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Title: Blonde Venus (1932)
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| 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 | ... | Detective Wilson | |
| Morgan Wallace | ... | Dr. Pierce | |
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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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gorilla costume | cabaret singer | radiation poisoning | ill husband | dysfunctional marriage |Taglines:
From the lips of one MAN to the arms of another! See more »Genres:
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Written by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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Fifth in the seven films Dietrich and von Sternberg made together. See more »Goofs
Check is shown on screen written to Helen Jones. This is her stage name so not sure how she will cash the check. See more »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. See more »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. See more »Connections
Referenced in Best of the Worst: Ghetto Blaster, Terror in Beverly Hills, and Killing American Style (2014) See more »Soundtracks
Symphony No. 3 'Scottish'(uncredited)
Written by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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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.