Blonde Venus (1932) is the only movie these two screen legends acted in together. They acted well opposite each other, and should have done more together. I personally would have liked to have seen Grant instead of Clive Brook in Shanghai Express (1932). He would have brought more energy to the role, and would have been a more realistic match for Marlene. Is there anyone else who would have liked to have seen more of Marlene and Cary?
shareI really think Cary would bring more to the partnership than Dietrich.
shareI am very glad that the "glamour" series was introduced. Many of the films of dietrich, lombard, and west that are in these collections may never (or rarely) play on television. It is such a treat to see the early ladies of the silver screen act in these movies.
shareDefinitely. Grant and Dietrich are two of my favorite classic movie actors.
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5+ years later - I only have the Dietrich collection and, yes, I'm glad to have 5 films for a pretty low price, it's kind of a frustrating collection. There are 5 films ("Morocco", "Blonde Venus", The Devil is a Woman", and "The Flame of New Orleans" on a single two-sided DVD and "Golden Earrings" on another two-sided DVD with one blank side).
There is so much room for extras (probably room for 4+ hours of additional programming) and there aren't really any. How many documentaries are there of her that could have been added?
I diagree. I found Cary Grant too young to be the opposite to the Dietrich. She is too strong/dominant for him at that stage of his career. She needs a "real man" as opposite, Grant is too boyish (for me a problem in the film). In his later years he established more the nice guy - even more far away from Dietrich.
Please don't misunderstand me: I love both of them. But not together.
Even if i found Clive Brooks play somewhat disturbingly strange, I find they make a better couple and he really is able to overcome her.
I don't think that Cary Grant was necessarily bad in this role, but he was truly secondary to Marlene Dietrich, plus he hadn't found his persona yet--that would come later with Sylvia Scarlett and The Awful Truth.
Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you *exactly* what to do, what to say?!
as actors who each appeared on screen in cross-dressing roles, and as each had the rumor mills perambulating for decades, they might have created quite an interesting "Cabaret"-type charged-but-not-consummated relationship in a film that was never made...
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they had brilliant chemistry in this!When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...