Actor : Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Jane Darwell
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Genre: Comedy
Year: 1933
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 91
Released: December 6, 2011
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English
Subtitles: English
DESCRIPTION:
Gary Cooper (High Noon), Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives), and Miriam Hopkins (Trouble in Paradise) 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 (Notorious) from a play by Noël Coward (Brief Encounter), and directed by Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise). A risqué relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it 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 most adroit, an entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring three stars at the height of their allure.
The Clerk, starring Charles Laughton
Selected-scene commentary by film professor William Paul
Play of the Week: A Choice of Coward, a 1964 British television production
New interview with Joseph McBride on Lubitsch
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan
Actor : Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Jane Darwell
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Genre: Comedy
Year: 1933
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 91
Released: December 6, 2011
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English
Subtitles: English
DESCRIPTION:
Gary Cooper (High Noon), Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives), and Miriam Hopkins (Trouble in Paradise) 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 (Notorious) from a play by Noël Coward (Brief Encounter), and directed by Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise). A risqué relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it 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 most adroit, an entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring three stars at the height of their allure.
The Clerk, starring Charles Laughton
Selected-scene commentary by film professor William Paul
Play of the Week: A Choice of Coward, a 1964 British television production
New interview with Joseph McBride on Lubitsch
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan
| Product Name | Design For Living (Criterion Collection) (1933) On DVD |
|---|---|
| This item is returnable | No |
