The Spirit (film) song was originally sung and popularized by Marlene Dietrich in the film "The Blue Angel" (1930) and has been covered by Billie Holiday (1940), Doris Day (1961), and Sammy Davis Jr. (1962). The trailers for the film feature music from the "I Choose Noise" album by Hybrid. Soundtrack track list: At the New York Comic Con on February 24, 2007, director-screenwriter Frank Miller and producer Michael Uslan were scheduled to present a panel for "The Spirit", though Miller was unable to attend due to recuperation from hip and leg injuries. Instead, Uslan, fellow producer F.J. DeSanto, and former "The Spirit"
Marlene Dietrich worked without Sternberg for the first time in three years in the romantic drama "Song of Songs" (1933), playing a naive German peasant, under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian. Dietrich and Sternberg's last two films, "The Scarlet Empress" (1934), and "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935)—the most stylized of their collaborations—were their lowest-grossing films. Dietrich later remarked that she was at her most beautiful in "The Devil Is a Woman". Sternberg is noted for his exceptional skill in lighting and photographing Dietrich to optimum effect. He had a signature use of light and shadow, including the impact of light passed