Blonde Venus ( Eng. Blonde Venus ) is a dramatic feature film by Hollywood director Joseph von Sternberg , directed in 1932. Marlene Dietrich , Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant starred.
| Blonde Venus | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Joseph von Sternberg |
| Producer | Joseph von Sternberg |
| Author script | S.K. Lauren Joseph von Sternberg |
| In the main cast | Marlene Dietrich Herbert Marshall Cary grant |
| Operator | |
| Composer | John laypold V. Franke Harling Poker Oscar |
| Film company | Paramount pictures |
| Duration | |
| A country |  USA |
| Tongue | English Deutsch |
| Year | 1932 |
| IMDb | ID 0022698 |
Content
Story
American chemist Ned Faraday ( Herbert Marshall ) and his wife, variety singer Helen Faraday ( Marlene Dietrich ) have lived together for many years. They have a little son Johnny ( Dickie Moore ). Once during the experiments, Ned is irradiated with radium and now the main task for the family is to collect money for his treatment. Helen is forced to get a job in one of the night cabarets of the city. During one of her speeches, she meets Nick Townsend ( Cary Grant ) - a fairly wealthy person. He offers her his help, to which Helen is forced to agree. Ned is leaving for Europe for treatment. Upon arrival, he learns about the existence of another man in the life of Helen. He chases her away and wants to take little Johnny away from her. But Helen doesn't give up. She takes with her little Johnny and for a long time hides from the police and from her ungrateful husband.
Cast
- Marlene Dietrich - Helen Faraday
- Herbert Marshall - Ned Faraday
- Cary Grant - Nick Townsend
- Dickie Moore - Johnny Faraday
- Gene Morgan - Ben Smith
- Rita La Roy - Taxi-Bel Hooper
- Sterling Holloway - Joe, Traveler (Uncredited)
Creation
Unwittingly, Sternberg appeared as one of the first feminists of American cinema. The film’s critics of the disenfranchised position of women in American society scared the leadership of Paramount, and they demanded that the director change the ending. Sternberg resisted as best he could, but the producers won. In the director's version, Helen refuses to have a son; in the rental version, a little boy reconciles his parents, telling the story of their acquaintance and joining their hands in an innocent voice [1] .
In 1934, under pressure from the Society of Virtuous Catholics (UEC), Hayes employees had to work with UDC representative Martin Quigley to create new, more stringent than the 1930 Rules for the production of film production. The new Rules included the “compensation of moral values” invented by the head of the Administration for monitoring the observance of the film production rules of Joe Breen: in any film there must be demonstrated “good enough to compensate for any evil depicted in it”. When the new rules came into force on July 11, 1934, the “Blonde Venus” picture was awarded a “Class I” and removed it from hire. Bryn stated that the picture in the original version will not see the light anymore.
- Don B. Souva [2]
Notes
- ↑ G. Krasnov. Encyclopedia of US Cinema. Films / Editorial Board: A.N. Doroshevich, G.V. Krasnov, M.L. Terakopyan. - Moscow: Mainland, 2007. - p. 19. - 279 p. - ISBN 5-85646-160-6 .
- ↑ Don B. Souva. Blond Venus // 125 Forbidden Movies: The Censorial History of World Cinema = Forbidden Films: Censorship Histories Of 125 Motion Pictures / Trans. from English Irina Taranova. - 1st. - Yekaterinburg: Ultra . Culture , 2008. - 512 p. - 3000 copies - ISBN 978-5-9681-0121-1 .