Mirror, Mirror
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‘Hollywood, we’re reminded, is after all a through-the-looking glass world, and Byrne writes authoritatively about its illusions and obscene, glittering excess … Compelling’ Daily Mail‘Both eye-poppingly fun and thought-provoking’ The TimesMadou is the most beautiful woman in the world.Discovered in a Berlin cabaret in the roaring twenties, she is brought to the glamour of Los Angeles. She becomes a superstar of the silver screen and Hollywood’s darling, but nothing perfect lasts forever.The cost of beauty is always high, for those who have it and those who live in its shadow. The weight falls on her daughter to untangle the complicated truths of being ordinary beside an extraordinary mother, a woman who has bent and broken and skewed her perception of reality, a woman adored by the world, but from whom her daughter longs to escape.Evocative and deeply moving, Mirror, Mirror is based on Marlene Dietrich’s glittering life, a dramatic novel set in Hollywood’s golden age, that tells the story of mothers and daughters and of time’s war against beauty – and the unbearable pain of a woman when beauty is the only game in town.
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Paula Byrne. Mirror, Mirror
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraphs
Contents
Prologue
The Devil is a Woman
Someday I’ll Find You
The Scarlet Empress
I Like America
The Garden of Allah
Sigh No More
Stage Fright
This Time Tomorrow
The Lady is Willing
Bonne Nuit, Merci
The Little Napoleon
The Party’s Going with a Swing
The Woman One Longs For
Farewell Song
Manpower
Dream Girl
Song of Songs
I’m Old Fashioned
Follow the Boys
Poor Lady in the Throes of Love
A Modern Dubarry
There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner
Desire
You’re the Top
I Loved a Soldier
World Weary
A Foreign Affair
The Stately Homes of England
The Ship of Lost Souls
I Wonder What Happened to Him?
The Spoilers
Down with the Whole Damn Lot
I Kiss your Hand, Madam
Love a Little
Angel
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans
I Am a Camera
Cowardy Custard
Around the World in 80 Days
This is a Changing World
No Highway in the Sky
Top of the Morning
Leap into Life
Twentieth Century Blues
The Big Bluff
Wait a Bit, Joe
Man by the Roadside
When My Ship Comes Home
The Imaginary Baron
When We Were Girls Together
Heads Up, Charley
Ace of Clubs
Touch of Evil
Let’s Do It
Madame Doesn’t Want Children
Bitter Sweet
Knight without Armour
Sail Away
Why Cry at Parting?
Why Must the Show Go On?
The Imaginary Baron
Dearest Love
Black Fox
Don’t Put your Daughter on the Stage
Art of Love
Nevermore
No Highway in the Sky
How Do You Do, Middle Age
Nights of Love
Pageant
Golden Earrings
London at Night
In the Shadow of Happiness
On With the Dance
Dishonored
Tonight is Ours
I Lift up My Lamp
The Party’s Over Now
Rancho Notorious
There’s a Younger Generation
Show Business at War
We Were Dancing
The Happy Mother
The Dream is Over
Kismet
Suite in Three Keys
Princess Ololah
Waiting in the Wings
Witness for the Prosecution
Kater Through the Looking Glass
Why Does Love Get in the Way?
The Tragedy of Love
I Travel Alone
I Wish You Love
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Just a Gigolo
You Were There
The Countess of Paris
Just Let Me Look at You
Paris When it Sizzles
Let’s Say Goodbye
The HMS Disgusting
The Blue Angel
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Also by Paula Byrne
About the Author
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