The Devil Is a Woman
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. Through a series of flashbacks, Captain Costelar (Lionel Atwill) recounts to the young Antonio Galvan (Cesar Romero) the story of his harrowing affair with the notorious seductress Concha Perez (Dietrich), warning his listener to gird himself against her charms. Despite his counsel, Galvan falls under Concha’s spell, leading to a violent denouement. Ever the ornate visual stylist, von Sternberg evokes Spanish culture with a touch of the luridly fantastic, further elevated by Travis Banton’s opulent costume design and award-winning cinematography by von Sternberg himself.
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Cast
- Marlene Dietrich
- Concha Perez
- Lionel Atwill
- Captain Don Pasqual “Pasqualito” Costelar
- Edward Everett Horton
- Governor Don Paquito
- Alison Skipworth
- Señora Perez
- Cesar Romero
- Antonio Galvan
- Don Alvarado
- Morenito
- Tempe Pigott
- Tuerta
- Francisco Moreno
- Alphonso
Credits
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Photographed by
- Josef von Sternberg
- Screenplay by
- Jon Dos Passos
- From the novel The Woman and the Puppet by
- Pierre Louÿs
- Edited by
- Sam Winston
- Music based on
- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
- Songs by
- Leo Robin
- Songs by
- Ralph Rainger
- Costume design by
- Travis Banton
