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 cur... (Full plot summary below)
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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?
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| Radio TimesDavid OppedisanoYou'll not see many films superior to this in their use of visual detail, tempo, humour and double-edged significance. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouLeo Goldsmithvon Sternberg puts forth a typically probing analysis of gender and exploitation that's uncomfortably close to home. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonSudsy, but where else will you see Dietrich singing "Hot Voodoo" while initially wearing a gorilla costume and then a white afro? |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrEven Josef von Sternberg had his off days. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickits framing of conventional melodramatic narrative beats with excessive visual style doesn't always work, making it feel at times like a fractured work, one with two personalities working against each other. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonAtmospheric and visually stimulating but Josef von Sternberg's morality tale is a little thin. |
| User ReviewCharlie Kdid you ever happen to hear of voodoo!!!!! |
| User ReviewSuellen PA very inetersting movie and Marlene is so beautiful...OMG. One of her best. |
| User ReviewStella WPre-Code Dietrich is as good as it gets. She's got a child in this one, but the movie doesn't suffer or become saccharine because of it. Going from destitute to the toast of Paris in a very short time is hard to buy, but other than that this is life, this is the real stuff. Von Sternberg was a genius. |
| User ReviewMichael DA Wonderfully directed movie. Some may be turned away by it's over dramatic and, at times, predicable nature. Wonderful imagery and imaginative light work. A universally photogenic film. My personal favorite from Sternberg. |
