Design for Living

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Steve D Unless it shocks you it doesn't really work. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 12/26/23 Full Review Audience Member In this surprisingly risque film made before the Hays code, two men and a woman share an apartment in Paris and talk openly about sex. Lubitsch direction is excellent. March is wonderful as a struggling playwright. Hopkins has one of her best roles as a free loving woman who loves two men but marries a third. Cooper gives a fine comedic performance as a hot tempered artist. There's no music which could make things seem static but Lubitsch keeps it moving at a good pace. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Easy watching movie. Hopkins plays a character that is indecisive that is intertwined between 2 friends and her boss, all 3 of which are platonic/sexual love interest. Good scenery within Paris, glamour clothes, broken down shack apartment, and train rides Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member A naughty little pre-code Hollywood gem that seems even a bit risky looking back at it today. Miriam Hopkins falls for best friends Fredric March and Gary Cooper. She can't decide which one to pick, so she moves in with both of them. The film doesn't even try to cover up that she is sleeping with them both. Things seem okay for awhile, but pretty soon another guy comes along and she reels him in. The obvious inspiration for Gregg Araki's 1999 film "Splendor". Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review william k Despite censorship and unusual casting the is still an amazingly open-minded and entertaining ménage à trois comedy, made with Ernst Lubitsch's sure hand for such material. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Not too funny and not believable enough to invest in, you can still enjoy the farce these three think they're putting over on us. The dialogue is, at times, witty, which aligns with March but is a strain with Cooper. Hopkins holds it together, while Horton really isn't needed at all. Script problems abound, but the pre-code possibilities of making this into something much better than it is are endless. Worth a watch. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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