DESIGN FOR LIVING - pt.1

USA 1933, Ernst Lubitsch;
Fredric March ... Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers
Gary Cooper... George Curtis
Miriam Hopkins ... Gilda Farrell
Edward Everett Horton ... Max Plunkett
-
You won´t believe your ears how frank early 30´s Hollywood could be about sex and how honest about the entanglements of love.
Needless to say it´s also the acme of witty dialogue and great fun with a radiant Miriam Hopkins and a Gary, who´s doing a fabulous Cary job.
-
Essential reading about Hollywood censorship and the Hays Code - what it did and didn´t do -, aiming to dispel some myths around "pre-code":
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/29/pre_code_cinema.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ernst Lubitsch
• Gary Cooper
• Miriam Hopkins
• Edward Everett Horton
• pre-code
• screwball
• Design for living
• 1933

[EdwardEverettHorton]

You´re welcome. You could find it as part of the "Gary Cooper Collection" (20 bucks on Amazon). I got mine from the german Amazon, where it´s called "Serenade zu dritt".

[oywidapoodles]

I just adore Youtube uploaders like you bringing us these great, old movies. Thanks!

[rosequartz19]

I could watch this movie everyday. :)

[yepheth]

Hopkins naughty, adorable and seductive, March funny and sarcastic, Cooper totally sweetheart, Everett simply fantastic a lot more than a mere supporting actor. My favourite Lubitsch comedy.

[yepheth]

@lsabella333 i guess it was still in the "pre-code" period, at the very end though. That's why. Impossible to imagine that in the 40s and 50s movies. Anyway it was mostly a "ménage à trois", Edward Everett marriage is the way to show the fallacy of traditional realationships a mere excuse to not chose one between Cooper and March. Three as perfect number for the real perfect match...

[djackson2825]

Subscribing. Love your channel name. I've only seen one Edward E. Horton film, and he was a hoot in "Lonely Wives"

[karakorak]

I was following along the opening lines of dialogue and thinking "My bloody French probably isn't up to an entire film like this" and I began looking to see if there was a language setting so I could switch it back to English, and then she called out, "Nuts!" Imagine my relief. My French has grown rusty.

[dannyrose55]

nice



[Cooper1970]

Edward Everett is the best!!!!!!

[flenif2247]

Damn that gary Copper is handsome. Older movies often had the most handsome men and most beautiful women. Today we have some but far fewer, imo.

I just love that these beauties are captured and documented on films to live on forever.

[flenif2247]

@lsabella333 it was allowed because it occurred before the movies were imposed with "moral codes"

[iHooDoo]

Fredric March, you handsome devil. You deserve all of the awards. All hail the master of the duel role! :D

[6or1]

Does this mean I'm going to have to learn to speak French? I'll just follow along and see how it goes..... The first five minutes look like it should be quite enjoyable.