This is one title in a series of short, illustrated biographies, telling the stories of those who have shaped our present and our past. They range from Beethoven to Dietrich and from Einstein to Churchill. Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) lived and loved with unconventional passion, enthralling men and women alike. In life, on stage and on film she played many roles, from the promiscuous temptress to the loving mother and innocent girl. A cosmopolitan star, she was also highly political, using her glamorous image as a weapon in the fight against Nazism. Her public legend became so important to her that she spent her last decade in total seclusion, rather than allow her audiences to witness her decline. It makes no difference how she breaks your heart , wrote Ernest Hemingway of her, if she is there to mend it .

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