Desire
Desire is a 1936 American romantic crime comedy-drama film starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, directed by Frank Borzage, and produced by Borzage and Ernst Lubitsch. The picture is a remake of the 1933 German film Happy Days in Aranjuez. John Halliday and William Frawley are featured in support.
Plot
Beautiful, young, sexy Madeleine de Beaupre selects a string of perfect pearls worth millions of francs at a posh Parisian jeweler. She cons the owner Aristide Duvalle into believing she is married to an eminent and wealthy psychiatrist, Maurice Pauquet, and has him deliver the pearls to Pauquet's office in order for him to pay for them.
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| author | Edwin Justus Mayer Samuel Hoffenstein Waldemar Young |
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| contentLocation | France |
| director | Frank Borzage |
| editor | William Shea |
| genre | comedy-drama crime |
| keywords | begin con confidence trick criminal life engage evading police front page gang member married on the road pardon paris parole san sebastian string their way |
| musicBy | Friedrich Hollaender |
| producer | Ernst Lubitsch Frank Borzage |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | romantic comedy romantic drama |