Directed by Josef von Sternberg
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal)
Marlene Dietrich marries Herbert Marshall after he spies her swimming naked in a German lake. They raise a child in a small NYC apartment where he works as a chemist. Unfortunately his work has poisoned him and must go to Europe for a cure. While away, she works to pay for it, but unexpectedly falls in love with millionaire Cary Grant. He returns early and discovers her affair. She goes on the run with their child, but he eventually catches up to her and takes him away. She becomes destitute, only to find stardom in a Paris cabaret. Grant shows up again and they return to NYC to face her husband and reclaim her child. Moodily photographed by Bert Glennon, who also worked with John Ford and Cecil B. DeMille: there are several stunningly composed portraits of Dietrich. However, the melodramatic story asks too much. It receives an automatic rating deduction for a man in an ape suit, though in this case it's a woman in an ape suit.
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