The story of the legendary actress Marlene Dietrich who wore trousers against the law against the Nazis

An actress from GermanyMarlene DietrichAlthough he was a favorite of Nazis leader Adolf Hitler, he disliked Nazis and got American citizenship, so in Germany it was forbidden to screen movies. Dietrich's photo exhibition, which is often caught as an icon of LGBTQ, holds the event of "LGBTQ culture fulfilled"Pride paradeTogether with the time together with the timing ofNational Portrait GalleryAnd CNN looks back on the life of a legendary actress along with that picture.

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Marlene Dietrich was born in Berlin in 1901, crossed the United States as a Hollywood actress in the 1930s "Angel of mourning"Shanghai express"MoroccoHe appeared in many movies such as. It is Dietrich successful as a movie actress but, on the other hand, has been known to have been a number of unconventional behavior in sexuality and fashion world.


For example, although Dietrich made his debut and the movie named "Morocco" nominated for the Academy Award was a content that the woman, a singer, fell in love with a man in a foreign soldier, but Dietrich as a singer is in the process I wore a tuxedo, wearing a silk hat, singing a song with a finger capped with a cigar, and acting to kiss a woman. Such expression is the scene which is nothing in the movie as of 2017, but in the 1930's when women who were dressed in conservative fashion were common, the behavior of Dietrich in the movie was shocking It was said that it was things. Diethlich's tuxedo was an unheard of incident in the days when there was no woman like clothes like men.


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Also, in 1933, Dietrich crossed the Atlantic Ocean with a steamer and headed from America to France and Paris. At this time Dietrich was dressed in a white pantsuit, but in realityUntil 2013, Women's wearing trousers was a violation of ordinance in Paris. So when I entered Paris it was Dietrich, warned by a police officer "If you keep on wearing men's clothes you will be arrested", she was warned that while in Paris she wears suit, men's coat, belt, sunglasses He said he did not stop wearing it. Kate Lemay of the National Portrait Gallery said, "Dietrich created her own image and acted according to its image.Therefore, when she could not maintain the public image she created, she I extinguished it. " Dietrich actually said in an interview in 1960 that "I am dressed for the image and not dressed for myself, public, fashion, men."


The charm of Dietrich was not only the beauty of appearance, it was supported by tactfulness and indomitability. And she not only pushed up the boundaries in the movie, but also that it became a symbol of existence beyond sex among the LGBTQ community. When Tabloid paper reported that Dietrich was bisexual in 1955, she did not appeal or make no noise, "she says sex exists as a delusion or obsession in America, but in the world It is a fact in the place of the. "

After that, the image of Dietrich is made not only in Hollywood movies but also in political relations. German at that time by NazisThird EmpireAlthough it was under the reign of Japan,Republic of WeimarDietrich, who grew up with an emphasis on individualism and generosity, said he was unable to tolerate the situation where his home country was eroded by the rise of Hitler. As a result, when I asked Adolf Hitler to appear in a propaganda movie he produces in 1937, Dietrich, who lived in America at that time, refused this. After two years I abandoned even German citizenship to gain American nationality, and during the Second World War I was the predecessor of the CIAInformation Research BureauFor the purpose of recording anti-Nazi · Germany themed album. He sometimes conspired allied soldiers in Europe.

Below is a photograph taken in New York in 1945, Dietrich caught kissing with a soldier who came back from World War II.


With respect to such a behavior of Dietrich, in the German pros and cons, in the case of Dietrich descended to Germany in 1960, when a standing ovation occurred and a placard named "Return to the place where it was originally" was raised at the same time . However, in 2002, 10 years since the death, Dietrich became an honorary citizen of Germany, and nowadays the square next to Potsdamer Platz in Berlin is called "Marlene Dietrich Square". Mr. Lemay says "Today Americans can ask their worth and what is being supported," said Deedrich who lived in a totally different age and passed through himself, It is said that it resonates with the people who live now.