Design for Living (1933) (Not Married)

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Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Starring (View all)

Fredric March
Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers

Gary Cooper
George Curtis

Miriam Hopkins
Gilda Farrell

Edward Everett Horton
Max Plunkett

Franklin Pangborn
Mr. Douglas, Theatrical Producer

Isabel Jewell
Plunkett's Stenographer

Jane Darwell
Curtis' Housekeeper

Wyndham Standing
Max's Butler

Written by (View all)

Noel Coward

Ben Hecht
(screenplay)

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14 years, 5 months ago at Oct 23 2:14

Joreth

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023940/ - IMDB
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Design_for_Living_Peter_Ibbetson/70031810?trkid=222336&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=272568383_0_0 - Netflix
http://www.amazon.com/Cooper-Collection-Design-Ibbetson-General/dp/B0007RTB9M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1222995732&sr=1-1 - Amazon

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Description: Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentleman’s agreement” in this continental pre-Code comedy, freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A risqué relationship story and a witty take on creative pursuits, the film concerns a commercial artist (Hopkins) unable—or unwilling—to choose between the equally dashing painter (Cooper) and playwright (March) she meets on a train en route to the City of Light. Design for Living is Lubitsch at his sexiest, an entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring ... (more)

Release date: 29 December 1933

Tags: Romance (6), Comedy (6), 1933 (4), Love Triangle (2), Black & White (2), 1930s (2), Pre-code (2), Playwright (1), Miriam Hopkins (1), Edward Everett Horton (1), Trianglular Love Story (1), Talkies (1), Gary Cooper (1), Fredric March (1), Paramount Pictures (1), Polyamory (1), Paramount (1), Painter (1), Relationship (1), B/w (1)

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Films Condemned by the Legion of Decency (75 movies items)

"Racy comedy about a menage-a-trois (Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, and Fredric March), based on a play by Noel Coward. "

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Taste of Cinema's Essential Pre-Code Hollywood (30 movies items)

"This is the perfect example of a movie that most definitively would never have gotten made during the Hays Code reign. The plot finds Lubitsch’s favorite, Miriam Hopkins, enamored of both Gary Cooper and Fredric March, in fact, she is so attracted by the two, she simply decides that living as a trio could work out. It features all the Pre-Code musts: delightful word-play, sexiness and comic allure. The Lubtisch-Touch is at its zenith getting brilliant performances out of all three main-player"