On this day: 6th May
In 1992, Marlene Dietrich died in Paris at the age of 90. She was an icon of the Weimar Republic, a Hollywood star, a refugee, a humanist — and a woman who knew when it was time to exit the stage. In the last century, she was often remembered as a sex symbol or a Hollywood diva, who had relationships with both women and men. This was never a secret, but it was men who were generally mentioned by name.
When Austrian-Swiss director and actor Maximilian Schell asked her about sex with women a few years before her death, while he was making the do
entary "Marlene" (1984) about her, she replied succinctly, "Oh, you know, there's a man, and there's a woman, and then he lies down on her, and then it just happens, right? — It's the same thing with two women."