Blonde Venus is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant.

The musical score was by W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Paul Marquardt and Oscar Potoker, with cinematography by Bert Glennon.

Ned Faraday, an American chemist, has been inadvertently poisoned by radium and expects to die within a year, until he learns that Professor Holzapfel, a famous physician in Dresden, has developed a treatment that may be able to heal him.

The night after he hears this good news, while putting his son Johnny to bed, Ned and his wife Helen recite the story of the day on which they had met.

Helen, billed as "blonde Venus," has a successful debut performance, singing "Hot Voodoo" after emerging from a gorilla suit, and is noticed by Nick.

Ned sarcastically thanks her for saving his life and tells her to bring Johnny to him and then leave their home, assuring her that the law will be on his side if she decides to fight for custody.

She is arrested for vagrancy in New Orleans and is nearly jailed because she cannot afford the fine, but the judge, learning that she has a child, releases her providing that she leave town.

The MPPDA reviewed scripts using the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code which, while banning forced prostitution, allowed characters to engage in voluntary solicitation provided that the subject be handled with care.

Forsythe Hardy of Cinema Quarterly gave the film a gushing review, calling the picture "more brilliantly polished than any other America has sent us this year," Hardy praised the cinematography, writing: "For an hour the screen is filled with a succession of lovely images—finely assembled detail and imaginatively composed settings, photographed with a camera unusually sensitive.