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Alec B Iconic musical numbers aside this is a lesser Dietrich/Sternberg collaboration. Censorship of the time appears to have muddled the screenplay's themes. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/10/24 Full Review steve d One of Grant's worst. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review georgan g Maybe it's the difference in era, but I don't like films where the woman is always in the wrong. It's the double standard. Neither man is good for her but Dietrich is the "perfect" mother and does what's best -supposedly- for the child. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Iconic musical numbers aside this is a lesser Dietrich/Sternberg collaboration. Censorship of the time appears to have muddled the screenplay's themes. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member It's all rather trashy, with Dietrich's Helen riding a see-saw of being rich and being poor and being rich and being poor, all the while looking great, carrying on torrid affairs, and detaching from everything but her boy. Only Dietrich could manage to make such a willfully self-destructive character as sympathetic a figure as she is. Although in many ways she's arrived at this point through her own series of bad choices, by the time her husband demands their son back, it's he who strikes the viewer as the problem. This in itself is a pretty remarkable feat for both the filmmaker and particularly the actress. All the while, von Sternberg continues to craft a bigger and more expansive sensory world for her to have her way with. And, though some of the sharp edges of their past films have been filed down this time, Dietrich does indeed have her way with it. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review david f A couple of excellent Marlene Dietrich music numbers enliven this racy soap opera fairy tale. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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