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A Foreign Affair is a 1948 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich and John Lund. The screenplay by Charles Brackett, Wilder and Richard L. Breen is based on a story by David Shaw adapted by Robert Harari.
Released Aug 20, 1948 1h 56m Musical Comedy CTA List. 100% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 77% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings. Idealistic Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur) touches down in postwar...
A Foreign Affair: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell. In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
Mar 3, 2015 · A film review of Wilder's comedy about a US Army officer and a German nightclub singer in post-war Berlin. The article explores the historical and personal context of the film, as well as its themes of propaganda, ideology and romance.
Foreign Affair, A (1948) -- (Movie Clip) For 15 Years We Haven't Slept Captain Pringle (John Lund) arrives with gifts for his torch-singer girlfriend Erika (Marlene Dietrich) in her bombed-out hide-out in the American zone in Berlin, in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair, 1948.
Mar 16, 2020 · A congressional envoy (Jean Arthur) clashes with a GI (John Lund) and a former Nazi singer (Marlene Dietrich) in bombed-out Berlin. Wilder's film satirizes the American occupation and the moral dilemmas of the era with wit and style.
Congresswoman Phoebe Frost travels to postwar Berlin to investigate reports that an American officer may be protecting cabaret singer Erika von Schlütow, the former mistress of a leading Nazi. Miss Frost falls for her military escort Captain Pringle, unaware that he is in fact the singer’s paramour.
