Marlene Dietrich loved Edith Piaf for years. For years Edith Piaf did not return her love. Perhaps she took advantage of it.
Marlene did everything for her. Everything a deity can do for another deity, if in love. From accompanying her to concerts around the world, to consoling her in tragedy, even leading her to her infinite secret lovers, those who received that love that Marlene did not have.
Only one thing stopped Marlene's love. She tells it in her 1984 autobiography:
"When she started taking drugs, I stopped being faithful to her. It was more than I could bear. [...] I was desperate. Drugs were not as dangerous as those of today - there was no heroin or other equally harmful substances - but they were still drugs and I gave up helping her. My love for her persisted but had become useless. [...] I abandoned Edith Piaf like a lost child, who will always be missed, who I will always carry deep in my heart."
As she herself writes, the love that Marlene had for Edith never disappeared. And how could it? It was the same that led her to be photographed kneeling at her feet to fix her shoe on her wedding day.
She, diva of all divas, who at her feet, would have had the world forever. But love does this, it makes all the gods men.
Source: Francesco Dell'Acqua
📷Nick de Morgoli.Paris.1952,
No comments:
Post a Comment