Blonde Venus Movie Review 1932

A German cafe singer marries an Englishman, but their marriage hits the skids when he contracts radiation poisoning and she gets a nightclub job to pay the bills. Sternberg's and Dietrich's fourth film together, and characteristically beautiful, though terribly strange. Dietrich's cabaret number "Hot Voodoo," in a gorilla suit and blonde afro, attains new heights in early Hollywood surrealism.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 94 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Musical Drama, Director/Star Teams: von Sternberg & Dietrich, Marriage

Cast

Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Toler

Director

Josef von Sternberg

Producer

Paramount Pictures