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Article: The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2000
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Secret sirens
Fresh dirt on the lesbian amours of Garbo, Dietrich, and Hollywood's golden girls
The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood * Diana McLellan * L.A. Weekly Books * $25.95
If you have genealogy software, you might want to use it while reading this entertaining chronicle of lesbian interconnection in Hollywood. First, plug in these names: Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes de Acosta, Alla Nazimova, and Tallulah Bankhead. Then add a laundry list of their lovers, female and male, which will include a number of repeats. Pretty soon, you'll have an unimaginably gnarly sapphic family tree.
To McLellan's credit, she's somehow been ...