Gay Icon: Marlene Dietrich - Quand L'Amour Meurt

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From "Morocco" (Josef von Sternberg, 1930) Marlene Dietrich's debut in Hollywood. The infamous scene where Marlene Dietrich kisses another woman - which was added to the script at Dietrich's suggestion - was saved from being cut by the censors by Dietrich herself: she came up with the idea of taking a flower from the woman before kissing her and then giving the flower to Gary Cooper, explaining that if the censors cut the kiss the appearance of the flower would make no sense. This film ...