Video: Marlene Dietrich and Ernest Hemingway: more than friendship, less than love
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The boundaries beyond which friendship between a man and a woman ends and something more begins is very difficult to define. Especially when it comes to creative individuals. Ernest Hemingway called his relationship with Marlene Dietrich "Unsynchronized passion": he woke up feelings when she was not free, and vice versa. Their romance lasted almost 30 years - perhaps so long precisely because it remained epistolary (now they would say - virtual). But there was so much passion in these letters that it is simply impossible to call it friendship.
They met on board the American liner Ile de France in 1934. Marlene Dietrich recalled: “I fell in love with him at first sight. My love was sublime, no matter what people said about it. I emphasize this because the love between Ernest Hemingway and me was pure, boundless - this, probably, does not happen in this world anymore. Our love went on for many, many years, without hope or desire. Apparently, we were bound by the complete hopelessness that we both experienced. I respected his wife Mary, the only one of all his women whom I knew. I, like Mary, was jealous of his former women, but I was only his friend and remained her all the years. I keep his letters and hide them away from prying eyes. They belong only to me, and no one will make money from them. As long as I can prevent this!.
Both sincerely admired each other, but did not believe in love between them - they knew about real hobbies and romances and did not interfere with them. Hemingway wrote: “We have been in love since 1934 when we first met, but we were never in the same bed. Surprisingly, this is true. Victims of unsynchronized passion. " The actress echoed the writer: “My love for Hemingway was not a fleeting affection. We just didn't have to be together for a long time in the same city. Either he was busy with some girl, or I was not free when he was free."
One can judge about Hemingway's feelings for Dietrich by the quotes from his letters to her: “I forget about you sometimes, as I forget that my heart is beating”; “I cannot express in words that every time I hugged you, I felt like I was at home”; “You are so beautiful that you need to take full-length passport photos”; "Marlene, I love you so passionately that this love will forever be my curse."
Their romance in letters lasted until the death of Hemingway in 1961, which Marlene experienced very hard: “He was my 'Gibraltar rock', and he liked this title. Years passed without him, and each year it became more painful than the previous one. "Time heals wounds" - only soothing words, this is not true, although I would like it to be so."
Marlene Dietrich continued to be jealous even after his death: “I really miss him. If there was life after death, he would have talked to me now, maybe these long nights. But he is lost forever, and no sorrow can bring him back. Anger does not heal. Anger that he left you alone leads nowhere. He said he would never leave me. But who was I among the people he left behind - his children, his wife, everyone who depended on him; I was the seventh spoke in the chariot. He didn't take me into account."
Marlene Dietrich's grandson Peter Riva said: “The most beautiful thing about their relationship was that they were so intimate because they had never been lovers. This is about love, not sex. Apparently he was right.
A 10 little-known facts about Ernest Hemingway will help to lift the veil over some mysterious moments of his biography.
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