DESIGN FOR LIVING (CRITERION)

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• Release Year: 1933
• Genre: Comedy; Romance
• Plot: 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 three stars at the height of their allure.
• Cast: Fredric March; Gary Cooper; Miriam Hopkins; Edward Everett Horton; Franklin Pangborn; Isabel Jewell; Jane Darwell; Wyndham Standing; Cosmo Kyrle Bellew; Lionel Belmore; Thomas Braidon; Nora Cecil; Emile Chautard; Mathilde Comont; Adrienne D'Ambricourt; James Donlan; Harry Dunkinson; Helena Phillips Evans; Charles K. French; Mary Gordon; Grace Hayle; Olaf Hytten; Armand Kaliz; Edmund Mortimer; George Savidan; Rolfe Sedan; Vernon Steele; Mrs. Treboal; Barry Winton; William Worthington; Ernst Lubitsch; Noel Coward; Ben Hecht
• Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: Movie