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by Wieland, Karin


  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

  and sound films, 162

  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

  Fried
rich, 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

  beaten-down men in, 22

  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

  Goebbels, Joseph:

  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

  Hemingway, Ernest, 473

  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<
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  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

  Jannings, Emil:

  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

 

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