âMy Best Girlfriendâ: Queer Dietrich, on screen and off
Modelling top hats and tuxedos, Marlene Dietrich brought an aura of cabaret decadence to her films of the 1930s, yet it was her off-screen habit of wearing trousers to Hollywood premieres that inflamed the media.
14 December 2020
Morocco (1930)
In the introduction to her groundbreaking study of pioneer female filmmaker Dorothy Arzner, Judith Mayne includes a snapshot that is very definitely not of the director, but that was in her archive at UCLA. The candid snap shows Marlene Dietrich holding a large, extremely grumpy cat that she is regarding adoringly, in the courtyard of Arzner and Marion Morganâs home in Hollywood.