TITLE...........: Blonde Venus (1932) STARS...........: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall DIRECTOR........: Josef von Sternberg WRITERS.........: Jules Furthman, S.K. Lauren, Josef von Sternberg GENRE...........: Drama TOMATOMETER.....: 65/70 IMDB SCORE......: 7.1 IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022698 RUNTIME.........: 1h 34mn SIZE............: 7.38 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 11000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080 ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO...........: English FLAC 1.0 SUBTITLES.......: ENG SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray ENCODE DATE.....: 2026-01-21 Josef von Sternberg returned Marlene Dietrich to the stage in Blonde Venus, both a glittering spectacle and a sweeping melodrama about motherly devotion. Unfolding episodically, the film tells the story of Helen (Dietrich), once a German chanteuse, now an American housewife, who resurrects her stage career after her husband (Herbert Marshall) falls ill; she then becomes the mistress of a millionaire (Cary Grant), in a slide from loving martyr to dishonored woman. Despite production difficulties courtesy of the Hays Office, the director’s baroque visual style shines, as do one of the most memorable musical numbers in all of cinema and a parade of visionary costumes by von Sternberg and Dietrich’s longtime collaborator Travis Banton. Extras • The Marlene Dietrich Collection • Interview with historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis • The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)