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A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.
Eric Alden
- Guard
- (uncredited)
William Begg
- Admirer
- (uncredited)
Harold Berquist
- Big Fellow
- (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
- Ship's Officer
- (uncredited)
Emile Chautard
- Chautard, French Nightclub Manager
- (uncredited)
Davison Clark
- Bartender Bringing Two Beers
- (uncredited)
Marcelle Corday
- Helen's Maid in France
- (uncredited)
Cecil Cunningham
- Norfolk Woman Manager
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Jules Furthman(uncredited)
- S.K. Lauren
- Josef von Sternberg(uncredited)
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- TriviaCary Grant said that Josef von Sternberg directed him not really much during the filming, but taught him the most important thing. On the first day Grant came on the set, von Sternberg looked at him and said, "Your hair is parted on the wrong side." So Grant parted it on the other side and kept it that way the rest of his career.
- GoofsCheck is shown on screen written to Helen Jones. This is her stage name so not sure how she will cash the check.
- Quotes
Edward 'Ned' Faraday: Dr. Pierce, I have a rather peculiar request to make. I want to sell you my body.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown with a background of water reflected at a swimming hole. As the credits end, we see women swimming in the swimming hole.
- Alternate versionsThe original German release and some television prints of "Blonde Venus" exclude the opening scene, where Herbert Marshall encounters Marlene Dietrich and friends "skinny-dipping" in a lake.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Love Goddesses (1965)
- SoundtracksTreue Liebe Nur du allein
(uncredited)
Music by Friedrich Silcher
Played during opening credits and as background music several times
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Moralist and Corny Melodrama
While hiking in the Black Forest with a group of students, the American chemist Ned Faraday (Herbert Marshall) meets the German artist Helen (Marlene Dietrich) and sooner they get married. Years later, living in New York and having a boy, Johnny (Dickie Moore), Ned gets sick, poisoned by twelve years of exposition to radium in his experiments. However, his doctor tells him that In Dresden he would have a chance of healing, but the treatment would cost the fortune of US$ 1,500.00. Helen decides to work in a night-club under the pseudonym of Blonde Venus to raise some money for his travel. When she meets the playboy millionaire Nick Townsend (Cary Grant), she decides to ask for money to have an affair with him. Ned goes to Germany and Helen becomes Nick's mistress. When her cured husband returns fifteen days ahead the schedule, he finds that she had been unfaithful to him. Ned decides to take Johnny from Helen, forcing her to runaway with their son with the police in their tail.
The melodramatic "Blonde Venus" is not a bad movie, with a great performance of Marlene Dietrich. The story of a mother that prostitutes with a millionaire in a post-Depression period to raise money to save the life of her husband is not explicit, based on the moral values of those years, but very clear when she gets US$ 300,00 from Nick after their first encounter. Unfortunately, the moralist and corny conclusion is ridiculous, spoiling the story. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "A Vênus Loira" ("The Blonde Venus")
The melodramatic "Blonde Venus" is not a bad movie, with a great performance of Marlene Dietrich. The story of a mother that prostitutes with a millionaire in a post-Depression period to raise money to save the life of her husband is not explicit, based on the moral values of those years, but very clear when she gets US$ 300,00 from Nick after their first encounter. Unfortunately, the moralist and corny conclusion is ridiculous, spoiling the story. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "A Vênus Loira" ("The Blonde Venus")
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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