Marlene Dietrich
Lily Czepanek
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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.
- July 19, 1933 (United States)
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
In The Song of Songs, Dietrich plays Lily Czepanek, a naive country girl who goes to live in Berlin after her father dies. Once there, she works in her Aunt’s book store and discovers the world. The sculptor Waldow (played by Brian Aherne), lives upstairs and notices Lily’s unspoiled beauty. He convinces her to model nude for him.
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Song Of Songs, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Make A Great Lady Of You! Expecting to finally see the sculpture that her artist-lover Richard has made of her, Lily (Marlene Dietrich) instead finds him gone, having left a note with his patron Baron Von Merzbach (Lionel Atwill), who provides an explanation favoring his own preferences, in Rouben Mamoulian’s The Song Of Songs, 1933.
- Rouben Mamoulian
- Marlene Dietrich
Sep 19, 2020 · After the death of her father, Lily (Marlene Dietrich) travels to Berlin to stay with her aunt, Frau Rasmussen (Alison Skipworth), and becomes acquainted wit...
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Jun 3, 2011 · Marlene Dietrich plays an artist's muse in Rouben Mamoulian's “Song of Songs” (1933), part of a new two-film set on DVD. Universal. By Dave Kehr. June 3, 2011. AFTER “Blonde Venus” flopped ...
