The Song of Songs (1933)
July 19, 1933Release Date
The Song of Songs (1933)
July 19, 1933Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Marlene Dietrich
Lily Czepanek
Brian Aherne
Richard Waldow
Lionel Atwill
Baron von Merzbach
Alison Skipworth
Mme Rasmussen
Hardie Albright
Von Prell
Helen Freeman
Fräulein Von Schwertfeger
Max Barwyn
Matire D'
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
French Teacher
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Release DateJuly 19, 1933
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingNR
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The Song of Songs is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Marlene Dietrich. This Paramount picture is based on the Hermann Sudermann novel
Das Hohe Lied (1908) and the play The Song of Songs (1914) by Edward Sheldon.
Song of Songs is a ‘“romantic fable” with “tragic elements” in which an innocent peasant girl is transformed, step-by-step through the vicissitudes of love, into a disillusioned cynic. Most telling in this case is the use in German of the entire phrase to describe the "great song of love" or "ode to love" in Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians. This creates a double layer of meaning to the title of the novel in German, one that could not be duplicated in an English rendition.
The 1914 play, The Song of Songs by Edward Sheldon, also contributed to this version. It is a remake of the 1918 silent film The Song of Songs starring Elsie Ferguson and the 1924 silent film Lily of the Dust with Pola Negri.