United Press International - NewsTrack - Hemingway, Dietrich letters aired: "BOSTON, March 29 (UPI) -- U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway and German siren Marlene Dietrich flirted but likely didn't hook up, family members said.
Peter Riva, the late actress' grandson said the two were only 'great pals' and Valerie Hemingway, the author's daughter-in-law, said 'there is absolutely no evidence of there being an actual affair,' ABC News reported Thursday.
Riva and Hemingway discussed 30 letters written from 1949-59 donated to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston by Dietrich's daughter four years ago but won't be made public until next week.
'I think that it was a flirtation and they were both very large personalities,' she said.
'Whenever he was free, she wasn't. When she was free, he wasn't,' Riva said.
Hemingway wrote Dietrich in 1950 that 'I fall in love with you bad and you're always in love with some jerk' and Dietrich told him, 'I want to kiss you forever and a day ... I can't love you more than I do or deeper or longer.'"
2 comments:
Having Read Maria Riva's book about her mother, which was primarily taken from Marlene's diaries, I'm surprised that she'd let a little thing like either one of them not being free get in the way if she really wanted Hemmingway. I came away from that book absolutely hating Dietrich if for no other reason then for the way she treated her daughter.
There have been strong rumors for years that Hemingway and la Dietrich did, indeed, get it on. So who knows?
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