Lili Marleen (film) Lili Marleen (film) Lili Marleen is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Hanna Schygulla. The screenplay was produced using the autobiographical novel "Der Himmel hat viele Farben" ("The Heavens Have Many Colors") by Lale Andersen. However, according to Lale Andersen's last husband, Arthur Beul, the film's plot bore little relation to her real life. The film is set during the Third Reich and is about the forbidden love between the German singer Willie (Hanna Schygulla) and the Swiss Jewish composer Robert Mendelssohn (a character based on Rolf Liebermann), who actively seeks to help
Mel Ferrer Mexico to work on a novel, "Tito's Hat" published in 1940. Ferrer was contracted to Columbia Pictures as a director along with several other "potentials" who began as dialogue directors: Fred Sears, William Castle, Henry Levin and Robert Gordon. Among the films he worked on were "Louisiana Hayride" (1944), "They Live in Fear" (1944), "Sergeant Mike" (1944), "Together Again" (1944), "Meet Miss Bobby Socks" (1944), "Let's Go Steady" (1944), "Ten Cents a Dance" (1945), and "A Thousand and One Nights" (1945). Some of these were Bs but others – such as 'Thousand and One Nights" – were more prestigious. Ferrer