The Blue Angel (1959 film) The Blue Angel (1959 film) The Blue Angel is a 1959 American drama film in CinemaScope directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film is a remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film "The Blue Angel" about cabaret singer Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and the troubled, aged Professor Rath (Emil Jannings), who falls for her much to his own detriment. Professor Immanuel Rath (Curt Jurgens) is shocked to discover a number of his students have been frequenting a nightspot called the Blue Angel, where a scandalous entertainer named Lola (May Britt) performs. Rath attends the show one night in order to catch some
Marlene Dietrich filmography films directed by Sternberg, including "Dishonored" (1931), "Blonde Venus" (1932), and "Shanghai Express" (1932). Dietrich and Sternberg's last two film collaborations, "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) and "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935)—the most styled of their collaborations—were their least successful at the box office. Her first sound film without Sternberg was 1933's "The Song of Songs", directed by Rouben Mamoulian, although she and Sternberg would later work together another two times. But without Sternberg, Dietrich—along with Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Dolores del Río and others—was labeled "box office poison" after the movie "Knight Without