00:09hello ben mankowitz with you on tcm where we're wrapping up another night of movies featuring
00:14our star of the month gary cooper we're featuring coop's movies every wednesday night in june
00:19up next a second consecutive film where cooper is paired with marlena dietrich
00:24this one is from paramount in 1936 desire cooper plays a good-natured american auto engineer
00:30traveling through europe dietrich is a sophisticated and calculating jewel thief
00:35after poaching a pearl necklace in paris she heads to the spanish border
00:39she encounters cooper who's about to become her accomplice completely unwittingly desire is an
00:47entirely different cooper dietrich feature from the movie we just had morocco morocco was directed
00:53by joseph von sternberg who shepherded dietrich's career in germany and then in the states
00:58after morocco though cooper refused to work with von sternberg again they clashed repeatedly during
01:05production on morocco von sternberg didn't want cooper and he certainly didn't want cooper sharing
01:11top billing with dietrich his muse von sternberg refused to direct cooper in english speaking only
01:17german which understandably enraged cooper anyway that history meant cooper passed on the chance to
01:24co-star with dietrich in von sternberg's 1931 film dishonored by the time cooper and dietrich came
01:31together to make desire dietrich had starred in only one movie without von sternberg desire is directed
01:37by frank borsegi was born in utah and i think we can presume he spoke to cooper in english desire
01:44is a
01:45playful and sophisticated comedy which exposed dietrich to a wider audience and changed how
01:51hollywood saw her borsegi may have directed but desire's producer is one of the all-time great
01:57filmmakers of his time ernst lubich though he couldn't direct since his main job at the time was paramount's
02:03chief of production the witty lubich touch is all over the film borsegi certainly a quality director in
02:10his own right had previously directed cooper in the 1932 adaptation of ernest hemingway's farewell to
02:16arms this one emerged as a sexy and fashionable smash a precursor to sophisticated romantic capers like
02:25to catch thief and the thomas crown affair no surprise with names like cooper dietrich borsegi and lubich
02:31behind it from paramount 1936 also with john holliday william frawley and akim tamirov desire
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