Post by robo on Sept 16, 2018 12:19:19 GMT
Marlene Dietrich
'Falling in Love Again' epitomises Marlene Dietrich’s dangerously sexy femme fatale persona. Her mystique has endured decades and her cool, cross-dressing style has been admired from gays and lesbians, whole world over.
She was introduced to acting in 1924 when she married film director Rudolf Sieber and moved to America when Nazis's gained control in her native Germany. Although she remained married toward Sieber, ths couple had an open marriage and both had relationships with other people. She told Marjorie Rosen: "In Europe it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman. We make love with anyone we find attractive".
This woman, who sucked lemon wedges between takes in keeping her mouth muscles tight, scandalised audiences. By wearing her top hat and tails in Morocco, finishing her song by kissing one female audience member on thier lips. She played this prostitute in Dishonoured, Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus. Marlene shrugged off typecasting by appearing Frenchy, this Western saloon hostess in Destry Rides Again. Eventually, becoming this highest paid actress in her time.
When these roles dried up, she went back on stage. However, after breaking her leg in one performance, she never returned into acting. She spent her last 12 years in her life, bed-ridden. Marlene died on 6 May 1992 in Paris from natural causes, 90 years old.
'Falling in Love Again' epitomises Marlene Dietrich’s dangerously sexy femme fatale persona. Her mystique has endured decades and her cool, cross-dressing style has been admired from gays and lesbians, whole world over.
She was introduced to acting in 1924 when she married film director Rudolf Sieber and moved to America when Nazis's gained control in her native Germany. Although she remained married toward Sieber, ths couple had an open marriage and both had relationships with other people. She told Marjorie Rosen: "In Europe it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman. We make love with anyone we find attractive".
This woman, who sucked lemon wedges between takes in keeping her mouth muscles tight, scandalised audiences. By wearing her top hat and tails in Morocco, finishing her song by kissing one female audience member on thier lips. She played this prostitute in Dishonoured, Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus. Marlene shrugged off typecasting by appearing Frenchy, this Western saloon hostess in Destry Rides Again. Eventually, becoming this highest paid actress in her time.
When these roles dried up, she went back on stage. However, after breaking her leg in one performance, she never returned into acting. She spent her last 12 years in her life, bed-ridden. Marlene died on 6 May 1992 in Paris from natural causes, 90 years old.