Lilli Marlene
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Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
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Cast
29 people
Lisa Daniely
Lilli Marlene
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Hugh McDermott
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Richard Murdoch
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Arthur Crabtree Director · Leslie Wood Writer Stanley Black Composer
United States release July 23, 1951 · Produced in United Kingdom · Production Monarch Productions Limited, RKO
Production
William Gell Productions
Production
Monarch Productions Limited
Production
RKO
Studio
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · December 8, 1950
Theatrical
United States · July 23, 1951
Theatrical
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