Blonde Venus 1932 123movies

Watch: Blonde Venus 1932 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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?.
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.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 5,137
	63% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 96 Popularity: 6.449 | TMDB

Reviews:

It’s mesmerizing to watch von Sternberg and Dietrich at work in this melodrama, and fun to watch both her and Cary Grant in early roles before they became household names and cinematic legends. One can’t help but sense the parallel between this story (Helen giving up her family to be a star) and her real life, as von Sternberg told her to give up her family and life in Germany as he would take her to America and make her a star.

Definitely one of Marlene Dietrich’s more sensitive and powerful – though not sentimental – performances as a wife and mother whose husband (Herbert Marshall) becomes ill with Radium poisoning. Faced with mounting bills for his expensive treatment in Germany, she returns to her previous work as a cabaret singer and is soon involved with millionaire “Nick Townsend” (Cary Grant). Marshall is heartbroken to discover her infidelity and there ensues a sort of cat-and-mouse game as she and her son flee and try to stay one step ahead of her chasing husband and authorities. The three principals deliver strong performances and who will ever forget “Hot Voodoo” performed in the gorilla costume? The son (Dickie Moore) is quite cute and albeit briefly, contributes to the tensions later in the film quite convincingly. Allegedly, the censors had a field day with this but what is left still flows well under Von Sternberg’s able, if not exactly flamboyant, direction.

A No Go Back In The Day
Blonde Venus unfortunately turned out to be the one and only collaboration of Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant. Sad to say though, Grant was not the lead here, just the other man who comes between Marlene and husband Herbert Marshall. There’s no real chemistry in this one between any of the principal players and the best scenes are with Marlene and little Dickie Moore playing her son with Marshall.

The best thing about Blonde Venus are Marlene’s musical numbers and they’re memorable because of the inimitable way she puts over a song. All Dietrich fans should treasure her Hot Voodoo number where Marlene has a gorilla suit on and does a sexy strip out of that costume and gives us a look at voodoo can do to us.

But when its not showing Dietrich’s legs off and her husky singing, the film is the story of a woman in love with two men. Husband Herbert Marshall is a research scientist who contracts ‘radium poisoning’ and needs money to go to Europe for a cure. Dietrich gets the money by doing some entertaining in a seedy dive where she comes to the attention of wealthy playboy Cary Grant. From there the plot progresses to the inevitable Hollywood conclusion with a script that was written by Joseph Von Sternberg who directed the film as well.

Paramount was taking a shot in the dark here with radium poisoning gambit. The plain truth is they didn’t know a whole lot about radioactivity then. The discoverer of radium Marie Curie did in fact die of cancer contracted from too much exposure to it. But one didn’t just go somewhere for a miracle cure for that sort of thing.

Herbert Marshall was always playing the injured party it seems in a whole lot of his films. He’s well remembered for being Bette Davis’s husband in The Little Foxes, a much better film than Blonde Venus. I also remember him in When Ladies Meet where he was cheating on Greer Garson with Joan Crawford and he went through the film with an air of innocence that you would think he was the party offended. Marshall had these roles down pat, but he had more to him in his acting repertoire.

Even before The Code was put in place Paramount had a lot of trouble with the Hays Office in getting this one exhibited. Some changes were made that no doubt weakened the plot and the story. Marlene is basically in love with two guys at the same time and that was a no go back in the day.

Blonde Venus didn’t do that well at the box office, it was quite a let down from her previous film Shanghai Express. After this one she and Joseph Von Sternberg were separated and she did her next film, Song of Songs with Rouben Mamoulian.

Blonde Venus is great Dietrich who’s asked to carry a weak story.

Soap without Sud
The story is a typical soap story – A cabaret artist falls in love and marries a poor but brilliant chemist and settles in a purely domestic life and has a small child when tragedy strikes- the husband is diagnosed with Radium Poisoning (Curie Family !) but unlike Curies, he is curable – but needs money. The wife goes back to stage and becomes a celebrity – and along comes a playboy with a string attached. To save the husband she volunteers in his net, but gets more than she bargained for. She now has a soft spot for the playboy while the playboy is in genuine love with her, the husband is cured, and that, when he comes to know, through entirely believable circumstances, of her affair, is hell-bent on taking away her only love from her, the child. She runs from place to place, sinking deeper, while the husband hounds her. In the end she gives the child up and after some time, decides to go back to stage becomes a celebrity. The heartbroken playboy lover (who had left the country when she went back to husband and was not able to do anything) catches up and now she has to decide between the two – husband and lover – both seem to have equal space in her heart. A pure soap story – and it is a real marvel that it was handles so well, that it would be wrong to name it soap. I think that is because instead of tear-jerking, it kept the audience bound by pace.

What I didn’t like is the ending – not her decision, it was natural – but the only guilty party in the story didn’t seem to be aware of the unforgivable guilt – it seemed more of a forgiving… whereas it should have been sought from. One would thoroughly sympathise with what Helen did, it was all justified, considering the driving cause.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min), 1 hr 25 min (85 min) (video: cut) (West Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Jules Furthman, S.K. Lauren, Josef von Sternberg
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,500 m (10 reels) (UK)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm