Morocco

film by Sternberg [1930]

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Morocco is a 1930 American romantic adventure film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper. The film centers on the love between a cabaret singer, Amy Jolly (Dietrich), and a French Foreign Legion soldier, Tom Brown (Cooper). Morocco was a commercial success and helped establish Dietrich as a Hollywood star, with both her and von Sternberg receiving Oscar nominations. This film was one of seven collaborations between von Sternberg and Dietrich, who became one of the world's most glamorous film stars due to her beauty, voice, and sophisticated persona.12

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…von Sternberg vehicles that followed—Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), and The Devil Is a Woman (1935). She showed a lighter side in Desire (1936), directed by Frank Borzage, and
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…von Sternberg vehicles that followed—Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), and The Devil Is a Woman (1935). She showed a lighter side in Desire (1936), directed by Frank Borzage, and
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