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Blonde Venus (1932) 7.2
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 at ... See full summary » Director:Josef von SternbergWriter:S.K. Lauren |
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| Marlene Dietrich | ... |
Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
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Herbert Marshall | ... |
Edward 'Ned' Faraday
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Nick Townsend
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Johnny Faraday
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Gene Morgan | ... |
Ben Smith
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Rita La Roy | ... |
Taxi Belle Hooper
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Robert Emmett O'Connor | ... |
Dan O'Connor
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Detective Wilson
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Morgan Wallace | ... |
Dr. Pierce
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Charlie, the Bartender
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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 at 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? Written by Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
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What could she do but flee from love? She loved two men at once! See more »Genres:
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25 November 1932 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Den blonde Venus See more »Company Credits
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Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones: Helen Faraday.
Ben Smith: Nah, we gotta get something different. Something unusual, something that's easy to say and hard to forget.
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(1894)
Written by Charles Lawlor and James W. Blake
Played as background music during the first scenes of New York
And when Faraday returns to New York
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Uma Thurman performs an homage to Marlene Dietrich's gorilla suit dance in 1997's Batman & Robin. See more »Quotes
Ben Smith: What'd you say your name was?Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones: Helen Faraday.
Ben Smith: Nah, we gotta get something different. Something unusual, something that's easy to say and hard to forget.
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Soundtracks
"Sidewalks of New York"(1894)
Written by Charles Lawlor and James W. Blake
Played as background music during the first scenes of New York
And when Faraday returns to New York
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This is Marlene Dietrich at her best. From reading the reviews here all I can say is there's a whole lot of people in this world who are way too cynical. Marlene Dietrich and Herbert Marshall loved each other in this film, for crying out loud. There is no other way this movie could have or should have ended, without seeming contrived and false. And maybe Marlene Dietrich couldn't sing. So what ? The only actress in cinema movie history who ever rivaled her in sex appeal was Greta Garbo. This is a great movie.