PG
chose to base her play on Mann
's novel of 1905 instead of the well-known 1930 film by Josef von Sternberg
, which starred Marlene Dietrich
.
Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 157-73.
166
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
163
The play, set in Weimar...
Performance of text
Pam Gems
PG
's play with music entitled Marlene, successor to her Blue Angel, opened at the OldhamColiseum Theatre
, with Siân Phillips
starring as Marlene Dietrich
.
Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 157-73.
166, 172
Gems, Pam. Marlene. Oberon Books, 1996.
12, 14
Textual Features
Pam Gems
PG
, an avid movie-goer in her youth, had long admired Dietrich
, whom she saw as a modern icon. A made woman. A stayer. Tough, hard to please, alluring, comforting . . . and...
Timeline
6 May 1992: Marlene Dietrich died at the age of ninety;...
Building item
6 May 1992
Marlene Dietrich
died at the age of ninety; her career in cabaret and films had spanned 1930s Berlin and postwar Hollywood.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.