Marlene Dietrich Collection - 12-DVD Box Set ( Blonde Venus / Dishonored / The Flame of New Orleans / Follow the Boys (Three Cheers for the Boys) / Golden Earrings / Morocco (Amy Jolly) / Pittsburgh ) ( The Scarlet Empress (Catherine the Great) / Seven Sinners (7 Sinners) / The Devil Is a Woman (Carnival in Spain) / The Song of Songs / Marlene )

Marlene Dietrich Collection - 12-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Blonde Venus / Dishonored / The Flame of New Orleans / Follow the Boys (Three Cheers for the Boys) / Golden Earrings / Morocco (Amy Jolly) / Pittsburgh
Alternate Title: The Scarlet Empress (Catherine the Great) / Seven Sinners (7 Sinners) / The Devil Is a Woman (Carnival in Spain) / The Song of Songs / Marlene
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1080 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1930 - 1947 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Josef von Sternberg
René Clair
A. Edward Sutherland
Mitchell Leisen
Lewis Seiler
Tay Garnett
Rouben Mamoulian
Joseph Vilsmaier

Written By:
Jules Furthman
S.K. Lauren
Daniel Nathan Rubin
Josef von Sternberg
Norman Krasna
Lou Breslow
Gertrude Purcell
Abraham Polonsky
Frank Butler
Benno Vigny
Kenneth Gamet
George Owen
Catherine II
Manuel Komroff
John Meehan
Harry Tugend
Pierre Louÿs
John Dos Passos
Hermann Sudermann
Edward Sheldon
Christian Pfannenschmidt

Actors:
Marlene Dietrich ..... Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
Herbert Marshall ..... Edward 'Ned' Faraday
Cary Grant ..... Nick Townsend
Dickie Moore ..... Johnny Faraday
Gene Morgan ..... Ben Smith
Rita La Roy ..... Taxi Belle Hooper
Robert Emmett O'Connor ..... Dan O'Connor
Sidney Toler ..... Detective Wilson
Morgan Wallace ..... Dr. Pierce
Clarence Muse ..... Charlie, the Bartender
Marlene Dietrich ..... Marie Kolverer / X27
Victor McLaglen ..... Colonel Kranau
Gustav von Seyffertitz ..... Austrian Secret Service Chief
Warner Oland ..... Colonel von Hindau
Lew Cody ..... Colonel Kovrin
Barry Norton ..... Young Lieutenant - Firing Squad
Marlene Dietrich ..... Countess Claire Ledoux, aka Lili
Bruce Cabot ..... Robert Latour
Roland Young ..... Charles Giraud
Mischa Auer ..... Zolotov
Andy Devine ..... Andrew, The First Sailor
Frank Jenks ..... Second Sailor
Eddie Quillan ..... Third Sailor
Laura Hope Crews ..... Auntie
Franklin Pangborn ..... Bellows
Theresa Harris ..... Clementine, Claire's Maid
Clarence Muse ..... Samuel, Carriage Driver
Melville Cooper ..... Brother-in-Law
Anne Revere ..... Giraud's Sister
Bob Evans ..... William
Emily Fitzroy ..... Giraud's Cousin Amelia
George Raft ..... Tony West
Vera Zorina ..... Gloria Vance
Jeanette MacDonald ..... Herself - Guest Star
Orson Wells' Mercury Wonder Show ..... Themselves - Guest Stars
Marlene Dietrich ..... Herself - Guest Star
Dinah Shore ..... Herself - Guest Star
Donald O'Connor ..... Himself - Guest Star
Peggy Ryan ..... Herself - Guest Star
W.C. Fields ..... Himself - Guest Star
The Andrews Sisters ..... Themselves - Guest Stars
Artur Rubinstein ..... Himself - Guest Star
Carmen Amaya and Her Company ..... Themselves - Guest Stars
Sophie Tucker ..... Herself - Guest Star
Delta Rhythm Boys ..... Themselves - Guest Stars
Leonard Gautier's Bricklayers ..... Themselves - Guest Stars
Ray Milland ..... Col. Ralph Denistoun
Marlene Dietrich ..... Lydia
Murvyn Vye ..... Zoltan
Bruce Lester ..... Richard Byrd
Dennis Hoey ..... Hoff
Quentin Reynolds ..... Himself - American Journalist
Reinhold Schünzel ..... Prof. Otto Krosigk
Ivan Triesault ..... Maj. Reimann
Hermine Sterler ..... Greta Krosigk
Gary Cooper ..... Légionnaire Tom Brown
Marlene Dietrich ..... Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
Adolphe Menjou ..... Monsieur La Bessiere
Ullrich Haupt ..... Adjutant Caesar
Eve Southern ..... Madame Caesar
Francis McDonald ..... A Sergeant
Paul Porcasi ..... Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner
Marlene Dietrich ..... Josie 'Hunky' Winters
Randolph Scott ..... John 'Cash' Evans
John Wayne ..... Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham
Charles Ellis ..... J.M. 'Doc' Powers
Frank Craven ..... Shannon Prentiss (Markham)
Louise Allbritton ..... Shorty (the tailor)
Shemp Howard ..... Joe Malneck (miners union president)
Thomas Gomez ..... Dr. Grazlich (Doc Powers' partner)
Ludwig Stössel ..... Morgan Prestiss (president, Prentiss Steel)
Samuel S. Hinds ..... Burnside (mine operator)
Paul Fix ..... Johnny (miner)
William Haade ..... Mike (Markham's Butler)
Charles Coleman ..... Barney, Cafe Proprietor
Nestor Paiva
Marlene Dietrich ..... Princess Sophia Frederica /
Catherine II ..... Count Alexei
John Lodge ..... Grand Duke Peter
Sam Jaffe ..... Empress Elizabeth Petrovna
Louise Dresser ..... Prince August
C. Aubrey Smith ..... Capt. Gregori Orloff
Gavin Gordon ..... Princess Johanna Elizabeth
Olive Tell ..... Countess Elizabeth 'Lizzie'
Ruthelma Stevens ..... Archimandrite Simeon Todorsky
Davison Clark ..... Chancelor Alexei Bestuchef
Erville Alderson ..... Count Lestoq
Philip Sleeman ..... Marie Tshoglokof
Marie Wells ..... Ivan Shuvolov
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski ..... Lt. Dmitri
Gerald Fielding ..... Sophia as a Child
Maria Riva
Marlene Dietrich ..... Bijou Blanche
John Wayne ..... Lt. Dan Brent
Albert Dekker ..... Dr. Martin
Broderick Crawford ..... Edward Patrick 'Little Ned' Finnegan
Anna Lee ..... Dorothy Henderson
Mischa Auer ..... Sasha Mencken
Billy Gilbert ..... Tony
Richard Carle ..... District Officer
Samuel S. Hinds ..... Gov. Harvey Henderson
Oskar Homolka ..... Antro
Reginald Denny ..... Capt. Church
Vince Barnett ..... Bartender
Herbert Rawlinson ..... First Mate
James Craig ..... Ensign
William Bakewell ..... Ens. Judson
Marlene Dietrich ..... Concha Perez
Lionel Atwill ..... Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
Edward Everett Horton ..... Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
Alison Skipworth ..... Senora Perez
Cesar Romero ..... Antonio Galvan
Don Alvarado ..... Morenito
Tempe Pigott ..... Tuerta
Francisco Moreno ..... Alphonso
Hank Mann ..... Foreman on Snowbound Train
Marlene Dietrich ..... Lily Czepanek
Brian Aherne ..... Richard Waldow
Lionel Atwill ..... Baron von Merzbach
Alison Skipworth ..... Mrs. Rasmussen
Hardie Albright ..... Walter Von Prell
Helen Freeman ..... Fräulein Von Schwertfeger
Katja Flint ..... Marlene Dietrich
Herbert Knaup ..... Rudolf Sieber
Heino Ferch ..... Carl Seidlitz
Hans Werner Meyer ..... Josef von Sternberg
Christiane Paul ..... Tamara Matul
Suzanne von Borsody ..... Charlotte Seidlitz
Armin Rohde ..... Emil Jannings
Josefina Vilsmaier ..... Maria 6-jährig
Theresa Vilsmaier ..... Maria 10-jährig
Janina Vilsmaier ..... Maria 13-jährig
Monica Bleibtreu ..... Witwe von Losch
Cosma Shiva Hagen ..... Resi
Katharina Müller-Elmau ..... Margo Lion
Oliver Elias ..... Jossi Winter
Sandy Martin ..... Louella Parsons

Synopsis:

Dishonored (1931) The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
Golden Earrings (1947) On the eve of WWII, English officer Ralph Denistoun is in Nazi Germany on an espionage mission...
The Flame of New Orleans (1941) In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
The Song of Songs (1933) Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street.
The Devil Is a Woman (1935) Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone.
The Scarlet Empress (1934) Story of Sophia Frederica who is brought from Germany to Russia to become the wife of the mad Grand Duke Peter.
Seven Sinners (1940) Cabaret singer Bijou, ejected from several Indian Ocean islands for inciting riots, lands on Boni Komba at the Seven Sinners Cafe.
Morocco (1930) 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.
Pittsburgh (1942) Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry...
Blonde Venus (1932) Helen Faraday is a nightclub singer turned housewife.
Follow the Boys (1944) Hollywood's Biggest Stars Come Together For A Great Cause!
Marlene (2000)***German audio only***The movie follows the life and personality of the famous actress Marlene Dietrich.

Dishonored (1931)
Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise. Marlene Dietrich delivers a subtle and witty performance as a Viennese prostitute who offers her services as a spy during WWI. As ''Agent X-27'' our heroine proves invaluable to her superiors, seducing and betraying enemy officers with the greatest of ease. But when she falls in love with Russian spy Lt. Kranau (Victor McLaglen), she permits him to escape her clutches, and as a consequence is sentenced to be executed. Ever the mistress of her own fate, ''X-27'' stands proud and tall before the firing squad, even comforting the officer in charge (Barry Norton) who can't bring himself to shoot a woman. The scenes between Dietrich and bemedalled general Warner Oland are in themselves worthy of the admission price; equally as entertaining is the brief sequence in which the jaded heroine disguises herself as a zaftig peasant girl.

Golden Earrings (1947)
On a Paris bound airplane in 1945, Colonel Ralph Denistoun, of British Intelligence, is being interviewed by American correspondent Quentin Reynolds. His story begins in Germany in 1939, before war had been officially declared, but he and fellow agent Richard Byrd, stationed in Germany, are being held prisoner, incommunicado, because of their knowledge of a deadly poison gas formula perfected by Professor Krosigk for the Nazi war machine. Escaping, Denistoun and Byrd go separate ways, agreeing to meet later at a Freiburgn sign post on the road near Eschbach. Denistoun is making his way through the woods when he meets Lydia, a Hungarian gypsy girl, who offers to help him. She pierces his ears for dazzling golden earrings, stains his skin, dresses him in Zigeneur clothes and teaches him to read palms. His disguise if perfect and he emerges unharmed from several encounters with Nazi patrols. Byrd is killed by the Gestapo, leaving Denistoun on his own to contact Krosigk, a violent anti-Nazi, who gives the Britisher the secret of the poison gas. Aided by Lydia and Zoltan, the gypsy leader, Denistoun escapes from Germany across the Rhine to France, with a promise to return to Lydia after the war.

The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Acclaimed French filmmaker Rene Clair made his American debut with this period comedy/drama. Claire Ledeux (Marlene Dietrich) leaves her native France and arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1841, with one goal in mind: marrying a wealthy man. Posing as a pillar of society and a woman of means, Claire sets her sights on Charles Giraud (Roland Young), who is good looking and rich, but she soon discovers that ship captain Robert Latour (Bruce Cabot) is also vying for her hand. However, when Zoltov (Mischa Auer), who knew Claire from the old country, starts dropping heavy hints about her scandalous reputation in Europe, Claire tries to convince everyone that he's really talking about her cousin, even going so far as to disguise herself as the phantom cousin to add weight to her ruse. Three Stooges fans should keep an eye peeled for a brief appearance by Shemp Howard, who plays a waiter; Andy Devine, Franklin Pangborn, and Clarence Muse also appear in the supporting cast.

The Song of Songs (1933)
Song of Songs was the first Marlene Dietrich vehicle not directed by Dietrich's ''Svengali,'' Josef von Sternberg. The star plays a zaftig German peasant girl who becomes a nude model (anything to get her out of those ill-fitting 1890s costumes!) She falls in love with a struggling sculptor (Brian Aherne), but her ambitions get the better of her and she marries a hedonistic baron (Lionel Atwill). Leaving her husband, Dietrich sinks further down the social scale by becoming a cabaret singer. She is eventually reunited with the sculptor, but not before smashing the nude statue based on her voluptuous frame, thereby symbolically purging her checkered past. Song of Songs was based on a Herman Sudermann novel, previously adapted into a stage play and then filmed twice during the silent era.

The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this historical melodrama, which was a notorious and controversial box-office flop in its day. Antonio Galvan (Cesar Romero), a young military officer, meets a mysterious and alluring woman named Concha Perez (Dietrich) and soon falls under her seductive spell. Antonio excitedly confesses his love for Concha to his friend Don Pasqual (Lionel Atwill), an older and higher-ranking officer. Pasqual is horrified when he learns of Antonio's infatuation; years ago, he met Concha, and it was the start of a long and disastrous relationship in which the cold-hearted woman would repeatedly lure him into her romantic web, drain him of his wealth, and then leave him for wealthier prospects elsewhere. While he has learned the hard way, Pasqual has never been able to cure himself of his addiction to Concha's charms, and when he encounters Concha with Antonio at a boisterous street festival, Pasqual is overcome with jealousy and challenges Antonio to a duel for Concha's affections. Shortly after The Devil Is a Woman's unsuccessful initial release, the United States State Department and the Spanish government both tendered objections to Paramount Pictures about what they felt were insulting depictions of the Spanish people and their leadership. Paramount pulled the film from circulation, and it was thought to be lost for some time until Dietrich provided a print from her personal collection for a Sternberg retrospective in 1959; the movie has since been released on home video. John Dos Passos co-authored the screenplay, based on a novel by Pierre Louys which Luis Bunuel later adapted as That Obscure Object of Desire.

The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Young Princess Sophia of Germany is taken to Russia to marry the half-wit Grand Duke Peter, son of the Empress. The domineering Empress hopes to improve the royal blood line. Sophia doesn't like her husband, but she likes Russia, and is very fond of Russian soldiers. She dutifully produces a son -- of questionable fatherhood, but no one seems to mind that. After the old empress dies, Sophia engineers a coup d'etat with the aid of the military, does away with Peter, and becomes Catherine the Great.

Seven Sinners (1940)
Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for insighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes very popular with U.S. navymen by performing at the 'Seven Sinners'. A navy Lieutenant is attracted to Bijou despite the Governor's machinations to keep them apart, and the competing affections of local mobster, Antro. Will the Lieutenant give up the navy for Bijou, and will he survive Antro's forces?

Morocco (1930)
Parisian chanteuse Amy Jolly has just arrived in Morocco to work in a nightclub. At the club, her scandalous behavior attracts the attention of many in the crowd, but most specifically the womanizing Legionnaire Tom Brown, and the wealthy Monsieur La Bessiere, who Amy previously met en route to Morocco. Tom and Amy quickly fall in love, but Tom questions whether she is in love with him, he believing that she is really in love with La Bessiere's money. So instead of deserting the Legion and running off with Amy as they had discussed, Tom is called off into battle with both he and Amy never knowing if they will see each other again. While Tom is away, La Bessiere hopes to prove that Tom is correct as La Bessiere, who is also in love with Amy and will do anything for her, tries to woo her.

Pittsburgh (1942)
The three stars of Universal's The Spoilers - Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne and Randolph Scott -- were reunited for the pageantlike adventure yarn Pittsburgh. As indicated by the title, this is a saga of the steel industry, with longtime buddies Pittsburgh Markham (Wayne) and Cash Evans (Scott) rising from the ranks of miners to run their own foundry. Ruthlessly devoted to his work, Pittsburgh eventually has a falling out with Cash and also jeopardizes his romantic relationship with beautiful Josie Winters (Dietrich). Thanks to his duplicitous business practices, Pittsburgh loses both Josie and his steel mill; but when America enters WW II, he redeems himself by signing on as a common workman with Cash's still-thriving organization. Well acted and directed, Pittsburgh nonetheless lacks the extra spark which transforms a good film into a great one.

Blonde Venus (1932)
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?

Follow the Boys (1944)
During World War II, all the studios put out 'all-star' vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.

Marlene (2000)
The movie follows the life and personality of the famous actress Marlene Dietrich.

Dishonored (1931)
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Golden Earrings (1947)
On the eve of World War II (1939) English officer Ralph Denistoun is in Nazi Germany on an espionage mission to recover a poison gas formula from Prof. Krosigk. He is helped by Lydia and her band of gypsies. Naturally romance develops along the way.

The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

The Song of Songs (1933)
Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Persuaded half-reluctantly to pose for Richard, her physical charms (shown as fully as 1933 mores permitted) soon melt away his 'strictly business' attitude, and they become lovers. But Richard, wanting his freedom, connives at her marriage to his wealthy client Baron von Merzbach... whose household includes a jealous former mistress and a susceptible farm manager. Has Richard still a role to play in her life?

The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. The backdrop is SternbergÍs surreal and fantastic Carnaval in Spain. In a café the older man details his encounters with the heart breaker that his younger friend has only just met at the parade. Forewarned, the young man swears he will avoid the fate of his friend, but rushes all the same to his evening rendezvous. A dreamlike story of frustrated, lost romance, spoken in the past tense, never really resolved.

The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Story of Sophia Frederica (later Catherine II of Russia) who is brought from Germany to Russia to become the wife of the mad Grand Duke Peter. Based on a diary of Catherine the Great.

Seven Sinners (1940)
Cabaret singer Bijou, ejected from several Indian Ocean islands for inciting riots, lands on Boni Komba at the Seven Sinners Cafe. She's a big hit with the U.S. Navy, especially Lt. Dan Brent; but sinister Antro considers her his property. When Dan wants to marry her, both his career and his life may be in danger. All the villains wear white suits.

Morocco (1930)
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, insouciant 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: is it too late for them?

Pittsburgh (1942)
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.

Blonde Venus (1932)
Helen Faraday is a nightclub singer turned housewife, but when her husband needs money to have a life-saving operation, she decides to resume her career as a singer to raise money, she undergoes a chain of events that separate her from her husband and force her to make a choice between her lucrative singing career, and her role as a wife and mother.

Follow the Boys (1944)
Hollywood's Biggest Stars Come Together For A Great Cause!

Marlene (2000)
The movie follows the life and personality of the famous actress Marlene Dietrich.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 10 March, 2012.