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The Song of Songs

Rouben Mamoulian (Director), Marlene Dietrich (Actor), Brian Aherne (Actor) Rated:

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Genre	Drama
Format	NTSC
Contributor	Samuel Hoffenstein, Lionel Atwill, Leo Birinsky, Rouben Mamoulian, Brian Aherne, Marlene Dietrich
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 30 minutes

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Starring one of Hollywood's most glamorous screen legends, Marlene Dietrich, The Song of Songs is the shocking story of Lily, a beautiful but naive peasant girl who is lured into posing as a nude model for aspiring sculptor Richard (Brian Aherne). Their working relationship quickly develops into a passionate love affair but, unable to commit himself to marriage, Richard abandons Lily and she is forced to marry a lecherous baron (Lionel Atwill) who has bribed her aunt.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.4 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ USMD9209752DVD
Director ‏ : ‎ Rouben Mamoulian
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 30 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2011
Actors ‏ : ‎ Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill
Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal Studios
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005STRQYG
Writers ‏ : ‎ Leo Birinsky, Samuel Hoffenstein
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Range Girl

Sensual young Dietrich & Aherne

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2012

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No tech complaints, good black/white copy, acceptable sound. Classic love story, well photographed, wonderful acting, great character actors and costuming. There are moments when Brian Aherne reminds me of a Brit version of Gary Cooper, the stature, the demeanor. A couple of the love scenes between Dietrich & Aherne are surprisingly sensual, well directed and photographed for a movie that was probably not a huge production. Those scenes especially, make this a must see, must add, for those interested in Marlene Dietrich and/or Brian Aherne.

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Gretchen9449

Song of Songs - Marlene Dietrich - Lionel Atwill - Brilliant movie!

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2013

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Marlene Dietrich fans and fans of the Golden Age of Hollywood will LOVE this movie. I certainly did.
First time I had seen Dietrich in a movie. Robert Mamoulian directed her beautifully in this tale of sheltered country girl coming to work in town at Aunty's (Alison Skipworth) bookstore and meeting young, handsome sculptor from across the road.

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Stephen Schicker

A nice look at Marlene though not as sexy as her later films in France with Jean Gabin

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2019

for my own viewing

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2020

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disc would not play on my machine

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Charlie

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2016

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Wonderful!

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Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2016

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Alan Dale Daniel

Plot Twists and The Film Is In Great Shape - Just Like Marlene.

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2018

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Good to excellent film quality and Marlene is beautiful. Her outfits are stunning in several scenes. Meanwhile, the men in the story are either amazingly dumb or totally ruthless. There is a naked statue, roughed up, in several scenes that purports to be Marlene, but in fact represents the ideal woman, at least to the artist. What eventually happens to the statue is another symbolic event somehow summing up the message of the film. The message is lost on me, unless it’s “don’t be stupid.”

Marlene starts out a peasant girl and ends up a kept woman, and it all starts with an artist’s dream that devolves into a nightmare. The plot has a few unexpected twists that, while unlikely, adds meat to the story. By the time Marlene is working at prostitution everything appears hopeless. And, perhaps, it is. After all, a lot has happened. Watch it and discover the last twist. Even if you don’t like the movie Marlene Dietrich is a treat.
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young Dietrich glows in rare early non-Sternberg effort

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2009

The first film under her Paramount contract without Josef von Sternberg in the directors' chair, THE SONG OF SONGS (1933) is one of Dietrich's most accomplished from her early career. Due in no small part to the delicate direction of Rouben Mamoulian, Dietrich glows like a Flemish painting come to thrilling life, in a story of love, deep religious conviction, redemption, and obsession...

When her penniless father dies, young Lily Czepanek (Marlene Dietrich) goes to live with an unwelcoming aunt (Alison Skipworth), but soon befriends kind artist Richard Waldow (Brian Aherne). Bewitched by her unique beauty, he asks her to pose for a statue....the resemblance of which reminds Lily of the girl in her father's favourite Bible passage, "The Song of Songs". Lily's statue also becomes the obsession of Baron von Merzbach (Lionel Atwill), an older gentlemen who soon manages to split the young lovebirds apart so that he may claim the real girl for himself...

The movie made headlines when it was reported that Dietrich had indeed posed for the nude statue of Lily which features prominently in the plot.

Marlene Dietrich effortlessly shifts from innocent young girl, to jaded Baroness and fallen woman in this fascinating drama. I'll say without any hesitation that it's one of the best from her early career. Highly-recommended.

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Michael

Gorgeous Dietrich

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2015

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One of my favourite Dietrich movies, she is at her most beautiful throughout...

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KaleHawkwood

The art of love

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2018

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Taking a reluctant break from her Svengali mentor, lover and favourite director Josef von Sternberg, the sublime Marlene starred in this rather stiff, tonally uncertain drama in which she plays a variant of previous roles ~ the sweet innocent who, due to circumstances, becomes far from innocent.
In this 1933 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian, she is an orphaned country girl Lily, who goes to the big city, Berlin, to live with her vulgar, abusive aunt.
Across the road lives a young sculptor Richard, played by the rather colourless British actor Brian Aherne. He starts well, but seems to lose interest in the story before one's very eyes, playing the final (admittedly absurd) scene very badly indeed. Another Brit, the stiffly unyielding Lionel Atwill, is the lecherous, monacled Baron, to whom Lily succumbs when, after sculpting her nude and having an idyllic affair with her, Richard drops her.
Marlene, as she invariably did without any fuss in her first few American movies, acts everyone else off the screen, while apparently doing very little. Her sheer naturalness in her thirties films is not often enough stressed; she had been a good learner ~ and had by then already done quite a lot of both theatre and film ~ and understood what the camera needed to see, so she acted with just enough inner conviction (even in relative tosh such as this) as well as a unique, amused passivity and an erotic glow not even Garbo could match.
Here, she manages both to glow with an inner spiritual flame the role demands, as well as a maddening sensual flame she barely shows in her ingenuous eyes and abandoned body language. Oh, but Marlene really was a consummate actress and an unsurpassed tease.
Despite my criticisms, this is worth seeing, if only for the once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon that was Dietrich. There is a dogged, staid quality to this film ~ odd considering the ostensibly daring subject matter ~ but whenever Marlene is on screen, which is most of the time, nobody looks away.

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The CinemaScope Cat

Overwrought melodrama with an erratic Dietrich performance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2012

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A rather naive young country girl (Marlene Dietrich) moves to Berlin to live with her miserly aunt (Alison Skipworth, DANGEROUS). There, she falls in love with a sculptor (Brian Aherne), she poses nude for him, who abandons her thus leaving her in the hands of the crude and decadent Baron (Lionel Atwill) who will transform her. This excessive gaudy melodrama, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, is entertaining in its own flamboyant way but its artistic pretensions are not to be taken seriously. The film is divided into three parts: Dietrich the country girl, Dietrich the bruised Baroness, Dietrich the slut. Curiously, Dietrich is most effective as the trusting country maid though there's nothing rustic about her! Surprisingly, her performance seems to get progressively worse as her character becomes more sophisticated. Innocence, betrayal, suffering, decadence: all the things fans of 30s kitsch could ask for in one movie though one may wonder that this came from the same director who gave us the elegant LOVE ME TONIGHT the year before. With Helen Freeman and Hardie Albright.

The Universal DVD is an adequate transfer.

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W. Russell

Joy Unconfined

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2010

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Dietrich starts off as a rather plump peasant girl and ends up as a langurous beauty. Sculptor,Brian Aherne, spots her, models her in the nude, but being poor fails to make an honest woman of her and allows his patron, Lionel Atwill, a lecherous count, to take her instead. The plot is nonsense, but Dietrich is, as always, totally fascinating, there are some daring moments - sex may not happen on screen as it does today but a lot gets suggested - and it is never dull.

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Anthony Harrison

Not really as good as those she did for him

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2016

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A non-von Sternberg movie during her von Sternberg period. Not really as good as those she did for him.

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