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1) A Rare Recording of Marlene Dietrich

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Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (December 27, 1901 - May 6, 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the silent film era of the 1920s to the 1980s. Noted for her glamorous persona and exotic looks, Dietrich became one of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses. Dietrich, who sided with the allies, was known for her humanitarian efforts during World War II, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support...

2) Martin Roumagnac

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Dietrich, Marlene

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A provincial builder (Jean Gabin) falls in love with an alluring shopgirl (Marlene Dietrich), oblivious to her crowded romantic past. As the melodrama heats up, Gabin and Dietrich radiate pure matinee charisma, in the only movie these two icons (and real-life lovers!) ever made together.

3) Martin Roumagnac

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This tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Jean Gabin is the titular character, an unpretentious and proudly working class building contractor, who falls in love with Marlene Dietrich’s ravishing shopgirl Blanche, quite unaware that she comes trailing a notorious sexual history and attracts the determined ardor of every man she meets. As...

4) Just a Gigolo

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After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.

5) Paris When It Sizzles

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Screenwriter Richard Benson (William Holden) has a script due in three days. When he asks secretary Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn) to help concoct ideas, she acts out a potpourri of preposterous plots in this classic romantic comedy.