Fredric March
Thomas B. "Tom" Chambers
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Design for Living is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, based on the 1932 play of the same name by Noël Coward.
Design for Living: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton. A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
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- Comedy, Mystery, Romance
- Ernst Lubitsch
- 1933-12-29
Dec 8, 2011 · Design for Living. 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.
- Tom Chambers
Noel Coward's 1932 play, Design for Living, about a menage a trois among British upper-class bohemians, had been a huge hit on the New York and London stage, starring Coward, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn Fontanne as the unconventional trio. The myth is that when Paramount bought the film rights that same year, Hollywood censorship demanded that Coward ...
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Fredric March
Painter George (Gary Cooper) and playwright Thomas (Fredric March) are two Americans sharing a Paris apartment. They're also rivals for the affection of commercial...
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- Fredric March
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Romance, Comedy
Dec 6, 2011 · Ernst Lubitsch’s Design for Living (1933) is what sexy should be—delightful, romantic, agonizing ecstasy. And it’s not just sexy but also revolutionary, daring, sweet, sour, cynical, carefree, poignant, and so far ahead of its time that one could cite it as not only a pre-Code masterpiece but also a prefeminist testimonial.
“Design for Living” is an entrancing depiction of what the much-whispered about concept of ‘adulting’ should look like. Director Ernst Lubitsch’s film is full of willowy sophisticates floating in and out of drawing rooms.
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