The Love Goddesses
Cast & Crew
Carl King
Ray Angus
Gideon Bachmann
Edward Duffield
William K. Everson
Percy Faith
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Synopsis
Films used to survey the history of the "love goddess" are: Blonde Venus (1932) and Morocco (1930) with Marlene Dietrich; True Heart Susie (1919) with Lillian Gish; Leopard Woman (1920) with Louise Glaum; Cleopatra (1917) with Theda Bara; Intolerance (1916) with Mae Marsh; The Cheat (1915) with Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa; The Sheik (1921) with Agnes Ayres and Rudolph Valentino; Hula (1927) with Clara Bow; Blood and Sand (1922) with Nita Naldi; Woman of the World (1925) with Pola Negri; The Sorrows of Satan (1926) with Lya De Putti; The Love of Sunya (1927) with Gloria Swanson; The Diary of a Lost Girl ( Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen 1929; U. S. release uncertain) with Louise Brooks; Ecstasy ( Extase , 1933; U. S. release: 1937) with Hedy Lamarr; L'Atlantide (1932; U. S. release uncertain) with Brigitte Helm; Peter the Tramp ( Luffar-Petter , 1922; U. S. release uncertain) with Greta Garbo; Platinum Blonde (1931) with Jean Harlow; Cabin in the Cotton (1932) with Bette Davis; Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) with Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell; No Man of Her Own (1932) with Carole Lombard and Clark Gable; Professional Sweetheart (1933) with Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster; Love Me Tonight (1932) with Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy, Maurice Chevalier, and Charles Ruggles; I'm No Angel (1933) with Mae West; Baby Face (1933) with Barbara Stanwyck; Now and Forever (1934) with Shirley Temple; They Won't Forget (1937) with Lana Turner; College Swing (1938) with Betty Grable; Her Jungle Love (1938) with Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland; Gilda (1946) with Rita Hayworth; A Place in the Sun (1951) with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift; Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe; It Started in Naples (1960) with Sophia Loren and Clark Gable; Tiger Bay (1959) with Hayley Mills and Horst Buchholz; Roman Holiday (1953) with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck; Room at the Top (1958; U. S. release: 1959) with Heather Sears and Simone Signoret; Love Is My Profession ( En cas de malheur , 1958; U. S. release: 1959) with Brigitte Bardot; Expresso Bongo (1959; U. S. release: 1960) with Sylvia Syms; The American Venus (1926) with Esther Ralston; and Cleopatra (1934) with Claudette Colbert.
Cast
Carl King
Crew
Ray Angus
Gideon Bachmann
Edward Duffield
William K. Everson
Percy Faith
Graeme Ferguson
Graeme Ferguson
Nat Greene
Janet Jacobson
Paul Killiam
Howard Kuperman
Georges Labrousse
James A. Lebenthal
Frances Morris
Saul J. Turell
Saul J. Turell
Walter Reade--sterling Inc.
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Notes
Also reviewed at 76, 79, and 82 min. Film footage and stills are credited to Columbia Pictures, Editions Jean-Jacques Pauvert, the George Eastman House, the Killiam-Sterling Film Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, Paramount Pictures, the Rank Organisation, RKO Radio Pictures, Romulus Films, and United Artists.
