The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret-female Stars Who Loved Other Women

by Axel Madsen

2021-01-05 14:21:40

Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck—to name a few—maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity depart... Read more
Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck—to name a few—maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off the set, all three box office divas were involved in “lavender marriages (marriages of convenience, often to gay men) or remained stoically single. They, and several other Hollywood starlets of the era, were members of a discreet women''s “club called the Sewing Circle, Hollywood''s underground lesbian society. Madsen takes a candid look at the very complicated dual lives these great stars led and the impact their preference for same-sex relationships had on their movie careers.<BR <BR Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.17 in
Print pages256
PublisherOpen Road Distribution
Publication date May 26, 2015
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781504008730

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