Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) | |
| Director(s) | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Producer(s) | Ernst Lubitsch, William LeBaron (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Romance |
| Top Topics | Mistaken Identity, Money, Remake, Screwball Comedy |
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and produced by William LeBaron and Ernst Lubitsch.
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Mademoiselle Nicole (Colbert), the daughter of a destitute aristocrat on the French Riviera, lands a charming American millionaire (Cooper) only to find he has been married seven times previously. Determined to teach him a lesson about fidelity, Nicole is going to make sure that there will be no number nine. So begins a battle of the sexes as the wily new bride sets out to tame her Bluebeard and he tries his best to play the game his way. Cooper's a little flat-footed for the light Lubitsch touch, but a pleasant sparring partner for Colbert.
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and was not televised until many years later.
This film was the first collaboration of director Ernst Lubitsch with writers Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. At their first production meeting, Ernst Lubitsch posed this question: How do the boy and girl get together? Billy Wilder promptly suggested that the opening scene should be in the men's shop of a department store. "The boy is trying to buy a pajama," he extemporized glibly, "but he sleeps only in the tops. He is thrifty so he insists on buying ONLY the tops. The clerk says he must buy the pants too. It looks like a catastrophe. Then the girl comes into the shop and buys the pants because she sleeps only in the pants." Ernst Lubitsch and Charles Brackett were enchanted with this idea. Months later, they discovered that Billy Wilder himself was a pajama tops-only sleeper and had been contemplating this idea for months, waiting for a chance to use it in a comedy.
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