The Song of Songs (1933)
Release Date: Jul 19, 1933 Wide
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Song of Songs was the first Marlene Dietrich vehicle not directed by Dietrich's "Svengali," Josef von Sternberg. The star plays a zaftig German peasant girl who becomes a nude model (anything to get her out of those ill-fitting 1890s costumes!) She falls in love with a struggling sculptor (Brian Aherne), but her ambitions get the better of her and she marries a hedonistic baron (Lionel Atwill). Leaving her husband, Dietrich sinks further down the social scale by becoming a cabaret singer. She is
Jul 19, 1933 Wide
Oct 29, 1998
Paramount Pictures
Cast
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Marlene Dietrich
Lily Czepanek -
Brian Aherne
Richard Waldrow -
Lionel Atwill
Baron von Merzbach -
Alison Skipworth
Frau Rasmussen -
Hardie Albright
Walter Von Prell -
Helen Freeman
Fraulein von Schwartzfe... -
Wilson Benge
Butler -
Hans Schumm
Butler -
Morgan Wallace
"Admirer" -
Eric Wilton
Butler -
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The first Marlene Dietrich film not directed by Josef von Sternberg still has some of the Sternbergian sophisticated romantic touch.
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Foreign Titles
- The Song of Songs (1933) (DE)
- Song Of Songs (UK)
