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Blonde Venus is a 1932
1932 in film

Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
 starring Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich ; was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself....
 and Cary Grant
Cary Grant

Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
. The movie was produced and directed for Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
 by Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-United States film Film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including cinematography, writer, and film editor....
 with a screenplay
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 by Jules Furthman
Jules Furthman

Jules Furthman was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter.Born in Chicago, Illinois, during World War I he wrote under the name "Stephen Fox." Furthman wrote screenplays for a number of important or popular films, including: The Docks of New York , Thunderbolt , Merely Mary Ann , Shanghai Express ...
 and S. K. Lauren adapted from a story by Furthman and von Sternberg. The music score was by W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Paul Marquardt and Oscar Potoker, and the cinematography by Bert Glennon.

Dietrich performs three musical numbers in this film, including the now-obscure "You Little So-and-So" (music and lyrics by Sam Coslow
Sam Coslow

Sam Coslow was an United States songwriter, singer and film producer. Coslow was born in New York City. He began writing songs as a teenager....
 and Leo Robin
Leo Robin

Leo Robin was an United States composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Academy Award for Best Song-winning song "Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938....
) and "I Couldn't Be Annoyed" (music and lyrics by Leo Robin and Richard A. Whiting
Richard A. Whiting

Richard A. Whiting was a composer of popular music songs.He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California....
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Blonde Venus is a 1932
1932 in film

Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
 starring Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich ; was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself....
 and Cary Grant
Cary Grant

Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
. The movie was produced and directed for Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
 by Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-United States film Film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including cinematography, writer, and film editor....
 with a screenplay
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 by Jules Furthman
Jules Furthman

Jules Furthman was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter.Born in Chicago, Illinois, during World War I he wrote under the name "Stephen Fox." Furthman wrote screenplays for a number of important or popular films, including: The Docks of New York , Thunderbolt , Merely Mary Ann , Shanghai Express ...
 and S. K. Lauren adapted from a story by Furthman and von Sternberg. The music score was by W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Paul Marquardt and Oscar Potoker, and the cinematography by Bert Glennon.

Dietrich performs three musical numbers in this film, including the now-obscure "You Little So-and-So" (music and lyrics by Sam Coslow
Sam Coslow

Sam Coslow was an United States songwriter, singer and film producer. Coslow was born in New York City. He began writing songs as a teenager....
 and Leo Robin
Leo Robin

Leo Robin was an United States composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Academy Award for Best Song-winning song "Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938....
) and "I Couldn't Be Annoyed" (music and lyrics by Leo Robin and Richard A. Whiting
Richard A. Whiting

Richard A. Whiting was a composer of popular music songs.He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California....
). The highlight is perhaps "Hot Voodoo" (music by Ralph Rainger
Ralph Rainger

Ralph Rainger was an United States composer of popular music principally for films....
, lyrics by Sam Coslow), which is nearly 8 minutes long and mostly instrumental, featuring jazz trumpet and drums. Dietrich sings the lyrics toward the end of this sequence, which takes place in a nightclub
Nightclub

A nightclub is a Alcoholic beverage, Dance and entertainment Music venue which does its primary business after dark. People who frequent nightclubs are known as clubbers....
.

This movie predates She Done Him Wrong
She Done Him Wrong

She Done Him Wrong is a Pre-Code 1933 in film Paramount Pictures comedy film/romance film film starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Others in the cast include Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., and Rochelle Hudson....
 by a year even though Mae West
Mae West

Mae West was an United States actor, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the theatre in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the film industry....
 always claimed to have discovered Cary Grant for that film, elaborating that up until then Grant had only made "some tests with starlets."

Plot

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, and must decide which life she truly belongs in.

Cast

  • Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich

    Marlene Dietrich ; was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself....
     - Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
  • Herbert Marshall
    Herbert Marshall

    Herbert Marshall , born Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall, was a popular England cinema and theatre actor.His parents were Percy F. Marshall and Ethel May Turner....
     - Edward 'Ned' Faraday
  • Cary Grant
    Cary Grant

    Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
     - Nick Townsend
  • Dickie Moore
    Dickie Moore (actor)

    Dickie Moore is a former United States child actor. Besides appearing in a number of major feature films, he was featured as a regular in the Our Gang series during the 1932-1933 season....
     - Johnny Faraday
  • Gene Morgan - Ben Smith
  • Rita La Roy - Taxi Belle Hooper
  • Robert Emmett O'Connor - Dan O'Connor
  • Sidney Toler
    Sidney Toler

    Sidney Toler was an United States actor, playwright, and theatre director. Primarily Scottish people ancestry, he was the second non-Asian people actor to play the role of Charlie Chan....
     - Det. Wilson
  • Morgan Wallace - Dr. Pierce
  • Evelyn Preer
    Evelyn Preer

    Eveleyn Preer was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s....
     - Lola


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