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Design for living [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Ernst Lubitsch.

Criterion Collection, c2011.

Americans -- France -- Paris -- Drama.

English drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.

Bohemianism -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 592.

Alternate title:

Noël Coward's Design for living [videorecording (DVD)]

The clerk [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Two-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (91 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + booklet (ill. ; 19 cm.).

From the play by Noël Coward.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933.

Special features: Disc 1: New, high-definition digital restoration ; "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 ; plus: a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan.

1.33:1 aspect ratio.

English (SDH) subtitles for the hearing impaired.

Universal ; a Paramount Picture presents an Ernest Lubitsch production ; produced by Ernest Lubitsch ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch ; screenplay by Ben Hecht.

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

"Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play 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 from a play by Noël Coward, and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A risqué relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist (Hopkins) unable-or unwilling-to choose between the equally dashing painter (Cooper) and playwright (March) she meets on a train en route to the City of Light. Design For Living is Lubitsch at his most adroit, an entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring three stars at the height of their allure."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973. Design for living.

Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947.

March, Fredric, 1897-1975.

Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961.

Hopkins, Miriam, 1902-1972.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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