I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (German: Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame) is a 1929 sound German drama film directed by Robert Land starring Harry Liedtke and Marlene Dietrich. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. [1] It was released in the United States in 1932. It was produced by Super-Film.
Madame Gerard is a divorcee living the high life in Paris. Her current lover is the overweight Percy Talandier but then she meets Count Lerski and sets her sights on him. Then she hears from her ex-husband Adolphe that Lerski is not a count, but works as a waiter.
The theme song was entitled "Ich Küsse Ihre Hand Madame" with music by Ralph Erwin and lyrics by Fritz Rotter. The tenor Richard Tauber is heard on the soundtrack singing the theme song. The song became a world-wide hit for that year and was translated and recorded in dozens of languages. The English version was known as "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame."
