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Design for living [videorecording] / Universal ; a Paramount Picture presents an Ernest Lubitsch production ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch ; screen play by Ben Hecht.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2095D | Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 592.Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2011.Edition: Two-DVD special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (ill. ; 19 cm.)ISBN:
  • 9781604655254
  • 1604655259
Other title:
  • Noel Coward's Design for living
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .D47 2011
Production credits:
  • Photographed by Victor Milner ; editor, Frances Marsh ; original music, John Leipold ; art director, Hans Dreier ; costume design, Travis Banton.
Cast: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn, Isabel Jewell, Jane Darwell, Wyndham Standing.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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Media, Restricted use collection Media, Restricted use collection Albright College Library CCM--Ask at Reference Desk DVD DVD 791.4372 D457 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 31856002361986
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Based on the play by Noël Coward.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933.

Special features: Disc 1. "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. Disc 2. "Joseph McBride: the screenplay" film historian and screenwriter Joseph McBride discusses Coward, the adaptation, and Hecht's career; "Play of the week: a choice of Coward" British television production of the play "Design for living" from 1964, introduced on camera by playwright Noël Coward. Booklet: "It takes three" essay by film critic Kim Morgan.

Photographed by Victor Milner ; editor, Frances Marsh ; original music, John Leipold ; art director, Hans Dreier ; costume design, Travis Banton.

Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn, Isabel Jewell, Jane Darwell, Wyndham Standing.

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.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

Optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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