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Saturday Cinema: Blonde Venus: Dishonoured

on BBC Two England

A double bill featuring the legendary Marlene Dietrich.
Also starring Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant.

In this 1932 melodrama of love and jealousy Dietrich gives a magnetic performance as Helen, a Berlin stage performer, who marries an American, Ned Faraday. Some years later, Ned discovers he has radium poisoning. Helen's search for sufficient money to pay for the treatment that will save his life leads her to the stage of a New York night club - and to the wealthy and attractive Nick Townsend.
Directed bv JOSEF VON STERNBERG
(First showing on British television)
(Black and White)
(Films: page 18)

and at 4.45
"Dishonoured"
Also starring Victor McLaglen.

Marlene Dietrich is X-27, beautiful spy for the Austrian Secret Service, in this vintage classic set in First World War Vienna. But her brilliant undercover career is endangered by the traitorous Lieutenant Kranau ...

(First showing on British television)
(Black and white)
(Films: page 18)

Contributors

Director/Writer:
Josef von Sternberg
Helen Faraday/X-27:
Marlene Dietrich
Edward Faraday:
Herbert Marshall
Nick Townsend:
Cary Grant
Johnny Faraday:
Dickie Moore
Ben Smith:
Gene Morgan
'Taxi Belle' Hooper:
Rita Laroy
O'Connor:
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Detective Wilson:
Sidney Toler
Dr Pierce:
Morgan Wallace
Lt Kranau:
Victor McLaglen
Col Kovrin:
Lew Cody
Secret Service Head:
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Young Lt:
Barry Norton
Gen Von Hindau:
Warner Oland
Court officer:
Davison Clark
Gen Dymov:
Wilfred Lucas
Manager:
Bill Powell

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