It was 2:40 a.m., and I was alone. Dan had flown off again – this time to Tucson and Albuquerque – on a zip-trip for some clinical trials his company was running on an Alzheimer's drug in which Dan ...

Marlene Dietrich blurred all boundaries and checked all of the boxes. In Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) she appeared onstage in a top hat and tails; during a performance she asks a woman for the ...

What am I to do? I cahn’t help it. Love’s always been my game, Play it how I may. I was made that way. I cahn’t help it. — “Falling in Love Again” by Frederick Hollander, Sammy Lerner Marlene Dietrich ...

Marlene Dietrich in Dishonored, by Eugene Robert Richee, 1930 Eugene Robert Richee, Deutsche Kinemathek, Marlene Dietrich Collection, Berlin Marlene Dietrich with Parachutists by George Horton, March ...

The 20th century gave rise to one of the most enduring symbols of admiration and derision: The celebrity. Our technology may have advanced, but the desire for images and proximity to celebrities has ...

Whenever anyone ever asks me, “Where were you born?” my answer is, “Hollywood!” The follow-up question usually is, “Did you know any stars?” “YES,” I always say. “In fact, I was in a movie myself — ...