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Design for Living
Directed by
Ernst Lubitsch
Not Rated
1933
90m
Comedy
,
Romance
,
and more
7.4
76%
81%
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A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
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Cast of Design for Living
Fredric March
Tom Chambers
Miriam Hopkins
Gilda Farrell
Gary Cooper
George Curtis
Edward Everett Horton
Max Plunkett
Franklin Pangborn
Mr. Douglas
Isabel Jewell
Plunkett's Stenographer
Jane Darwell
Curtis' Housekeeper
Wyndham Standing
Max's Butler
Cosmo Kyrle Bellew
Man (uncredited)
Lionel Belmore
Theatre Patron (uncredited)
Thomas Braidon
Douglas' Second Manager (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
Émile Chautard
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Mathilde Comont
Heavy Woman (uncredited)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Cafe Proprietress (uncredited)
James Donlan
Fat Man with Ring (uncredited)
Harry Dunkinson
Mr. Egelbauer (uncredited)
Estelle Etterre
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Helena Phillips Evans
Mrs. Egelbauer (uncredited)
Charles K. French
Theatre Patron (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
Woman on Staircase (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Englishman at Train (uncredited)
Armand Kaliz
Mr. Burton (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Theatre Patron (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer
Theatre Patron (uncredited)
George Savidan
Boy (uncredited)
Rolfe Sedan
Bed Salesman (uncredited)
Vernon Steele
Douglas' First Manager (uncredited)
Mrs. Treboal
Gilda's Landlady (uncredited)
Barry Winton
Man (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Party Guest (uncredited)
William Worthington
Theatre Patron (uncredited)
Scotty Mattraw
Man Laughing in Audience (uncredited)
Ernst Lubitsch
Director / Producer
Ben Hecht
Writer
Noël Coward
Writer
Design for Living Ratings & Reviews
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Harold V. Cohen
All this is handled in Mr. Lubitsch's most delightful manner.
Photoplay
Shadow Stage
Plenty of excitement, excellent acting and sparkle.
Vanity Fair
Helen Brown Norden
The general effect is as if they suddenly realized that they're in a Noel Coward drama, and are stymied by the thought.
Vanity Fair
Pare Lorentz
Ben Hecht moved Noel Coward's hoys from London to Chicago with fair results.
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
The "Lubitsch Touch," indeed: edged and between the ribs before you know it's being brandished.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
It isn't [Lubitsch's] fleetest work, or most sustained, but it has moments of unbridled genius.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
The dialogue is sharp without seeming too impeccably perfect to be real human speech.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Even when Lubitsch filmed a play by Noel Coward, he still made it his own. Design for Living doesn't feel like a celebrated play; it feels like a Lubitsch movie.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
beneath the sublime surface of Lubitsch's best films beats a human heart full of recognizable desires, fears, flaws, and longings, which is precisely what sets his work apart from its sleazier, more mundane counterparts
Scene-Stealers.com
Eric Melin
A daring movie that satirizes sexual mores and heaps irony upon irony. If Hollywood tried to remake this movie today, they would probably take the mnage trois set-up and strip away all the depth.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An elegant romantic farce that seems heavy-handed when it's meant to be lighthearted.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
For Lubitsch, the film would mark the end of his most creative period at Paramount (1929-1933) -- and a fine final bow it is.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
Welcome to bohemia!
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Well, maybe it is a little lumpy for Lubitsch, but I think the film more than holds its own.
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