A Foreign Affair
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A Foreign Affair is a 1948 film directed by Billy Wilder, starring Marlene Dietrich and Jean Arthur. The songs "Want to Buy Some Illusions?" , "Black Market" and "In the Ruins of Berlin" composed by Friedrich Hollaender were sung by Dietrich. Hollaender appears in the film as the piano accompanist to 'Erika von Schlütow' (Dietrich). The film was produced by Charles Brackett with cinematography by Charles Lang.
Trivia
Director Billy Wilder said famously of his difficulties with Marlene Dietrich and Jean Arthur in the film. "I have one dame who's afraid to look at herself in a mirror and another who won't stop looking!"Cast
- Jean Arthur as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
- Marlene Dietrich as Erika von Schlütow ("Cast of characters" shows her as “Erika Von Schluetow” [ue = u-Umlaut ü])
- John Lund as Captain John Pringle
- Millard Mitchell as Col. Rufus J. Plummer
- Peter von Zerneck as Hans Otto Birgel
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