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The Song of Songs (1933)

1h 30m

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The Song of Songs (1933)

Name: The Song of Songs
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 1933-07-19

1h 30m

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July 19, 1933
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Plot.

After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love. A patron of Richard's, Baron von Merzbach, develops an interest in Lily that may not be with the best of intentions.

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Release Date
July 19, 1933

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 30m

Content Rating
NR

Genres
Romance Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-10

This Movie Is About.

love triangle

naivety

love

lust

extramarital affair

pre-code

sculptor

nude modeling

Wiki.

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.