Marlene Dietrich the glamour collection.
2006
DVD
In Morocco "the Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission"--IMDb. Blonde Venus depicts "American chemist Ned Faraday marrying a German entertainer and starting 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."--IMDb. Devil is a woman is "a film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone."--IMBd. In Flame of New Orleans "Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker who is her fiance that she is two different women -- a deception made necessary by the arrival of a man acquainted with the swath she cut across Europe" --IMBd. In Golden earrings Ralph Denistoun, of British Intelligence, escapes a German prison with the knowledge of a poison gas formula to be used by the Nazis. In his escape through the woods, he meets Lydia, a Hungarian gypsy, who offers to help him.
Item Details
ISBN: 1417069953
Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 441 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.
Notes:
- Title from disc.
- Morocco originally produced as a motion picture in 1930. Blonde Venus originally produced as a motion picture in 1932. The devil is a woman originally produced as a motion picture in 1935. The flame of New Orleans originally produced as a motion picture in 1941. Golden earrings originally produced as a motion picture in 1947.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1; double-sided.
- "Morocco" from the play "Amy Jolly" by Benno Vigny. "The devil is a woman" from 'The woman and the puppet' by Pierre Louys. "Golden Earrings" from the novel by Yolanda Foldes.
- Special features include theatrical trailer for "Morocco" and "Golden earrings."
- Photography, Lee Garnes, Bert Glennon, Rudy Maté, Daniel l. Fapp, Josef von Sternberg ; editors, Frank Cross, Alma Macrorie ; music, Charles Previn, Victor Young.
- Marlene Dietrich. (Morocco) Cary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou. (Blonde Venus) Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant. (The devil is a woman) Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton. (The flame of New Orleans) Bruce Cabot, Roland Young. (Golden earrings) Ray Milland.
- DVD ; full screen presentations.
- For private home use only.
- In English (2.0 mono) with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Contents:
- Morocco
- Blonde venus
- The devil is a woman
- The flame of New Orleans
- Golden earrings.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 28455
Control Number: 522724
UPC: 025192845529
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2006.Series:
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Other Authors:
- Atwill, Lionel, 1885-1946.
- Butler, Frank, 1890-1967.
- Cabot, Bruce, 1904-1972.
- Clair, René, 1898-1981.
- Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961.
- Deutsch, Helen.
- Dietrich, Marlene.
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
- Foldes, Yolanda, 1903-1963. Golden earrings.
- Furthman, Jules.
- Grant, Cary, 1904-1986.
- Horton, Edward Everett.
- Krasna, Norman.
- Lauren, S. K., 1892-1979.
- Leisen, Mitchell, 1898-1972.
- Louÿs, Pierre, 1870-1925. Femme et le pantin. English.
- Marshall, Herbert, 1890-1966.
- Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963.
- Milland, Ray.
- Paramount Pictures, Inc.
- Pasternak, Joe, 1901-1991.
- Polonsky, Abraham.
- Tugend, Harry, 1898-1989.
- Universal Pictures Company.
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Vigny, Benno, 1889-1965.
- Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969.
- Young, Roland, 1887-1953.
- Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976.