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Marlene Dietrich ft Victor Young's Orchestra - I've Been In Love Before (Decca Records 1939)

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Channel: RoundMidnightTV · 2013 · Music

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"I've Been In Love Before" is a song by Frank Loesser & Frederick Hollander.

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6,1992) was a German-American actress and singer. Dietrich maintained popularity throughout her unusually long show business career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In 1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel (1930), directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame resulting in a contract with Paramount Pictures. Dietrich starred in Hollywood films such as Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932) and Desire (1936). Dietrich successfully traded on her glamorous persona and "exotic" (to Americans) looks, cementing her super-stardom and becoming one of the highest-paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a U.S. citizen in 1939, and throughout the Second World War she was a high-profile frontline entertainer. Although she still made occasional films after the end of the Second World War, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer. Dietrich was noted for her humanitarian efforts during the War, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support, and even advocating for their US citizenship. For her work improving morale on the front lines in WWII, she received honors from the US, France, Belgium, and Israel. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema.

I've been in love before, it's true
Been learning to adore just you
Some old woman taught me how to kiss
To smile like that, to sigh like this

I've been in love before, you'll see
Oh darling, what a bore I'd be
My past that makes you hate me
Makes you love me too
I've been in love before, never knew

And I've been in love before, it's true
Been learning to adore just you
Some old woman taught me how to kiss
To smile like that and sigh like this

I've been in love before, you'll see
Oh darling, what a bore I'd be
My past that makes you hate me
Makes you love me too
I've been in love before, haven't you?

I've been in love before it's true
Been learning to adore just you
Some old woman taught me how to kiss
To smile like that
And sigh like this

I've been in love before you'll see
Oh darling what a bore I'd be
My past that makes you hate me
Makes you love me to
I've been in love before haven't you?

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