Morocco
With this romantic reverie, Marlene Dietrich made her triumphant debut before American audiences and unveiled the enthralling, insouciant persona that would define her Hollywood collaboration with director Josef von Sternberg. Set on the far side of the world but shot outside Los Angeles, Morocco navigates a labyrinth of melancholy and desire as the cabaret singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich), fleeing her former life, takes her act to the shores of North Africa, where she entertains the overtures of a wealthy man of the world while finding herself increasingly drawn to a strapping legionnaire with a shadowy past of his own (Gary Cooper). Fueled by the smoldering chemistry between its two stars, and shot in dazzling light and seductive shadow, the Oscar-nominated Morocco is a transfixing exploration of elemental passions.
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Cast
- Gary Cooper
- Légionnaire Tom Brown
- Marlene Dietrich
- Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
- Adolphe Menjou
- Monsieur La Bessière
- Ullrich Haupt
- Adjutant Caesar
- Eve Southern
- Madame Caesar
- Francis McDonald
- A sergeant
- Paul Porcasi
- Lo Tinto
Credits
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Screenplay by
- Jules Furthman
- From the novel “Amy Jolly, die Frau aus Marrakesch” by
- Benno Vigny
- Produced by
- Hector Turnbull
- Music by
- Karl Hajos
- Photographed by
- Lee Garmes
- Edited by
- Sam Winston
- Costume design by
- Travis Banton
- Sound by
- Harry D. Mills
