the hospital. It turns out Tom had been faking an injury to avoid combat and, when this was discovered, he was assigned to a new unit in the Legion. Amy goes to a bar where Tom was, misses him, and instead finds that he has carved into the table the name Amy, showing that he still loves her, which surprises her. The next morning, Amy and La Bessière watch Tom's new unit march away. She catches Tom's eye and the two wave goodbye. When Amy sees the handful of women following the legionnaires they love, she leaves La Bessière, kicks off her high-heeled shoes, and follows Tom into the desert. Cast Gary Cooper as Légionnaire Tom Brown Marlene Dietrich as Mademoiselle Amy Jolly Adolphe Menjou as Monsieur La Bessière Ullrich Haupt as Adjutant Caesar Eve Southern as Madame Caesar Francis McDonald as Sergeant Tatoche Paul Porcasi as Lo Tinto Uncredited (in order of appearance) Albert Conti as Colonel Quinnovieres Thomas A. Curran as a nightclub patron Émile Chautard as French General Michael Visaroff as Colonel Alexandre Barratière Juliette Compton as Anna Dolores, a woman who clings to Tom Theresa Harris as a camp follower Background Even before Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel was released to international acclaim in 1930, Paramount Pictures took a keen interest in its new star, Marlene Dietrich. When the Berlin production was completed in January, Sternberg departed Germany before its premiere on April 1, confident his work would be a success. Legend has it that Dietrich included a copy of author Benno Vigny's story Amy Jolly in a going-away gift package to Sternberg when he sailed for America. He and screenwriter Jules Furthman would write a script for Morocco based on the Vigny story. On the basis of test footage Sternberg provided from the yet unreleased The Blue Angel, producer B. P. Schulberg agreed to bring Dietrich to Hollywood in February 1930 under a two-picture contract. When she arrived in the United States, Sternberg welcomed her with gifts, including a green Rolls-Royce Phantom II, which featured in some scenes of Morocco. Dietrich "was subjected to the full power of Paramount's public relations machine", launching her into "international stardom" before American moviegoers had seen her as Lola Lola in The Blue Angel, which appeared in U.S. theaters in 1931. Production The character of Amy was toned down considerably from the novel. As in the book, in