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Design For Living

1933, Movie, NR, 90 mins

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Though this film version of the literate, witty play by Noel Coward is tame by comparison, the "Lubitsch Touch" is very much in evidence. March, an apprentice playwright, and Cooper, a young painter, meet commercial artist Hopkins on a Paris-bound train, immediately falling in love with her. When she can't decide which one she loves, she creates a "design for living," one where a menage a trois situation takes place. It's all platonic, but March and Cooper begin to show jeal... read more leave a comment
Tom (Fredric March) at his job writing "Un-produced plays" when Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton) inspires him, visiting to defend a lady's honor in Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living, 1933.
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Snoozing on a French train, George (Gary Cooper) and Tom (Fredric March) can be forgiven for assuming Gilda (Miriam Hopkins) is French, in the first scene from Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living, 1933.
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George (Gary Cooper) romancing Gilda (Miriam Hopkins) in the apartment then bumping into her chivalrous pal Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton) on the stairs in Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living, 1933.
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Opening credits introducing Gary Cooper, Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Design For Living, 1933, in which Ben Hecht re-writes Noel Coward for Ernst Lubitsch.
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Posted: 8/18/2009
Year: 1933
Rated NR

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Cast
Fredric March: Tom Chambers
Gary Cooper: George Curtis
Miriam Hopkins: Gilda Farrell
Edward Everett Horton: Max Plunkett
Franklin Pangborn: Mr. Douglas
Isabel Jewell: Lisping Stenographer

 

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