Morocco

This film will have a recorded introduction by Laura Horak, film historian and author of 'Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema.' The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with So Mayer and Invisible Women.

Cabaret singer Amy Jolly (Marlene Dietrich) spots a Legionnaire (Gary Cooper) at the nightclub where she performs and the two begin a tempestuous affair.

Morocco ushered Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood and cemented her star-image as a chic, suit-wearing seductress. Her appearance in the film flows between masculine and feminine, and the tuxedo became not only a symbol of the independent ‘Modern Woman’ who wore trousers but one which had a lasting legacy in the construction of queer coding.

English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Italian with English subtitles.