Blonde Venus
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Writer: Jules Furthman, S.K. Lauren
Producer: Josef von Sternberg
Blonde Venus is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant. It was produced, edited and directed by Josef von Sternberg from a screenplay by Jules Furthman and S. K. Lauren, adapted from a story by Furthman and von Sternberg. The original story "Mother Love" was written by Dietrich herself.
Trivia
- At the time of production, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), formed in 1922, regulated film content.
- The MPPDA reviewed scripts using the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code which, while banning forced prostitution, allowed characters to engage in voluntary solicitation provided that the subject be handled with care.
- During negotiations between director von Sternberg and the MPPDA regarding scenes in which Helen is found by Detective Wilson in New Orleans, references to direct solicitation were removed from the script; in the finished film, the interaction between Helen and the private detective becomes ambiguous.
Previous Showings
7 Runs • 4 Festivals
3,522 tickets sold
All runs on record (7):
- February 14, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ The Scarlet Empress, Dishonored, The Devil Is a Woman
- October 10 - 11, 1990 · 430 ticketsw/ The Devil Is a Woman
- August 13 - 14, 1992 · 738 ticketsw/ This Is the Night
- January 24 - 25, 2002 · 904 ticketsCG2002-1w/ Hot Saturday
- March 29 - 30, 2018 · 422 ticketsParamount Pictures That played at the Stanford Theatre From 1930 to 1935w/ The Scarlet Empress
- July 6 - 7, 2023 · 649 ticketsSummer 2023: The Best of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcockw/ I'm No Angel
- March 20 - 21, 2025 · 379 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ Dishonored