When we meet them in the early 1960s, both have just returned to their homelands - Marlene Dietrich (Jayne Lewis) to Germany, and Edith Piaf (Louise Pitre) to France - to perform concerts. It's
The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as " the '40s " or " the Forties ") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.
Marlene Dietrich, Lili Marleen - najsłynniejsza niemiecka piosenka z okresu II wojny światowej. Autorem muzyki (1938) jest Norbert Schultze. Piosenka w wersj
Cooper, James Stewart, Brian Aherne, John Gilbert, Edith Piaf, and Jean Gabin—colored her as even more glamorous and fueled gossip columns. In 1952 Ernest Hemingway described her magnetism, saying, “If she had nothing more than her voice, she could break your heart with it.” Dietrich was granted American citizenship in 1939.
Piaf married Jacques Pills in 1952 (her matron of honour was Marlene Dietrich) and divorced him in 1956. In 1962, she wed Théo Sarapo (Theophanis Lamboukas), a Greek hairdresser-turned-singer and actor who was 20 years her junior. The couple sang together in some of her last engagements. Notes & References:
In the 1940s and 1950s, there was Piguet's Bandit from 1944-fragrance associated with Edith Piaf but, oh my, it screams Marlene. It's so feminine on one hand, but harsh and full of masculine tobacco on the other.
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