Fluffy, but fun and worth watching for the great Horton as Colbert's financially embarrassed father.
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:2
Rotten:4
Average Rating:4.8/10
Synopsis: Mademoiselle Nicole (Colbert), the daughter of a destitute aristocrat on the French Riviera lands a charming American millionaire (Cooper) only to find he has been married seven times previously.... Mademoiselle Nicole (Colbert), the daughter of a destitute aristocrat on the French Riviera lands a charming American millionaire (Cooper) only to find he has been married seven times previously. Determined to teach him a lesson about fidelity, Nicole is going to make sure that there will be no number nine. So begins a battle of the sexes as the wily new bride sets out to tame her Bluebeard and he tries his best to play the game his way. [More]
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, David Niven, Edward Everett Horton
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, David Niven, Edward Everett Horton, Elizabeth Patterson, Herman Bing, Warren Hymer, Franklin Pangborn, Charles Halton
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Composer: Werner Richard Heymann, Frederick Hollander
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
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Reviews for Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Lubitsch's classicism gets continually cracked by the unruliness of the screwball genre and by the caustic thrust of the Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett screenplay
Wilders and Brackett's screenplay has some laughs, and Lubitsch knows how to get the most out of the least, but this movie was a mistake to make in the first place.
Ernst Lubitsch seems to be resting on his cliches in this atypically inelegant 1938 comedy.
Although it's not a bad comedy by our current depressed standards, it has the dickens of a time trying to pass off Gary Cooper as a multi-marrying millionaire.
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