A sporadically funny, somewhat contrived comedy.
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06/24/06
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:2
Rotten:4
Average Rating:4.8/10
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.... [More]
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, David Niven, Edward Everett Horton
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Reviews for Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1 - 7 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticFluffy, but fun and worth watching for the great Horton as Colbert's financially embarrassed father.
05/24/03
Top CriticLubitsch's classicism gets continually cracked by the unruliness of the screwball genre and by the caustic thrust of the Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett screenplay
11/15/09
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03/26/09
Top CriticWilders 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.
08/14/07
Top CriticAlthough 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.
03/25/06
Top CriticErnst Lubitsch seems to be resting on his cliches in this atypically inelegant 1938 comedy.
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