Marlene Dietrich and Dickie Moore in Blonde Venus
British postcard, distributed in the Netherlands by M. Bonnist & Zonen, Amsterdam, no, 136e. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still of Marlene Dietrich and Dickie Moore in Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg, 1932).
Marlene Dietrich was the star of Blonde Venus (1932), her fifth cooperation with director Josef von Sternberg. In this melodrama she plays German nightclub singer Helen, who marries an American chemist (Herbert Marshall). Years later her husband becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany. Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. When she meets the playboy millionaire Nick Townsend (Cary Grant), she decides to ask for money to have an affair with him. Ned goes to Germany and Helen becomes Nick's mistress. When her cured husband returns fifteen days ahead the schedule, he finds that she had been unfaithful to him. Ned decides to take their son Johnny (Dickie Moore) from Helen, forcing her to run away with their son with the police in their tail. Highlights of Blonde Venus are Dietrich's wonderful nightclub scenes. The most famous of the one in which she 'stripteases' out of a gorilla suit.
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Marlene Dietrich and Dickie Moore in Blonde Venus
British postcard, distributed in the Netherlands by M. Bonnist & Zonen, Amsterdam, no, 136e. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still of Marlene Dietrich and Dickie Moore in Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg, 1932).
Marlene Dietrich was the star of Blonde Venus (1932), her fifth cooperation with director Josef von Sternberg. In this melodrama she plays German nightclub singer Helen, who marries an American chemist (Herbert Marshall). Years later her husband becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany. Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. When she meets the playboy millionaire Nick Townsend (Cary Grant), she decides to ask for money to have an affair with him. Ned goes to Germany and Helen becomes Nick's mistress. When her cured husband returns fifteen days ahead the schedule, he finds that she had been unfaithful to him. Ned decides to take their son Johnny (Dickie Moore) from Helen, forcing her to run away with their son with the police in their tail. Highlights of Blonde Venus are Dietrich's wonderful nightclub scenes. The most famous of the one in which she 'stripteases' out of a gorilla suit.
Source: IMDb