A Foreign Affair

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Foreign Affair, 1948.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Foreign Affair, 1948.

Guest host Michael Phillips introduces A Foreign Affair, 1948.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Foreign Affair, 1948.

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Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Foreign Affair, 1948.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Foreign Affair, 1948.

Captain Pringle (John Lund) arrives with gifts for his torch-singer girlfriend Erika (Marlene Dietrich) in her bombed-out hide-out in the American zone in Berlin, in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair, 1948.

Well-lit in a Berlin bar, Iowa congresswoman Frost (Jean Arthur) is persuaded by chanteuse Erika (Marlene Dietrich) that the state song would be just the thing, in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair, 1948.

On a tour of post-war Berlin with Col. Plummer (Millard Mitchell), Congresswoman Frost (Jean Arthur) adopts a name surely invented by director Billy Wilder, as she investigates the habits of American soldiers, in A Foreign Affair, 1948.

The delegation dominated by Congresswoman Frost (Jean Arthur) is received in Berlin by Col. Plummer (Millard Mitchell) and Capt. Pringle (John Lund) in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair, 1948.

From the opening credits, Jean Arthur as "Representative Phoebe Frost" talks some sense into fellow lawmakers flying into post-war Berlin, biting commentary from screenwriter Charles Brackett and director Billy Wilder, in A Foreign Affair, 1948.

A prim Congresswoman (Jean Arthur) gets caught up in the romantic decadence of post-war Germany. Directed by Billy Wilder.