Jean Jacques Naudet Knihy

Marlene Dietrich never threw anything away, from her good-luck black rag doll to the letters she received from her lovers. She kept every article of clothing made for her by the great French couturiers and Hollywood costume designers. After Dietrich's death, the articles were gathered together: 25,000 objects and 18,000 images. The major pieces of Dietrich's vast collection were assembled in an archive and given to the Film Museum Berlin, and are now on permanent exhibition there.

Marilyn ... the word instantly evokes glamour, charm, voluptuous beauty, but also an alluring childlike vulnerability. It's precisely this multi-faceted and complex appeal that created her incredible popularity and ensures her continuing fame. Each of the various photographers she worked with cultivated a different side of Marilyn's beauty and personality. Here are the firsthand accounts by (as well as the photographs of) some of Marilyn's most trusted photographers telling what it was like to photograph this Henri Cartier-Bresson; Andre de Dienes; Cecil Beaton; Richard Avedon and Milton Greene.