Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938 Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
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He married in haste and repeated in pleasure!
Farce about a millionaire banker and his wife. She teaches him a salutary lesson.
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A good Lubitsch but not a great Lubitsch. Mostly funny, despite the anti-chemistry between Colbert and Cooper. Opening sequence featuring them trying to buy pajamas is a classic. One thing of note: I have never heard a theater crowd gasp and groan in unison as perfectly as when Cooper slaps Colbert. When she immediately slaps him right back, there were a few relieved sighs.
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I've been so caught up in re-watching all the seasons of "Buffy" that I haven't had time for movies lately. As much as I love "Buffy" (and believe me, I DO!), it was so nice to get back to my dearest love, classic films. And this was a great one!
I love Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper and they were adorable together in this movie. And Edward Everett Horton was even funnier than usual. It was also great to see a young David Niven. I heart pretty much anything Ernst Lubitsch does and this was definitely no exception!
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife marks the end of my Lubitsch month. The script is written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, and there is a lot of Wilder in this film. The opening scene is pure Wilder. Cooper plays a millionaire who wants to buy pajamas but only the top part since he only likes to sleep in the tops. He is told that he needs to buy the bottoms also. Allowing people to buy only what they use would be Communism! Well, Claudette Colbert saves the day by offering to buy the other half. Cooper falls in love and decides to buy his (to be) 8th wife, at what ever cost. Colbert's father is broke and so is Colbert so…
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Just about as charming, witty, smart, inventive and funny as you'd expect from a film written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert are terrific as two lovers who get married but immediately separate after Colbert learns of Cooper's past indiscretions. Before marrying Colbert insists on a clause entitling her to $150,000 a year, so the film becomes a game of Colbert trying to get a divorce and Cooper trying to reconcile the marriage. Comic highlights include the topic of pajama pants going right up top to a clothing store's president, a young David Niven typing a letter V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y and Gary Cooper getting fired up by reading "The Taming of the Shrew". That's not counting the almost endless stream of witty dialogue in the picture of which there is far too much to mention in a short review.
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Film #58 of The December Project.
STAIRS. Right from the opening scene.
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A good Lubitsch but not a great Lubitsch. Mostly funny, despite the anti-chemistry between Colbert and Cooper. Opening sequence featuring them trying to buy pajamas is a classic. One thing of note: I have never heard a theater crowd gasp and groan in unison as perfectly as when Cooper slaps Colbert. When she immediately slaps him right back, there were a few relieved sighs.
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Until BALL OF FIRE I hadn't realised how great Gary Cooper was for screwball comedy. He proves it again in BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE. Hilarious & highly recommended. #see
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Simple, Fast and Funny!
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Frickin' hilarious and brilliant. Ranks up there with Lubitsch's best stuff.