Blue Angel (56 page)

176
-not only contributed: Bette Davis,
The Lonely Life
(New York: Putnam, 1962), p. 261.

177
-but she also: Cheryl Crawford to DS, Aug. 18, 1983; see also her book
One Naked Individual
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), pp. 117–24.

180
-I cannot play: Crawford, p. 124.

181
-Maria was the: Dean Goodman to DS, May 27, 1989.

183
-Do you have: Juliet Benita Colman,
Ronald Colman
(New York: Morrow, 1975), p. 214.

184
-I don’t want: Selma Robinson,
art. cit
.

C
HAPTER
T
WELVE

187
-He taught me: John Fisher,
Call Them Irreplaceable
(New York: Stein and Day, 1974), p. 143.

190
-Wherever I went: Arthur Pollock, “Theater Time,” syndicated column (e.g.,
New York Journal-American
), June 1, 1944.

190
-attached themselves: Danny Thomas, with Bill Davidson,
Make Room for Danny
(New York: Putnam, 1991), p. 138.

190
-I was more afraid:
Marlene
, p. 206.

190
-It was my first: “Marlene Sees Night Air Fight,” United Press International wire dispatch dated Algiers, April 12, 1944.

191
-I went in: Thomas, p. 139.

193
-Being made prisoner: Jean-Pierre Aumont,
Le Soleil et les Ombres
(Paris: Laffont, 1976), p. 125; trans. DS. See also Aumont’s
Souvenirs Provisoires
(Paris: René Julliard, 1957), p. 229.

194
-If they don’t: Louis Berg, “Dietrich Rides Again,”
This Week
, Aug. 13, 1944, p. 10.

194
-Anyone who has:
New York Post
, July 2, 1944.

194
-It gave me: Willi Frischauer, “The Marlene Dietrich Story,”
Reynolds News
(London), June 13, 1954; see also “Dietrich, the body and the soul,”
Collier’s
, May 14, 1954, p. 27.

194
-The Germany I knew: Mel Heimer, “Dietrich ‘Home’ Again,”
New York Journal-American
, Aug. 26, 1944, p. 2.

195
-Only the door: Col. Barney Oldfield, USAF (Ret.) to DS, May 29, 1989.

196
-Dietrich was a:
Ibid
.

197
–98-the Paris command: Baker, p. 444.

198
-But Marlene: Renoir, p. 226.

199
-but I would:
Marlene
, p. 201.

199
-But, darling: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.

201
-I am through: Frank Conniff, “Marlene Dietrich Quits as Film Actress,” syndicated for International News Service (e.g., New York
Journal-American)
, Feb. 2, 1945.

203
-Patton seemed to: James M. Gavin,
On to Berlin
(New York: Viking, 1978), p. 244.

C
HAPTER
T
HIRTEEN

206
-Her feet: Barbara Learning,
Orson Welles
(New York: Viking, 1985), p. 309.

206
-She is the: Sidney Skolsky, “Tintypes,”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, Aug. 30, 1945.

207
-Marlene had stipulated: Marcel Carné,
La Vie à belles dents
(Paris: Jean-Vuarnet, 1979), p. 257 (trans. DS).

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.

C
HAPTER
F
OURTEEN

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.

C
HAPTER
F
IFTEEN

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.

C
HAPTER
S
IXTEEN

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.