The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood

by Diana McLellan

Book, 2000

Publication

St. Martin's Press (2000), 508 pages

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — 2000)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Tallulah Bankhead (cisgender women) had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Publisher's Summary: Diana McLellan reveals the complex and intimate connections that roiled behind the public personae of Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, and the women who loved them. Private correspondence, long-secret FBI files, and troves of unpublished documents reveal a chain of lesbian affairs that moved from the theater world of New York, through the heights of chic society, to embed itself in the power structure of the movie business. The Girls serves up a rich stew of film, politics, sexuality, psychology, and stardom.

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