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July 19, 2005
Lili Marlene
Not many of you know that Fat Charlie is a wee bit obsessed with Marlene Dietrich. Many of you probably don't even know who she is.
FUN FACTS:
She was born the same day as Fat Charlie (well, not the same day, dumbass. She's a classic movie star.) December 27. 1901 in Berlin.
She slept with JFK.
She caused traffic jams in Paris in the thirties when she dared to venture out in the streets wearing "slacks."
She slept with Jimmy Stewart.
She denounced Nazi Germany and became an American citizen mere months before the start of WWII. (She applied for citizenship in 1934.)
She slept with Gertrude Stein.
She was not a feminist. In fact, she hated "women's lib" as she called it, ignorant of the fact that she would be seen by many women to be the ultimate liberated woman.
She slept with Edith Piaf.
She did not like her most famous song "Falling In Love Again" nor did she like the movie that made her a star "The Blue Angel."
But she did sleep with Jo Von Sternberg, the director.
She never won an Oscar.
She slept with Yul Brenner
She died a recluse in Paris in 1992.
She slept with Edward R. Morrow
Gwenyth Paltrow will be playing her in her biopic.
She did not sleep with Hemingway.
Posted by emily at July 19, 2005 10:30 PM