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Title: Absolutely essential reading for fans of Garbo/Dietrich lore
Review: I have been through many of the sources used for this book, and I really appreciated the way the author ties so many loose ends together, and fills in so very many gaps in the various sagas. Plus the considerable socio/political backround info through the decades. Its interesting to see just how much politics played a heavy role in these lives, one way or another; an aspect I had not considered. For example, Garbo's career being torpedoed in the end mainly by her total reliance on Schlee and Salka Viertel, who was essentially blacklisted beginning in the mid-1940s -- something you definitely won't pick up from Salka's bio!The character who comes through as paradoxically the most warm and human is Tallulah Bankhead, and who would have thought it? This could possibly happen only in comparison with the rest of these particular subjects.Its an absorbing, in-depth review of eras, attitudes, and lifestyles now totally "gone with the wind".
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