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Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930 - 1935
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The Scarlet Empress
Year: 1934
Time: 104
Aspect Ratio
1.37:1
Audio
English 2.0 PCM Mono
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Morocco
Year: 1930
Time: 92
Aspect Ratio
1.19:1
Audio
English 2.0 PCM Mono
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Dishonored
Year: 1931
Time: 91
Aspect Ratio
1.19:1
Audio
English 2.0 PCM Mono
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Shanghai Express
Year: 1932
Time: 82
Aspect Ratio
1.37:1
Audio
English 2.0 PCM Mono
Streaming Options
Blonde Venus
Year: 1932
Time: 94
Aspect Ratio
1.37:1
Audio
English 2.0 PCM Mono
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The Devil is a Woman
Year: 1935
Time: 79
Aspect Ratio
1.37:1
Audio
English 2.0 PCM Mono
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The Scarlet Empress
| Morocco
| Dishonored
| Shanghai Express
| Blonde Venus
| The Devil is a Woman
Licensor
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Featuring: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Herbert Marshall, Lionel Atwill, Victor McLaglen, John Lodge, Cary Grant, Sam Jaffe, Edward Everett Horton, Anna May Wong, Adolphie Menjou, Warner Oland, Ullrich Haupt, Alison Skipworth, Dickie Moore, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith, Eugene Pallette, Lew Cody, Gene Morgan, Eve Southern, Cesar Romero, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Rita La Roy, Don Alvarado, Lawrence Grant, Gavin Gordon, Barry Norton, Francis McDonald, Louise Closser Hale, Olive Tell, Tempe Pigott, Paul Porcasi, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Francisco Moreno, Ruthelma Stevens, Sidney Toler, Emilie Chautard, Morgan Wallace, Erville Alderson, Davison Clark, Phillip Sleeman, Marie Wells
The collaboration between filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and actress Marlene Dietrich is one of the most enduring in all Hollywood cinema. Tasked by Paramount bosses to find ‘the next big thing’, director von Sternberg lighted upon German silent star Dietrich and brought her to Hollywood. Successfully transitioning from the silent to the sound era, together they crafted a series of remarkable features that expressed a previously hitherto unbridled ecstasy in the process of filmmaking itself. Marked by striking cinematography, beautiful design and elaborate camerawork these vibrantly sensuous films redefined cinema of the time, while Dietrich’s sexually ambiguous on-screen personas caused a sensation and turned her from actor to superstar and icon. Lavish, lascivious and wildly eccentric, the films Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich made for Paramount Pictures in the 1930s provide a unique testimony to Hollywood’s Golden Age.
The six films that von Sternberg made with Dietrich in Hollywood are presented here in new restorations on Blu-ray for the very first time in the UK. Containing a wealth of new and archival extras – including new appreciations, interviews, audio commentaries, rare films, outtakes and deleted audio, documentaries… and more! This stunning box set is strictly limited to 6,000 units.
The six films that von Sternberg made with Dietrich in Hollywood are presented here in new restorations on Blu-ray for the very first time in the UK. Containing a wealth of new and archival extras – including new appreciations, interviews, audio commentaries, rare films, outtakes and deleted audio, documentaries… and more! This stunning box set is strictly limited to 6,000 units.
Technical Specifications
Format: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio:
1.19:1 , 1.37:1 , 1.37:1
Audio:
English 2.0 PCM Mono
, English 2.0 PCM Mono
, English 2.0 PCM Mono
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Subtitles:
English
Region:
B
Discs:
6 Discs |
BD-50
Supplements
- Lux Radio Theatre: ‘The Legionnaire and the Lady’ (1936, 59 mins): radio adaptation of Morocco, starring Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable
- The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935, 11 mins): Paramount Pictures promotional film featuring acclaimed costume designer and long-time Marlene Dietrich collaborator Travis Banton
- If It Isn’t Pain (Then It Isn’t Love) (1935, 3 mins): surviving audio from a deleted musical number
- Audio commentary with film critics Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger (2019)
- Introduction by Nicholas von Sternberg (2019, 11 mins): the son of Josef von Sternberg discusses Morocco as well as his father’s early film career
- The Art of Josef von Sternberg (2019, 10 mins): Nicholas von Sternberg reflects on his father’s work in painting and sculpture
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- Introduction by Nicholas von Sternberg (2019, 12 mins): the son of Josef von Sternberg discusses Dishonored
- Josef von Sternberg, a Retrospective (1969, 78 mins): feature-length television documentary by the acclaimed Belgian filmmaker Harry Kümel, containing rare interview footage with Josef von Sternberg
- “I did what he told me to do.” (2019, 17 mins): video essay on the films of Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg by film historian Tag Gallagher
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- Audio commentary with critic and film historian David Thompson (2019)
- ntroduction by Nicholas von Sternberg (2019, 4 mins): the son of Josef von Sternberg discusses Shanghai Express
- Trouble in Hollywood (2019, 24 mins): writer and filmmaker Jasper Sharp explores the life and career of actor Anna May Wong
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- Audio commentary with film and arts critic Adrian Martin (2019)
- Introduction by Nicholas von Sternberg (2019, 7 mins): the son of Josef von Sternberg discusses Blonde Venus
- Dietrich, a Queer Icon (2019, 25 mins): So Mayer, author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema, analyses the queer iconography and legacy of Marlene Dietrich
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- Audio commentary with writer and film programmer Tony Rayns (2019)
- Introduction by Nicholas von Sternberg (2019, 7 mins): the son of Josef von Sternberg discusses The Scarlet Empress
- Josef von Sternberg: An Introduction (2009, 75 mins): archival audio recording of von Sternberg’s biographer John Baxter exploring the director’s career in an event conducted at London’s BFI Southbank
- The Twilight of an Angel (2012, 54 mins): Dominique Leeb’s acclaimed French television documentary on Marlene Dietrich’s final years
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- Introduction by Nicholas von Sternberg (2019, 9 mins): the son of Josef von Sternberg discusses The Devil Is a Woman
- Styling the Stars (2019, 23 mins): film historian Nathalie Morris explores the costume designs of Dietrich and von Sternberg’s Hollywood films
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- Booklet
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The Scarlet Empress
Morocco
Dishonored
Shanghai Express
Blonde Venus
The Devil is a Woman
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