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Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, dressed in formal attire, sit at a table holding drinks and gazing at each other in a scene from the 1936 film Desire.
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Desire

film by Borzage [1936]
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Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, dressed in formal attire, sit at a table holding drinks and gazing at each other in a scene from the 1936 film Desire.
Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper in Desire Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper in Desire (1936).

Desire is a 1936 film directed by Frank Borzage. The film stars Gary Cooper as an American engineer on vacation in France who becomes entangled with a glamorous jewel thief, played by Marlene Dietrich. As they pursue each other across Spain, they fall in love. The film was made under the supervision of production chief Ernst Lubitsch.12

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