TheDreadedWoodenSpoon Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 What's the name of the movie... I think it was Marlene Dietrich and Robert Taylor, or actors who look like them. She's high society, refuses to marry him because he's poor. She somehow starts losing her fortune. She makes headlines whenever she visits somewhere, but the headlines get smaller and smaller as she gets poorer and poorer. She finally ends up with the guy in the end, but then he has a truck accident. She has no money for the medicine that will save him. She turns to prostitution. Her landlady understands and as she's going out to turn her first trick the landlady says something like, "Don't you think you need a bit more rouge?" The landlady is the same actress who quoted the Ellis Island phrase, "Give us your tired, your poor..." in the movie I Remember Mama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDreadedWoodenSpoon Posted April 11, 2016 Author Share Posted April 11, 2016 And, she tries to hook the guy's best friend by accident. The best friend tells the guy, but instead of getting mad the guy realizes she really loves him if she was willing to do that for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezebel38 Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 The movie you are describing sounds a lot like FAITHLESS (1932) with Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Montgomery. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1772/Faithless/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Sounds like there are elements from different movies, or some misremembered. The closest I can think of with Marlene Dietrich is Blonde Venus (1932), also with Cary Grant and Herbert Marshall: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69073/Blonde-Venus/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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