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The Devil Is a Woman is a 1935 American romance film directed and photographed by Josef von Sternberg, adapted from the 1898 novel La Femme et le pantin by Pierre Lou s. The film was based on a screenplay by John Dos Passos, and stars Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton, and Alison Skipworth.
- Josef von Sternberg
- March 15, 1935
The Devil Is a Woman: Directed by Josef von Sternberg. With Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth. A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.
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- Josef Von Sternberg
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Ralph Rainger. Costume design by. Travis Banton. Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich went out with a bang in their final film together, The Devil Is a Woman, a surreal tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnival in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain.
- Concha Perez
Josef von Sternberg's romance comedy-drama The Devil Is a Woman (1935) is practically a satire on women taking men for their money as well as foolish men falling in love with ladies that do...
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- Marlene Dietrich
- Josef Von Sternberg
- Drama
With Kerima, Ettore Manni, May Britt, Mario Passante. A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Maricchia's marriage, but ultimately falls to her own passion, leading to family disruption.
Seen today, The Devil Is a Woman is the perfect summation of von Sternberg's collaboration with Dietrich. As a sensual and unobtainable object of beauty who lures men to their doom, Dietrich gives a beautifully stylized performance that treads a fine line between ambiguity and self-parody.
