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Noel Coward's Design for living / a Paramount Picture ; an Ernest Lubitsch production ; director, Ernst Lubitsch.

Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947 (producer,, director.). Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 (screenwriter.). March, Fredric, 1897-1975 (actor.). Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961 (actor.). Hopkins, Miriam, 1902-1972 (actor.). Horton, Edward Everett, (actor.). Coward, Noel, 1899-1973 Design for living. (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm) (Added Author). Paramount Pictures, Inc. (Added Author). Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn, Isabel Jewll, Jane Darwell. (Cast).

Summary:

"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. A risque relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist unable, or unwilling, to choose between the equally dashing painter and playwright she meets on a train en route to the City of Light."

Record details

ISBN: 9781604655254
ISBN: 1604655259
Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet.
Edition: [Standard format], Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Based on the play by Noël Coward. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933. Special features: "The clerk," starring Charles Laughton, director Ernst Lubitsch's segment of the 1932 omnibus film "If I had a million" ; selected-scene commentary by film scholar William Paul ; British television production of the play "Design for living" from 1964, introduced on camera by playwright Noël Coward ; new interview with film scholar and screenwriter Joseph McBride on Lubitsch and screenwriter Ben Hecht's adaptation of the Coward play ; a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Photography, Victor Milner.
Participant or Performer Note:	Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn, Isabel Jewll, Jane Darwell.
System Details Note:	DVD; Dolby Digital mono.; region 1, NTSC.
Language Note:	Optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.