Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Original title

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 107 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy American man falls for a French woman and wants to marry her. She agrees but plans to tame his playboy ways.

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What happens

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife is a 1938 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper. The film is based on the 1921 French play La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleue by Alfred Savoir and the English translation of the play by Charlton Andrews. The screenplay was the first of many collaborations between Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. The film is a remake of the 1923 silent version directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson. After Bluebeard's Eighth Wife underperformed at the box office, Paramount Pictures released Lubitsch to go to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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