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16 September 1932 (USA) moreTagline:
From the lips of one MAN to the arms of another! morePlot:
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned... more | add synopsisNewsDesk:
Josef Von Sternberg: Eros And Abstraction—Blonde Venus (1932)(From Twitch. 15 February 2009, 4:27 PM, PST)
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Solid Film Deserves Being On DVD moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Marlene Dietrich | ... | Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones | |
| Herbert Marshall | ... | Edward 'Ned' Faraday | |
| Cary Grant | ... | Nick Townsend | |
| Dickie Moore | ... | Johnny Faraday | |
| Gene Morgan | ... | Ben Smith | |
| Rita La Roy | ... | Taxi Belle Hooper | |
| Robert Emmett O'Connor | ... | Dan O'Connor | |
| Sidney Toler | ... | Det. Wilson | |
| Morgan Wallace | ... | Dr. Pierce | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Clarence Muse | ... | Charlie, the Bartender (unconfirmed) | |
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93 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)Fun Stuff
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Cary Grant said Von Sternberg directed him not really much during the filming, but the director taught him the most important thing. On the first day Grant came on the set, 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. moreQuotes:
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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This was a very interesting story.....one of the best in the early era of sound. The only negative was that even though time passed, nobody - including the 6-year- old boy (Dickie Moore) - aged!
There were a few other things that didn't make sense, either, but the film is so captivating that one can ignore the gaffs and still really enjoy this. Marlene Dietrich, for instance, is mesmerizing at times. She could - except for those stupid 1930s pencil-thin eyebrows - look absolutely stunning. Make no mistake: she's alluring.
All the lead characters in here did their parts well and Moore, who gained fame as one of the "Little Rascals," is particularly endearing.
The adults, however, all have character flaws: a married Dietrich runs off with a wealthy young Cary Grant while her husband (Herbert Marshall) is off in Europe being treated for radium poisoning. Marshall is understandably bitter when he returns to find out what his wife was up to, but is too hard-hearted about letting his wife see the kid. Grant, of course, is an adulterer.
Despite this soap opera premise, the movie almost plays like a film noir, with sharp dialog, great cinematography and tough characters.
This is another great classic film that, for some reason, is still not available on DVD and deserves to be.