Every time we see The Blue Angel, we can’t help Falling in Love Again.

The Blue Angel (1930)
By: Josef von Sternberg
Publisher: New York: Eureka Video, 2002
Call No.: Other 791.4372 BLA
Location: Film Village, library@esplanade

From Radio Times Guide to Films:

Contrary to popular myth, 28-year-old Marlene Dietrich had already appeared in almost 20 (admittedly minor) films in her native Germany when Josef Von Sternberg cast her as Lola, the sensual cabaret singer who enslaves, humiliates and finally destroys middle-aged professor Emil Jannings. The film did, however, bring about the famous von Sternberg/Dietrich Hollywood collaboration.

Jannings, making his first talking picture, has some wonderful moments in an uneven performance. But it was the cruel and seductive Dietrich, in top hat and black stockings, perched on a bar stool and huskily singing Falling in Love Again, that became one of the cinema’s great iconic images.

The film was pointlessly and inadequately remade in 1959 with Curt Jurgens and May Britt (The Blue Angel 168).

Work Cited:
The Blue Angel. Radio Times Guide to Films. 2000.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of titles featuring the von Sternberg/Dietrich collaboration for your further viewing pleasure. All listed titles can be found at the Film Village, library@esplanade. Please check our catalogue for availability of titles.

* Summaries taken from catalogue descriptions.

Blonde Venus (1932)
By: Josef von Sternberg
Call No.: Other 791.4372 BLO
Location: Film Village, library@esplanade

An aspiring young actress gives up the stage to marry a scientist who becomes afflicted with radium poisoning. She returns to cabaret life and meets a wealthy playboy who gives her the money for her husband’s treatment, becomes involved with him, then flees when her infidelity is discovered, only to find herself the biggest star in Paris.

Von Sternberg/Dietrich

The Devil is a Woman (1935)
By: Josef von Sternberg
Call No.: Other 791.4372 DEV
Location: Film Village, library@esplanade

At the turn of the century, in the port town of Seville, it’s carnival week, and the blood of enemies and the passions of lovers run hot. But none so much as those of a young revolutionary, his old friend, and the new woman who comes between them both.

Von Sternberg/Dietrich

The Scarlet Empress (1934)
By: Josef von Sternberg
Call No.: 791.4372 SCA
Location: Film Village, library@esplanade

Young princess Catherine is forced into a marriage with Peter of Russia, and becomes the Empress, Catherine the Great.