p; 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.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
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.
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