Some interesting Dietrich-related auctions are currently on ebay.
One seller has many old wirephotos, including the the photo above, taken at the Blue Angel nightclub in 1961.
If you're feeling flush, there are two letters (with optimistic price tags) written to Charles Graves:
the first, written in the mid 1950s on Dorchester stationary is a defense of Kenneth Tynan:
“Dear Charles, Isn’t it too sad that almost every time I come here
something happens that makes things uncomfortable between you and me....The idea of quoting London reviews came because of the rare event that critics wrote
about a cabaret act at all - and that the reviews contained so many unusual
comments....Do you think your last remark would smear him in my eyes? He is an
interesting and intelligent critic. That’s all I know and all I care to
know.”
In
1959 she writes about stories for a possible TV series,
“Dearest,...First I cannot use stories with a central character of the
Maigret type. The hero must not be Mr. Fix-It. The hero must be in trouble and
the suspense of the story must be: Is he going to get out of it or not. Instead
of: We know he is going to get out of it but how. We are snowed under here with
Perry Mason - type of series....Second, I have a radio show called: M.D. Talks
on Love and Life. It is a lovelorn kind of program but I also do songs they ask
for and talk about my war experiences, read poems...”
The seller also has a copy of the
1962 edition of
Marlene Dietrich's ABC, (signed by Marlene in the 80s); another seller has a copy of the limited edition signed
reprint.
An interesting portrait from the mid-40s.
A programme for Marlene's appearance at Expo 67.
