Directed by:
Josef von SternbergScreenplay:
Jules FurthmanComposer:
Karl HajosCast:
Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern, Francis McDonald, Paul Porcasi, Harry Schultz, Albert Conti, Juliette Compton (more)Plots(1)
With this romantic reverie, Marlene Dietrich made her triumphant debut before American audiences and unveiled the enthralling, insouciant persona that would define her Hollywood collaboration with director Josef von Sternberg. Set on the far side of the world but shot outside Los Angeles, Morocco navigates a labyrinth of melancholy and desire as the cabaret singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich), fleeing her former life, takes her act to the shores of North Africa, where she entertains the overtures of a wealthy man of the world while finding herself increasingly drawn to a strapping legionnaire with a shadowy past of his own (Gary Cooper). Fueled by the smoldering chemistry between its two stars, and shot in dazzling light and seductive shadow, the Oscar-nominated Morocco is a transfixing exploration of elemental passions. (Criterion)
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Gary Cooper
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Marlene Dietrich
German Empire
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Adolphe Menjou
USA
Best movies:
Paths of Glory (1957)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Zelig (1983) - a.f.
Ullrich Haupt
German Empire
Best movies:
The Iron Mask (1929)
Morocco (1930)
Eve Southern
USA
Best movies:
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Fighting Caravans (1931)
Morocco (1930)
Francis McDonald
USA
Best movies:
The Viking (1928)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Paul Porcasi
Italy
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Harry Schultz
German Empire
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Morocco (1930)
Albert Conti
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
The Crusades (1935)
The Eagle (1925)
Juliette Compton
USA
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Devil and the Deep (1932)
Theresa Harris
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Jezebel (1938)
Out of the Past (1947)
Emile Chautard
France
Best movies:
Design for Living (1933)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Seventh Heaven (1927)
Michael Visaroff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Madame Curie (1943)
Midnight (1939)