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TITLE...........: Blonde Venus (1932)
STARS...........: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall
DIRECTOR........: Josef von Sternberg
WRITERS.........: Jules Furthman, S.K. Lauren, Josef von Sternberg
GENRE...........: Drama
TOMATOMETER.....: 65/70
IMDB SCORE......: 7.1
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022698
RUNTIME.........: 1h 34mn
SIZE............: 7.38 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 11000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2026-01-21
Josef von Sternberg returned Marlene Dietrich to the stage in Blonde Venus, both a glittering spectacle and a sweeping melodrama about motherly devotion. Unfolding episodically, the film tells the story of Helen (Dietrich), once a German chanteuse, now an American housewife, who resurrects her stage career after her husband (Herbert Marshall) falls ill; she then becomes the mistress of a millionaire (Cary Grant), in a slide from loving martyr to dishonored woman. Despite production difficulties courtesy of the Hays Office, the director’s baroque visual style shines, as do one of the most memorable musical numbers in all of cinema and a parade of visionary costumes by von Sternberg and Dietrich’s longtime collaborator Travis Banton.
Extras
• The Marlene Dietrich Collection
• Interview with historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis
• The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
