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The Song of Songs: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. With Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill, Alison Skipworth. Lily falls in love with the sculptor who leaves her out of fear of commitment.
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- Drama, Romance
- Rouben Mamoulian
- 1933-07-19
The Song of Songs is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Marlene Dietrich as a naive German peasant named Lily who moves to Berlin and suffers a considerable amount of heartache. This particular version of the film was based on the 1908 novel The Song of Songs ( Das hohe Lied) by Hermann Sudermann.
Song Of Songs, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Bear Watching After opening with the death of her father in the countryside, innocent Lily (Marlene Dietrich) arrives in Berlin to live with her cynical aunt (Alison Skipworth), who runs a bookstore, early in Rouben Mamoulian’s The Song Of Songs, 1933, co-starring Brian Aherne and Lionel Atwill.
- Rouben Mamoulian
- Marlene Dietrich
Dietrich worked without von Sternberg for the first time in three years in the romantic drama Song of Songs (1933), playing a naïve German peasant, under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian. Dietrich and Sternberg's last two films, The Scarlet Empress (1934) with John Davis Lodge and The Devil Is a Woman (1935)—the most stylized of their ...
In her first American film without the guidance of director Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich was definitely up to the acting challenge of Rouben Mamoulian’s The Song of Songs. Not only are there some fine performances in this 1933 Mamoulian effort, but the screenplay by Leo Birinsky and Samuel Hoffenstein, taken from both Hermann ...
Jun 3, 2011 · Video. Chopin, Schubert and Dietrich (the Latter Nude) Share full article. Marlene Dietrich plays an artist's muse in Rouben Mamoulian's “Song of Songs” (1933), part of a new two-film...
