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6 December 1930 (USA)
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The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret...
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Singer
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Foreign Legion
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Romantic Rivalry
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Army
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Topless
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 2 wins
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Josef Von Sternberg: Eros & Abstraction—Morocco (1930)
(From Twitch. 7 February 2009, 11:32 AM, PST)
(From Twitch. 7 February 2009, 11:32 AM, PST)
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Marlene Comes to America
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Gary Cooper | ... | Légionnaire Tom Brown | |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... | Mademoiselle Amy Jolly | |
| Adolphe Menjou | ... | Monsieur La Bessiere | |
| Ullrich Haupt | ... | Adjutant Caesar | |
| Eve Southern | ... | Madame Caesar | |
| Francis McDonald | ... | A Sergeant | |
| Paul Porcasi | ... | Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner |
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Amy Jolly (USA) (working title)
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92 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The infamous scene where Marlene Dietrich kisses another woman - which was added to the script at Dietrich's suggestion - was saved from being cut by the censors by Dietrich herself: she came up with the idea of taking a flower from the woman before kissing her and then giving the flower to Gary Cooper, explaining that if the censors cut the kiss the appearance of the flower would make no sense.
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Featured in Akuma no temari-uta (1977)
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Soundtrack:
What Am I Bid for My Apple?
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After her stunning international success in The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich was open to all kinds of film offers from all countries. She shrewdly negotiated with Adolph Zukor at Paramount Pictures in the USA and made her feature film debut in Morocco co-starring with Paramount's number one leading man Gary Cooper. She couldn't have predicted it, but it was a permanent move away from Germany.
Dietrich was a package deal for with her came the director of The Blue Angel Joseph Von Sternberg. No doubt Von Sternberg created the image that we now know her for, sensual, alluring, and standing by her man when she does make her choice.
One thing about Morocco I found different than most of the films I've seen of Dietrich is that she's not in control of the situation. In most films she usually is, but in Morocco Cooper's very much in charge. She's got a wealthy man in Adolphe Menjou panting after her, but she can't see him for beans. It's Gary Cooper an ordinary dogface Foreign Legionaire that she's fallen for.
Cooper in fact plays a part Tyrone Power would affect great success with later, a hero/heel. Cooper is carrying on an affair with the wife of one of the officers at his post when he meets Dietrich. The man must have had something going for him.
Von Sternberg did a great job in creating the atmosphere of not only Morocco, but of the Foreign Legion. Men with forgotten pasts and dubious futures, living only for the moment.
Although I think Marlene Dietrich did better films than Morocco in her Hollywood years, Morocco was a grand and auspicious beginning for her.