Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich on a barrel, with legs seductively crossed, as passionate and dangerous Lola-Lola from the movie Blue Angel, based on a novel Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann, became an iconic scene in film history, so many times duplicated in the future. What this movie created was an all-time screen goddess, very much different from the cultural atmosphere which was to take place in post WW II world. In fact, she belonged to an era of a true sexual revolution, a movement that is so often contributed to the wild 60s, although it's truest and purest form was in the time of Marlene Dietrich.
So, what does this exactly mean? Movie legends that dominated the silver screen in the very experimental 20s were of unique qualities and sensibility, never truly seen again in history. One of those, besides the fact that they were all women from Northern Europe (this is the period of the rise of the theory of dominating races), was a bisexual sensibility. These women were slightly or full-on androgynous in their also often cold appearances, which didn't stop them to be the first on film femme fatales.
Marlene Dietrich was a picture of an independent, smart and, with that, extremely sexy woman in this pre WW II era, a true female idol, with strong political believes, that could take on any man, especially when she was wearing a male tuxedo :).
