The Golden Age Hollywood icon who made the tuxedo a unisex symbol
Marlene Dietrich made the tux luxe for all. Born in Berlin as Marie Magdalene Dietrich, she became a star during Hollywood’s Golden Age. The image she’s best remembered is her turn in a man’s tux with top hat and white tie in Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film Morocco. Google is remembering Marlene Dietrich’s 116th birthday—and her gender-defying tuxedo—with today’s (Dec. 27) doodle. Her boundary-pushing performance—Dietrich, playing a cabaret singer, kisses a woman […]







