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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The film in which Brackett and Wilder supposedly perfected the Hollywood ploy of 'meeting cute' with a Riviera department store scene where Coop wants to buy pyjama tops and Colbert the bottoms. Otherwise a sporadically funny, somewhat contrived comedy, with Lubitsch softening the script's acidity (thereby giving the wrong sort of discomfort to the closing scenes in a lunatic asylum), and Cooper miscast as a playboy millionaire who has divorced seven wives and has a comeuppance coming up from the eighth.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, David Niven, Edward Everett Horton, Elizabeth Patterson, Herman Bing, Franklin Pangborn full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 85 mins
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