Review of Angel

Angel (1937)
8/10
Enjoyable
23 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I'm starting to watch old Hollywood movies and Marlene Dietrich was on my list of needing to watch. Angel came up on tv so I watched it. I absolutely love how they make her calm and non phased about anything that goes wrong. She doesn't seem to phase if she gets caught. It was a classy facade/charade she gave off here. Never acting like a teen who was worried. She seems so sophisticated here. I enjoy love affairs where they don't even have to DO IT that makes it stem off of "cheating". Or unless I missed something. It's an interesting ending though. Her telling her man if he were to look in the room, better get a lawyer and divorce papers ready which would indicate her saying "if you don't trust me, I want a divorce" which is a clever way of hiding the "woman" in that room. Yet he still says he can learn to move on if she's willing to, and they walk out. She learned even before that it was only a fling and it meant absolutely nothing because nothing really did happen. She was willing to walk away from her "other guy" to have her husband. That form of behavior today wouldn't fly by today nor would her demeanor. I liked this movie based on her mannerisms on how she dealt with everything so grown up.....some of you might not agree.
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