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Blonde Venus Details

1932

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Starring	Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant
Director	Josef Von Sternberg, Josef von Sternberg
Genres	Drama

Blonde Venus

American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance of being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend. While Ned is away in Europe, she continues with Nick but when Ned returns cured, he discovers her infidelity. Now Ned despises Helen but she grabs son Johnny and lives on the run, just one step ahead of the Missing Persons Bureau. When they do finally catch her, she loses her son to Ned. Once again she returns to entertaining, this time in Paris, and her fame once again brings her and Townsend together. Helen and Nick return to America engaged, but she is irresistibly drawn back to her son and Ned. In which life does she truly belong?

Starring	Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant
Director	Josef Von Sternberg, Josef von Sternberg
Studio	UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English, German, French
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: French, German, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Swedish
Released	Production year: 1932 To Rent: DVD: 09 Oct 2006

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- With characteristic exaggeration, Sternberg himself wrote off Blonde Venus as a disaster. He made it (under protest) in... read more on Time Out
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  No one has ever looked lovelier destitiute than Dietrich.
  
  I loved this film. I have only watched Dietrich in Blue Angel, Destry Rides Again and Morocco and was so impressed by her I decided to ... read more »
  
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  Sadly it's a dull film
  
  Firstly lets state that I am not a stupid reviewer who writes something off cos it's B&W or subtitled. I love old films and am working my way through ... read more »
  
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  I've been lured by the five star ratings credited to this film. Marlene is divine as she moves between roles as top billing cabaret act Helen Jones and ... read more »
  
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  The script is awful which make the acting seem even more wooden. Very disappointing. Turned it off.
  
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  American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance of being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the ...