Although not considered part of the "Censored Eleven", this cartoon has been mostly unavailable on TV for years, due to it's negative racial overtones.
The inmates in the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been watching a slew of movies to showcase this year. We came across one that several of them had never seen before - the 1937 film, Angel, a completely forgotten Ernst Lubitsch/ Marlene Dietrich collaboration which spelled the end of Dietrich career at Paramount, (It's a worthy curiosity that you show watch.) So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some gougeres,) and a beverage (a champagne cocktail?) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this forgotten little gem, Angel,
At the time, the film was a failure at the box office. Several of Marlene Dietrich's most recent films had flopped at the box office. She was deemed 'box office poison,' and her seven-year contract with Paramount was cancelled, (within two years, her career would be revived with the 1939 western-comedy Destry Rides Again.) Unfortunately, audiences saw it was a Lubitsch film and assumed it was a comedy. The film clearly is not and was one of the director's only dramas, expresses his (and probably Dietrich's) emotions about the coming changes in Europe.
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