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Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: CC2908BD | The Criterion Collection | (boxed set)CC2912BD | The Criterion Collection | (disc)Language: English, German Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 934.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]Edition: Blu-ray special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781681434681
1681434687

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

LOC classification:

PN1997 .B56 2018

Production credits:

Director of photography, Bert Glennon ; editor, Joseph von Sternberg ; music, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Paul Marquardt, Oscar Potoker.

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Gene Morgan, Rita La Roy.Summary: A glittering spectacle and a sweeping melodrama about motherly devotion. Unfolding episodically, the film tells the story of Helen (Dietrich), once a German chanteuse, now an American housewife, who resurrects her stage career after her husband (Herbert Marshall) falls ill; she then becomes the mistress of a millionaire (Cary Grant), in a slide from loving martyr to dishonored woman.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00303 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050306788

Special features: 2018 interview with costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis about the films' costumes and their designer, the legendary Travis Banton; 2018 interview with Deutsche Kinemathek curator Silke Ronneburg about the museum's Marlene Dietrich collection in Berlin; The fashion side of Hollywood, a 1935 publicity short featuring Dietrich and Banton.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932.

Title from title screen ; statement of responsibility and crew credits partially from boxed set's accompanying book.

"New, restored 4K digital transfer".

Issued in a boxed set: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood, which includes an accompanying book (80 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).

1.37:1 aspect ratio.

Blu-ray; region A; LPCM 1.0.

This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.

In English with some German; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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