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Similar to her on-screen persona, Marlene Dietrich fostered close relationships with both men and women.

She married casting director Rudolf Sieber in , and they welcomed their only child, Maria, the following year. Marlene Dietrich was the lynchpin to an underground society that she called ‘The Sewing Circle’. This term described an underbelly of Hollywood comprising of closeted lesbian and bisexual film actresses reportedly including Greta Garbo, Ann Warner and a string of other big names from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Marie Magdalene " Marlene " Dietrich[4] (/ mɑːrˈleɪnə ˈdiːtrɪx /, German: [maʁˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç] ⓘ; 27 December – 6 May ) [5] was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades. [6] In s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. It was the former film that gifted what Laura Horak identifies as probably our era’s “most-reproduced likeness” of Dietrich, as drolly-named performer Amy Jolly – jolly as synonym for gay?

– in her perfectly-fitted top hat and tails, cigarette dangling. Lemay highlights another aspect of the Dietrich mystique, explaining that she “brought androgyny to the silver screen” and embraced bisexuality both in the masculine clothes she wore and in the. 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 Blue 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. Throughout her career, she was known for challenging gender assumptions, often dressing in tuxedos. She would frequently begin 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.

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She also wore her famous tux, flirted with, and kissed a woman in the film Morocco. While she still lived in Berlin in the s, she enjoyed the thriving gay scene. Even then she was challenging gender roles, boxing at a famous prizefighter's boxing studio. Although she could not be public about her sexuality, she did not work especially hard to keep her exciting love life secret.

She had many affairs often with the knowledge of her husband with both men and women. Dietrich was a member of "The Sewing Circle," a phrase used to describe a collection of quietly lesbian and bi actresses in Hollywood. Marlene Dietrich.