Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.God bless Marlene Deitrich, the sex bomb screen star who never felt shame over her sexual liberation, or her sexual conquests.
In a career that spanned almost a whopping 70 years, Deitrich became famous for her iconic performances on stage as screen, as well as for numerous lovers of both genders.
When pressed about her liaisons with women, Deitrich famously quipped “In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman – we make love with anyone we find attractive.”We’re tempted to list Deitrich’s most famous lovers here, but we fear we’d never recover from that digression–she had many.