Volume 40, Number 7 · April 8, 1993
Electra from Beverly Hills
By Gabriele Annan
Marlene Dietrich
by Maria Riva
Knopf, 790 pp., $27.50
Marlene Dietrich died last year aged ninety-one. She spent the last decade of her life holed up in bed in the Avenue Montaigne. During that time her daughter Maria Riva let it be known that as soon as her mother was dead she would publish her biography. This is it.
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