A sporadically funny, somewhat contrived comedy.
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:1
Rotten:4
Average Rating:4.3/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Fluffy, but fun and worth watching for the great Horton as Colbert's financially embarrassed father.
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.
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.
Ernst Lubitsch seems to be resting on his cliches in this atypically inelegant 1938 comedy.
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