While hiking in the Black Forest with a group of students, the American chemist Ned Faraday (Herbert Marshall) meets the German artist Helen (Marlene Dietrich) and sooner they get married. Years later, living in New York and having a boy, Johnny (Dickie Moore), Ned gets sick, poisoned by twelve years of exposition to radium in his experiments. However, his doctor tells him that In Dresden he would have a chance of healing, but the treatment would cost the fortune of US$ 1,500.00. Helen decides to work in a night-club under the pseudonym of Blonde Venus to raise some money for his travel. When she meets the playboy millionaire Nick Townsend (Cary Grant), she decides to ask for money to have an affair with him. Ned goes to Germany and Helen becomes Nick's mistress. When her cured husband returns fifteen days ahead the schedule, he finds that she had been unfaithful to him. Ned decides to take Johnny from Helen, forcing her to runaway with their son with the police in their tail.
The melodramatic "Blonde Venus" is not a bad movie, with a great performance of Marlene Dietrich. The story of a mother that prostitutes with a millionaire in a post-Depression period to raise money to save the life of her husband is not explicit, based on the moral values of those years, but very clear when she gets US$ 300,00 from Nick after their first encounter. Unfortunately, the moralist and corny conclusion is ridiculous, spoiling the story. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "A Vênus Loira" ("The Blonde Venus")
The melodramatic "Blonde Venus" is not a bad movie, with a great performance of Marlene Dietrich. The story of a mother that prostitutes with a millionaire in a post-Depression period to raise money to save the life of her husband is not explicit, based on the moral values of those years, but very clear when she gets US$ 300,00 from Nick after their first encounter. Unfortunately, the moralist and corny conclusion is ridiculous, spoiling the story. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "A Vênus Loira" ("The Blonde Venus")