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Golden Earrings

  • 19471947
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 35m
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6.7/10
1.2K
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Golden Earrings (1947)
  • Adventure
  • Comedy
  • Drama
On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman.On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman.On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
1.2K
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  • Director
    • Mitchell Leisen
  • Writers
    • Abraham Polonsky(screenplay)
    • Frank Butler(screenplay)
    • Helen Deutsch(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Ray Milland
    • Marlene Dietrich
    • Murvyn Vye
Top credits
  • Director
    • Mitchell Leisen
  • Writers
    • Abraham Polonsky(screenplay)
    • Frank Butler(screenplay)
    • Helen Deutsch(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Ray Milland
    • Marlene Dietrich
    • Murvyn Vye
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    • 24User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    Marlene Dietrich in Golden Earrings (1947)
    Marlene Dietrich and Ray Milland in Golden Earrings (1947)
    Marlene Dietrich and Ray Milland in Golden Earrings (1947)
    Marlene Dietrich and Ray Milland in Golden Earrings (1947)
    Ray Milland in Golden Earrings (1947)
    Golden Earrings (1947)
    Marlene Dietrich and Ray Milland in Golden Earrings (1947)
    Golden Earrings (1947)
    Golden Earrings (1947)
    Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland, and Murvyn Vye in Golden Earrings (1947)
    Golden Earrings (1947)

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    Ray Milland
    Ray Milland
    • Col. Ralph Denistoun
    Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich
    • Lydia
    Murvyn Vye
    Murvyn Vye
    • Zoltan
    Bruce Lester
    Bruce Lester
    • Richard Byrd
    Dennis Hoey
    Dennis Hoey
    • Hoff
    Quentin Reynolds
    • Quentin Reynolds - American Journalist
    Reinhold Schünzel
    Reinhold Schünzel
    • Prof. Otto Krosigk
    Ivan Triesault
    Ivan Triesault
    • Maj. Reimann
    Hermine Sterler
    Hermine Sterler
    • Greta Krosigk
    Harry Anderson
    • German Farmer
    • (uncredited)
    Gordon Arnold
    • Gypsy Boy
    • (uncredited)
    Ellen Baer
    • Gypsy Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Martha Bamattre
    • Wise Old Woman at the Krosigk's
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Bates
    Charles Bates
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Carmen Beretta
    • Tourist
    • (uncredited)
    Louise Colombet
    • Flower Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Cory
    • Burlington Club Doorman
    • (uncredited)
    Gwen Davies
    • Stewardess
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Mitchell Leisen
    • Writers
      • Abraham Polonsky(screenplay)
      • Frank Butler(screenplay)
      • Helen Deutsch(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      In the scene with Lydia and the stew pot, dry ice was used to give the impression of vapors and heat. However, a small fire was lit under it, and when filming resumed, between takes Marlene Dietrich assumed there was no real heat and suffered second-degree burns to her hand. She refused to hold up production and instead kept dipping her hand in the pot that had been refilled with ice water.
    • Goofs
      In the climax where Lydia is escaping though the wilderness from the Nazis, in some shots she is seen wearing high heels and at other times appears in bare feet.
    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
    • Soundtracks
      Golden Earrings
      Music by Victor Young

      Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

      Sung by Murvyn Vye (uncredited)

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    7/10
    Gloriously romantic hokum
    Those reviewers who have complained that this movie lacks plausibility or has problems of construction are missing the point. This is a wonderfully camp romance, with plenty of Play, gypsies! Dance, gypsies! music, that both sends up exotic love stories and celebrates them. Buttoned-up Ray Milland makes an amusing foil for a Dietrich with black hair, tattered scarves, and tons of jewelry. The character's eagerness to feed Milland and look after him more closely resembles the good German hausfrau Dietrich was off the set than her mannered vamp roles. Censorship being in force, it's made clear that they share a caravan on platonic terms only, with Milland fighting off Dietrich's advances with a determination remarkable for a heterosexual bachelor who might be killed any day. His only excuse is that she smells, so perhaps a stuffy, fastidious Englishman might indeed be put off.

    In the small role of Milland's young companion on his secret mission, Bruce Lester adds a note of camp of a different kind. We are told at the beginning that he hero-worships Milland, and indeed he rather fawns on him. When, after they are separated, he meets Milland, now transformed into a brown-skinned gypsy with a shirt open to the waist, his glowing appreciation of the disguise even further suggests that not only Dietrich is romantically infatuated with Milland.

    Despite the wonderfully improbable characters and sequence of events, the growing love of Milland for Dietrich and his acceptance of the non-rational aspects of life is rather touching. And when, on their last night alone before he escapes, he says that each of them now contain half of the other, the two have become one, and then darkness falls, I think we can assume that the censor decided to give them a break! One goof--at the beginning, Milland, who is supposed to be English, refers to a lieutenant, using the American pronunciation. (The English say "leftenant.") Since Milland was British, he must have been saying it that way because the American movie-makers feared that American audiences would be distracted and confused by the British style.
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    • Release date
      • August 27, 1947 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Zlatne mindjuse
    • Filming locations
      • Menucha, Corbett, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $1,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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