Darling Lili
“She gave away secrets to one side and her heart to the other.”
World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half German and is an undercover German spy, using her feminine wiles to gather information from the high ranking and generally older military officers and diplomats she seduces.
Genres
Music, War, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Darling Lili performed
Budget
$25.0M
Worldwide Gross
$3.3M
Gross Profit
−$21.8M
Return
0.1× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$512K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Music) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Lili Smith
Julie Andrews
Lili Smith
Major William Larrabee
Rock Hudson
Major William Larrabee
Colonel Kurt Von Ruger
Jeremy Kemp
Colonel Kurt Von Ruger
T.C. Carstairs
Lance Percival
T.C. Carstairs
Lt. George Youngblood Carson
Michael Witney
Lt. George Youngblood Carson
Crepe Suzette
Gloria Paul
Crepe Suzette
Major Duvalle
Jacques Marin
Major Duvalle
Lt. Liggett
André Maranne
Lt. Liggett
Bedford
Bernard Kay
Bedford
Emma
Doreen Keogh
Emma
General Kessler
Carl Duering
General Kessler
Otto Kraus
Vernon Dobtcheff
Otto Kraus
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