Angel (film, 1937)

Ange is a film of 1937 carried out by Ernst Lubitsch, with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall and Melvyn Douglas.

Synopsis

An young woman (Marlene Dietrich) arrives at Paris incognito and goes in a friend with whom it maintains an obscure past, the large duchess Anna (Laura Hope Crews) who maintains a living room appointment. There she meets there American, sunken of the Indies, Tony Halton (Melvyn Douglas), who taking it for the large duchess invites it to dine with 20:45. Tony quickly falls in love with the young unknown factor which it calls Ange (" Angel" in English) and they pass one evening very romantic, symbolized by the musical topic which a violonist improvises. But at the end of the evening, Ange flees while making him promise to forget it and never not to seek which it is. Angel is actually the wife of the diplomat Frederick Barker who, often abroad, and more particularly with the SDN, only leaves it most of the time. Both knowing a quiet union, if quiet that they do not manage to dispute. Little time after its return of Geneva, it re-examines a friend met during the First World War, which proves to be Tony Halton. Frederick invites it to lunch what makes it possible Tony to find Ange. This one, tries to make him believe that she it forever recontré but, obviously, he does not believe it. Following some arguments between Sir Frederick and his wife, Ange leaves to Paris with the intention to find Tony there. Frederick is now almost certain that his misled wife and that it is the young woman that Anthony seeks everywhere. The three characters find themselves in the large duchess where Frederick leaves with his wife the following choice: or she marries Tony or she leaves with him to Vienna, in the hotel of their honeymoon. Angel chooses finally her husband and both leave for Vienna.

Comment

Taken there is still little for a minor work Ange is held from now on for one of the films most representative of Lubitsch. It illustrates indeed perfectly its art of the double-direction and ambiguity: " Angel, or how, by elegance, to circumvent all the censures "

Distribution

Data sheet

  • Realizer: Ernst Lubitsch
  • Scenario writers: Nickel silver Lengyel & Guy Bolton
  • Music: Frédérick Hollander
  • Coming out date: October 29th, 1937
  • Lasted: 91 mn
  • Sound: Mono
  • Color: Black and white
  • Language: English
  • Country: The USA
  • Company: Paramount Pictures
  • Titles: Angel (France), Engel (Germany), Angelo (Italy), Angel (the USA), O Anjo (Portugal), O Angelos (Greece), Enkeli (Finland)

External bond

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