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'''''Design for Living''''' is a [[pre-Code|pre-''Hays code'']] [[comedy film]] based on a 1933 [[ |
'''''Design for Living''''' is a [[pre-Code|pre-''Hays code'']] [[comedy film]] based on a 1933 play [[Design for Living|of the same name]] by [[Noël Coward]]. The film, released by [[Paramount Pictures]] later the same year, was produced and directed by [[Ernst Lubitsch]]. The Screenplay was by [[Ben Hecht]]. It concerns a trio of artistic characters and their complicated three-way relationship. |
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The film starred [[Gary Cooper]], [[Fredric March]], [[Miriam Hopkins]] and [[Edward Everett Horton]]. Coward said, "I'm told that there are three of my original lines left in the film - such original ones as 'Pass the mustard'."<ref>Richards, p. 86</ref> |
The film starred [[Gary Cooper]], [[Fredric March]], [[Miriam Hopkins]] and [[Edward Everett Horton]]. Coward said, "I'm told that there are three of my original lines left in the film - such original ones as 'Pass the mustard'."<ref>Richards, p. 86</ref> |
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| Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Written by | Play: Noel Coward Screenplay: Ben Hecht |
| Produced by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Starring | Gary Cooper Fredric March Miriam Hopkins Edward Everett Horton |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Edited by | Frances Marsh |
| Music by | John Leipold |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | December 29, Template:Fy (US) |
Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Template:FilmUS |
| Language | Transclusion error: {{En}} is only for use in File namespace. Use {{langx|en}} or {{in lang|en}} instead. |
Design for Living is a pre-Hays code comedy film based on a 1933 play of the same name by Noël Coward. The film, released by Paramount Pictures later the same year, was produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The Screenplay was by Ben Hecht. It concerns a trio of artistic characters and their complicated three-way relationship.
The film starred Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and Edward Everett Horton. Coward said, "I'm told that there are three of my original lines left in the film - such original ones as 'Pass the mustard'."[1]
History
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Coward wrote a succession of popular hit plays.[2] On Broadway, Design for Living was a popular and critical hit, starring Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and Coward.[3][4] Its risqué subject matter attracted notice. The New York Sun called it "as happy a spectacle of surface skating as one might see," adding that the skaters were "sometimes on very thin ice."[5]
Cast
- Fredric March as Tom Chambers
- Gary Cooper as George Curtis
- Miriam Hopkins as Gilda Farrell
- Edward Everett Horton as Max Plunkett
- Franklin Pangborn as Mr. Douglas
- Isabel Jewell as Plunkett's Stenographer
- Jane Darwell as Curtis' Housekeeper
- Wyndham Standing as Max's Butler
Plot
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In Paris, playwright Tom Chambers and artist George Curtis both fall in love with Gilda, an American woman. She cannot make up her mind which man she loves, so the three decide to live together. At first, the three are friends, but as time goes by, the two men become more competitive. Gilda decides to end the dispute by marrying her employer, Max Plunkett, but finds the marriage dull and stifling. After Tom and George crash a party at the Plunkett mansion, Gilda returns to the two men, and Max agrees to a divorce.
Notes
References
- Hoare, Philip. Noël Coward, A Biography. Sinclair-Stevenson 1995. ISBN 1-85619-265-2.
- Lahr, John. Coward the Playwright, Methuen, London, 1982. ISBN 0-413-48050-X
- Lesley, Cole. The Life of Noël Coward. Cape 1976. ISBN 0-224-01288-6.
- Richards, Dick. The Wit of Noël Coward, Sphere Books, 1970