Marlene Dietrich: Ultimate Gay Icon 2017

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Marlene Dietrich - movie star, concert artiste, war hero and lesbian. Come and join Terry Sanderson for this special Pride Festival event looking at the life and times of one of history's most enduring gay icons.

From her beginnings in the "divine decadence" of Weimar Berlin, where she fully availed herself of the pleasures of the extensive gay scene to her ascent to the very heights of world-wide fame.

We will look at her Hollywood career using generous clips from her campest films then, accessing rare archive material, give a moving tribute to her phenomenal work as an anti-Nazi during WWII.

The evening culminates with a complete performance, on the big screen, of her fabulous one-woman show with which she toured the world, Recorded in Sweden in 1963, this is Dietrich at her peak, accompanied by Burt Bacharach and his orchestra.

Don't miss this opportunity to see a legendary performer, and undoubted gay hero, in dazzling form.