Presents the World Première of Puma By Julie Gilbert and Frank Evans |
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What happens when two heavenly bodies collide? That is exactly what we encounter in Puma, a play that explores the life-long, obsessive and tempestuous love affair between Marlene Dietrich, the German actress who became a Hollywood icon, and Erich Maria Remarque, the celebrated author of All’s Quiet On The Western Front. As the inevitable conflagration of World War II loomed over Europe, both Dietrich and Remarque fled Nazi Germany to the United States. Remarque was already an acclaimed wunderkind, and Dietrich had made her mark and had gained international fame with her performance as Lola in the film The Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg. This compelling play is based on the personal diaries of Erich Maria Remarque that had been kept in a vault for years and were translated from the German and made accessible for the first time to Julie Gilbert, one of the playwrights. As a result, it reveals previously unknown details about the lives of many of Hollywood’s most famous personalities. |
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