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After giving up her dreams of stardom to marry, aspiring actress Helen Faraday (Marlene Dietrich) discovers that her scientist husband, Edward Faraday (Herbert Marshall), is suffering from radium poisoning. In order to raise the cash for a cure Helen finds work as a cabaret hostess, and is romanced by wealthy playboy Nick Townsend (Cary Grant). Nick gives Helen the money for her husband's treatment, and she takes up residence in her new beau's empty mansion - only for her indiscretion to be discovered when Edward recovers more speedily than she expected.
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Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant and Herbert Marshall.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By W. Hamilton
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This is a beautiful transfer of a surprisingly wide-ranging film. The plot-line can be summarised very briefly, but von Sternberg was not a director content with recycling tired images. He has created a visually stunning film, once again. Dietrich is fabulous as mother, performer, mistress, street walker, and mother again. Herbert Marshall's character is well handled by von Sternberg - who often symbolically shoots him in silhouette or hidden in shadows. The supporting cast (including Cary Grant) all contribute full-voltage performances, and the child actor who plays Dietrich and Marshall's son does very well indeed. My expectations for this film were far exceeded. It is a great example of the high cinema craft of the 1930s.
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I've been lured by the five star ratings credited to this film. Marlene is divine as she moves between roles as top billing cabaret act Helen Jones and perfect wife and mother. When husband needs money for life saving medical treatment in Europe, Cary Grant's deep pockets provide the wherewithal. What Marlene does for the $1500 is not made absolutely clear, but whatever it is, she gets some super new frocks. Hubby comes back a week, fully recovered, finds Marlene on the gallivant with Grant. She's obliged to flee with sonny boy, but ends up in skid alley in the deep south, is eventually found by hubby who takes off with the little boy. Dietrich gets back on top of the bill again, this time in Paris, and Cary turns up to see the show and then to carry her back to NYC. From the film we learn what we all know, good women enjoy washing their kids at bedtime and singing a lullaby far more than clubbing at the Ritz.
It's a lovely film, for all its corniness: the quirky dialogue and dated uncomfortable slang make you wince, but it's early days cinema, and you enjoy its innocence - if only I could believe that the lovely girls fall for the slippers and cardigans rather than the tuxedo and wallet.
It's a lovely film, for all its corniness: the quirky dialogue and dated uncomfortable slang make you wince, but it's early days cinema, and you enjoy its innocence - if only I could believe that the lovely girls fall for the slippers and cardigans rather than the tuxedo and wallet.
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Every child should be given the opportunity to see great cinema and to see its origins. Worth concentrating on every moment.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Corny and unbelievable plot even for 1932
I would have awarded fewer stars but that would have been to ignore the fact that this film was made in the era when such escapism was the norm, even when it featured leaps in the... Read more
Published 15 months ago by J. R. Dersley
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Marlene Dietrich is very touching
Director Josef von Sternberg collaborated with Marlene Dietrich to make highly successful movies at the height of depression era when silent movie transitioned to sound movies. Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2009 by Rama Rao
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