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Blonde Venus

  • 19321932
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 33m
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7.1/10
5.2K
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Blonde Venus (1932)
Drama
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.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
5.2K
YOUR RATING
    • Josef von Sternberg
    • Jules Furthman(by)
    • S.K. Lauren(by)
    • Josef von Sternberg(story)
  • Stars
    • Marlene Dietrich
    • Cary Grant
    • Herbert Marshall
    • Josef von Sternberg
    • Jules Furthman(by)
    • S.K. Lauren(by)
    • Josef von Sternberg(story)
  • Stars
    • Marlene Dietrich
    • Cary Grant
    • Herbert Marshall
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 60User reviews
    • 44Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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  • Photos134

    Marlene Dietrich and Dickie Moore in Blonde Venus (1932)
    "Blonde Venus" Marlene Dietrich 1932/Paramount
    "Blonde Venus" Marlene Dietrich 1932/Paramount
    Marlena Dietrich, BLOND VENUS, Paramount, 1932, **I.V.
    Marlena Dietrich, BLOND VENUS, Paramount, 1932, **I.V.
    "Blonde Venus," Marlene Dietrich. 1932/Paramount
    "Blonde Venus," Marlene Dietrich. 1932/Paramount
    "Blonde Venus," Marlene Dietrich. 1932/Paramount
    Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932)
    Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932)
    Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932)
    Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932)

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    Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich
    • Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
    Cary Grant
    Cary Grant
    • Nick Townsend
    Herbert Marshall
    Herbert Marshall
    • Edward 'Ned' Faraday
    Dickie Moore
    Dickie Moore
    • Johnny Faraday
    Gene Morgan
    Gene Morgan
    • Ben Smith
    Rita La Roy
    Rita La Roy
    • Taxi Belle Hooper
    Robert Emmett O'Connor
    Robert Emmett O'Connor
    • Dan O'Connor
    Sidney Toler
    Sidney Toler
    • Detective Wilson
    Morgan Wallace
    Morgan Wallace
    • Dr. Pierce
    Eric Alden
    Eric Alden
    • Guard
    • (uncredited)
    William Begg
    William Begg
    • Admirer
    • (uncredited)
    Harold Berquist
    • Big Fellow
    • (uncredited)
    Al Bridge
    Al Bridge
    • Bouncer
    • (uncredited)
    Glen Cavender
    Glen Cavender
    • Ship's Officer
    • (uncredited)
    Emile Chautard
    Emile Chautard
    • Chautard, French Nightclub Manager
    • (uncredited)
    Davison Clark
    • Bartender Bringing Two Beers
    • (uncredited)
    Marcelle Corday
    Marcelle Corday
    • Helen's Maid in France
    • (uncredited)
    Cecil Cunningham
    Cecil Cunningham
    • Norfolk Woman Manager
    • (uncredited)
      • Josef von Sternberg
      • Jules Furthman(by) (story)
      • S.K. Lauren(by)
      • Josef von Sternberg(story) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Cary 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.
    • Goofs
      Check 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 credits
      Opening 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 versions
      The 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.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Love Goddesses (1965)
    • Soundtracks
      Treue Liebe Nur du allein
      (uncredited)

      Music by Friedrich Silcher

      Played during opening credits and as background music several times

    User reviews60

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    6/10
    A No Go Back In The Day
    Blonde Venus unfortunately turned out to be the one and only collaboration of Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant. Sad to say though, Grant was not the lead here, just the other man who comes between Marlene and husband Herbert Marshall. There's no real chemistry in this one between any of the principal players and the best scenes are with Marlene and little Dickie Moore playing her son with Marshall.

    The best thing about Blonde Venus are Marlene's musical numbers and they're memorable because of the inimitable way she puts over a song. All Dietrich fans should treasure her Hot Voodoo number where Marlene has a gorilla suit on and does a sexy strip out of that costume and gives us a look at voodoo can do to us.

    But when its not showing Dietrich's legs off and her husky singing, the film is the story of a woman in love with two men. Husband Herbert Marshall is a research scientist who contracts 'radium poisoning' and needs money to go to Europe for a cure. Dietrich gets the money by doing some entertaining in a seedy dive where she comes to the attention of wealthy playboy Cary Grant. From there the plot progresses to the inevitable Hollywood conclusion with a script that was written by Joseph Von Sternberg who directed the film as well.

    Paramount was taking a shot in the dark here with radium poisoning gambit. The plain truth is they didn't know a whole lot about radioactivity then. The discoverer of radium Marie Curie did in fact die of cancer contracted from too much exposure to it. But one didn't just go somewhere for a miracle cure for that sort of thing.

    Herbert Marshall was always playing the injured party it seems in a whole lot of his films. He's well remembered for being Bette Davis's husband in The Little Foxes, a much better film than Blonde Venus. I also remember him in When Ladies Meet where he was cheating on Greer Garson with Joan Crawford and he went through the film with an air of innocence that you would think he was the party offended. Marshall had these roles down pat, but he had more to him in his acting repertoire.

    Even before The Code was put in place Paramount had a lot of trouble with the Hays Office in getting this one exhibited. Some changes were made that no doubt weakened the plot and the story. Marlene is basically in love with two guys at the same time and that was a no go back in the day.

    Blonde Venus didn't do that well at the box office, it was quite a let down from her previous film Shanghai Express. After this one she and Joseph Von Sternberg were separated and she did her next film, Song of Songs with Rouben Mamoulian.

    Blonde Venus is great Dietrich who's asked to carry a weak story.
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    • bkoganbing
    • Jun 5, 2009

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    • Release date
      • September 23, 1932 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • French
      • German
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    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • 1 hour 33 minutes
      • Black and White

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