This is a rare chance to see Marlene Dietrich in one of the last films she made in Germany before she was spotted by actor/director Josef von Sternberg and taken to the States to star as Lola in The Blue Angel, thus beginning her stratospheric Hollywood career.

In I Kiss Your Hand, Madam, Dietrich’s only silent comedy, she plays a recent divorcee who pins her hopes on a future with a rich Russian count, disbelieving her ex’s claims that the man is penniless and working as a waiter.

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