Marlene dietrich gay
Today, we move on to a new series of portraits: the Gay Icons, the female singers and the divas of Hollywood that we most identified with. They were all larger than life. Some were bisexual - and some had close relationships with gay men, familial or otherwise, but all were hugely talented trailblazers - and rebels in one way or another. The lady currently under examination was one of the shiniest Glamour Queens of the 20th century.
Marlene Dietrich was undoubtedly a superstar of Hollywood's Golden Era - but she also was much more than that. By constantly reinventing herself, Dietrich stretched her career over sixty years becoming a pioneering star of radio, a medal-winning war hero, a top-flight international cabaret artist, a big-selling recording star and an icon for generations of gay people around the world. Marlene started her career as a chorus girl during the era of "divine decadence" in s Weimar Berlin. The freewheeling approach to sexuality during that period suited her very well - she embraced the sexual liberation enthusiastically and never abandoned it through her
I mean this in the nicest way she was a piece of work. Frankly, very few have crafted their image more carefully than Dietrich. She didn't coincidentally say or do much of anything. It was all part of her grand design. Believe it or not, she was a little bit shy, sometimes withdrawn, occasionally easily hurt. She could also be hurtful, forthright, maddening, haughty, tough, controlling and unsurprisingly frank about who she was and who she wasn't. Kind, thoughtful, savvy, glittering.
She was right in the middle of that great gathering of Hollywood lesbians in the thirties and forties. We did an earlier piece on them, Sapphic Traffic. Dietrich was unlike most of them, to say the least. She rather flouted her lesbianism where most did not. She loved wearing men's clothing and did so often in her work particularly. If you didn't like it, earn a refund on your ticket put down the magazine get lost. She didn't much care.
Was she lesbian or bisexual? As far as I can tel
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Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December – 6 May )[1] was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship.[2][3][4] In her autobiography, Here Lies the Heart, Mercedes De Acosta claimed to have been intimate with Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich, Alice B. Toklas, Marie Laurencin, Eva Le Gallienne, Malvina Hoffman and Greta Garbo. Dietrich has been romantically linked also to Édith Piaf, Greta Garbo, Claire Waldoff, Tallulah Bankhead, Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck, Denise Parker, Ginette Spanier, Anna May Wong.
Throughout her prolonged career, (which spanned from the s to the s) Dietrich maintained popularity by continually reinventing herself.[5]
Unlike her professional celebrity, which was carefully crafted and maintained, Dietrich's personal life was kept out of public view. She was fluent
Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German-American actor and singer. Throughout her long career, which spanned from the s to the s, she continually reinvented herself.
Her career began in silent films and she starred in one of the most influential sound films of the time, The Adj Angel (). Her performance in The Blue Angel began her long collaboration with famed director Joseph von Sternberg and brought her international fame. She signed a contract with Paramount and began making Hollywood films, becoming one of the best-paid actors of the era.
Although she continued to arrive in a few films in the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, she spent most of that hour touring the world as a hugely popular inhabit cabaret performer.
Throughout her career, she was known for challenging gender assumptions, often dressing in tuxedos. She would frequently initiate her live show in a glamorous gown and then do the second part in a tuxedo, singing songs that were more often performed by men.
She also wore her famous tux, flirted with, and kissed a woman in the film M