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'''Dates of Action:''' 1932 | '''Dates of Action:''' 1932 | ||
'''Location:''' | '''Location:''' United States | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' In the case of ''Blonde Venus'', written by Joseph von Sternberg, three scripts were written before one was approved by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA). The original was written by Joseph von Sternberg. The second was revised under the direction of the films producer at Paramount, B.P. Schulberg. The final version was the result of a compromise between Sternberg and Schulberg. "...In Sternberg's version of the script, Helen (Marlene Dietrich) gives up a glamorous career on the stage in Paris, and also her engagement to a millionaire, Nick (Cary Grant), in order to return to her relatively impoverished husband Ned (Herbert Marshall), and son, Johnny.... | '''Description of Artwork:''' In the case of ''Blonde Venus'', written by Joseph von Sternberg, three scripts were written before one was approved by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA). The original was written by Joseph von Sternberg. The second was revised under the direction of the films producer at Paramount, B.P. Schulberg. The final version was the result of a compromise between Sternberg and Schulberg. "...In Sternberg's version of the script, Helen (Marlene Dietrich) gives up a glamorous career on the stage in Paris, and also her engagement to a millionaire, Nick (Cary Grant), in order to return to her relatively impoverished husband Ned (Herbert Marshall), and son, Johnny.... | ||
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'''Results of Incident:''' "(The third script) reinstated much of the director's original script including the ending. Lamar Trotti ....found the first draft, written by Sternberg, "utterly impossible," but did not comment on this draft because the producer was already planning to ask for drastic revisions. Trotti found the second draft (the studio's) to be better then the first, but he was still concerned about how to represent the adulterous love affair (which is present in all three versions of the script) and the studio's version of the ending. Censors considered Sternberg's third draft an improvement upon the studio's version and approved it after minor revisions." | '''Results of Incident:''' "(The third script) reinstated much of the director's original script including the ending. Lamar Trotti ....found the first draft, written by Sternberg, "utterly impossible," but did not comment on this draft because the producer was already planning to ask for drastic revisions. Trotti found the second draft (the studio's) to be better then the first, but he was still concerned about how to represent the adulterous love affair (which is present in all three versions of the script) and the studio's version of the ending. Censors considered Sternberg's third draft an improvement upon the studio's version and approved it after minor revisions." | ||
'''Source:''' Lea Jacobs, "The Censorship of the Blonde Venus...", Cinema Journal | '''Source:''' Lea Jacobs, "The Censorship of the Blonde Venus...", ''Cinema Journal'' No. 27 , Spring 1988, pg. 21-31 | ||
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[[Category:United States]] | [[Category:United States]] | ||
[[Category:Political/Economic/Social Opinion]] | [[Category:Political/Economic/Social Opinion]] | ||
[[Category:Explicit Sexuality]] | [[Category:Explicit Sexuality]] | ||
