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Megan Ellison – The Producder Behind Garbo / Dietrich TV Project

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Megan Ellison, the openly bisexual producer of American Hustle and Her, has started making a TV serial focusing on the lives of two female icons of vintage Hollywood: Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.

The project explores the relationship between the frank and forthright Dietrich and the quieter, more reflective Garbo. Some have speculated that the two women may have had a love affair in real life, but it isn’t clear whether this new biopic will touch on that. However, it will examine the passionate dalliances both startlets had with various men and women during the Golden Age of American cinema.

LGBT film lovers are excited by the prospect of Angela Robinson (The L Word, D.E.B.S., True Blood) and Alex Kondracke (The Hug, The L Word) collaborating to write the serial. They are expected to bring their trademark sensitivity and style to this highly-anticipated project.

This week Megan Ellison was named by OUT as one of the most powerful LGBT people in the United States. It is rumoured that when she turned 25 her super-rich father Larry gifted her $2 billion. But rather than spend it selfishly she decided to invest it in a string of critically-acclaimed and Oscar-nominated hits. Ellison was the first woman to be nominated for two Best Picture Oscars in one year.

But rather than continue to produce mainstream commercial movies, Ellison has decided to take a risk and greenlight a project with overt LGBT themes and concerns. She has previously said that LGBT women like her have a duty to support the kinds of films that simply wouldn’t get made in Hollywood, and now she is making good on that pledge.

The question that’s now on everybody’s lips is which actresses will be cast in the roles of the legendary Garbo and Dietrich?

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