Morocco is a 1930 film in which a Foreign Legionnaire meets and falls in love with a sultry seductress. It stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou. 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... A foreign legion is a military force originally established by a monarch, consisting of foreigners who are not normally subjects of the king. ... Gary Cooper (May 7, 1901 - May 13, 1961) was an American film actor who received five Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice. ... Marie Magdalene Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German actress and singer. ... Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 _ October 29, 1963) was an American actor. ...
The movie was adapted by Jules Furthman from the novelAmy Jolly by Benno Vigny. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg. Josef von Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director. ...
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Marlene Dietrich--who, amazingly, knew little English, and spoke her dialogue phonetically), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Director (Josef von Sternberg). Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. ... The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture. ... The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ...
The movie was notorious in its day for a woman-to-woman kiss. It has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Library of Congress, Jefferson building The Library of Congress is the unofficial national library of the United States. ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...
She was a movie star but even more importantly, a "shaker" of the prudish establishment of that time which needed to be challenged in their ridiculous and increasly dated views on life and love.
That movie would catapult her into instant stardom in Germany but then, Sternberg decided that his "protégée" was star material on an international scale and sent her to America where she would be introduced to the world as "Amy Jolly", her character on "Morocco".
She reinvented herself from movie actress to stage singer and performed concerts in many country, continuing to shoot the occasional movie, even though her past stature as a movie goddess was quickly fading by now.
MOROCCO is the second of seven collaborations between Marlene Dietrich and the director that discovered her and probably photographed her the best, Josef von Sternberg.
Tom is just as cynical about women as Amy is about men, but from their first encounter over the price of an apple, you know that these two have met the one person of the opposite sex who could change everything.
Whether it's Dietrich creating a furore of gasps when she emerges in her tux, or when she plants a firm kiss on another lady's mouth (this film was made in *1930*!), she is a simply captivating screen presence--Cooper seems bland in his role in comparison, and Menjou is adequate but certainly doesn't steal the picture.
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