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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #180,371 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #28,785 in Drama DVDs
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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.
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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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.
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2009
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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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.
The Universal DVD is an adequate transfer.