Synopsis edited from Wikipedia to the film stills. Feel free to use the stills in any way.
The Blue Angel follows a Professor Rath through a transformation from an esteemed educator at the local college to a destitute vagrant.
Rath's descent begins when he sees the beautiful Lola Lola, the headliner for the local cabaret, The Blue Angel.
Consumed with desire, Rath returns to the night club the following evening and spends the night with her.
The next morning, reeling from his night of passion, Rath arrives late to school to find his classroom in chaos and the principal furious with his behavior.
Rath subsequently resigns his position to marry Lola, but their happiness is short-lived, as they soon fritter away the teacher's meager savings and Rath is forced to take a position as a clown to pay the bills.
His growing insecurities about Lola's profession as a "shared woman" eventually reduce him to a mere shell of the man he used to be, consumed by his lust and jealousy. The troupe returns to his hometown, where he is ridiculed and berated by the Blue Angel patrons, the very people he himself used to deride. 
As Rath performs his last act, he witnesses his wife embrace, and kiss, one of her former lovers, and Rath is enraged to the point of insanity. He attempts to strangle Lola, but is beaten down by the other members of the troupe and locked in a strait jacket.
Later that night, Rath is freed, and makes his way towards his old classroom.
Rejected, humiliated, and destitute, he passes away in remorse, clenching the desk from where he once taught.
The beauty of cinema and in this case, The Blue Angel, is how it continues to captivate and remain an important film in education, 80 years on.
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