The Girls: Sappho Goes To Hollywood is a 2000 book by Diana McLellan that speculates on a romance between Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. The Observer found it "purely speculative" and "uncorroborated". Kirkus found it "lively". Publishers Weekly was more approving, saying McLellan was able to "bring a broader context and new sense of scholarship to the subject". The Houston Chronicle praised "exhaustive" research and found the book far from salacious.
It was nominated in the Lesbian Studies category for the 13th Lambda Literary Awards.
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Notable media mentions The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood by Norah Vincent, The Baltimore Sun, September 24, 2000 The Girls: Sappho Goes To Hollywood Publishers Weekly, October 2, 2000 "Screen Sirens" by Dawn Trouard, The Washington Post, November 12, 2000 "Secret Sirens: Fresh dirt on the lesbian amours of Garbo, Dietrich, and Hollywood's golden girls" by Michele Kort, The Advocate, December 5, 2000 "Closet Hollywood" by David Freeman, The New York Times, January 7, 2001 "Ladies who lie together..." by William Langley, The Telegraph, January 9, 2001 "'I Want to Try Everything Once' / Tallulah Bankhead's bisexual braggadocio stands up to scrutiny" "'I Want to Try Everything Once' / Tallulah Bankhead's bisexual braggadocio stands up to scrutiny" -- Cached on Dropbox by Nancy Warren, The San Francisco Chronicle / SF Gate, January 26, 2001 "Marlene, she's making eyes at me" by Gaby Wood, The Guardian, April 7, 2001 "New in Paperback" by The Washington Post, October 7, 2001 "Wild Girls" by Molly Haskell, The Guardian, January 8, 2004
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