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Director:
Writers:
Noel Coward (play)
Ben Hecht (screenplay)
Release Date:
29 December 1933 (USA) more
Plot:
Two Americans sharing a flat in Paris, playwright Tom Chambers and painter George Curtis, fall for free-spirited Gilda Farrell... more | add synopsis
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Easy Virtue Blu-ray Review
(From Collider.com. 4 October 2009, 8:57 AM, PDT)
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Chic, sexy, and swell more (22 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Fredric March | ... | Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers |
 | Gary Cooper | ... | George Curtis |
 | Miriam Hopkins | ... | Gilda Farrell |
 | Edward Everett Horton | ... | Max Plunkett |
| Franklin Pangborn | ... | Mr. Douglas, Theatrical Producer |
| Isabel Jewell | ... | Plunkett's Stenographer |
| Jane Darwell | ... | Curtis' Housekeeper |
| Wyndham Standing | ... | Max's Butler |
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Runtime:
91 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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Portugal:M/12 | USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 24 January 1933 and had 135 perfomancs. The 3 leads were played Noel Coward, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. There were 2 Broadway revivals, the last in 2001. more
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Crew or equipment visible: Camera shadow visible on window frame as Gilda sets the table. more
Quotes:
Max Plunkett:
Do you love me?
Gilda Farrell:
Oh, Max, people should not ask that question on their wedding night. It's either too late or too early.
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Referenced in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) (TV) more
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Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op.64 more
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I'm not a big fan of the Lubitsch Touch. This, which I hadn't seen in 20 years, I think is my favorite.
The recent Broadway revival of the Noel Coward play, which was supposedly very ooh-la-la and daring, was a bust. Interminable and misguided.
One problem was that the female lead was made very cold. In the movie, Miriam Hopkins is just right: pretty, seductive, witty.
Gary Cooper is sublime. He was a great comedian -- equally good in "Desire," the delightful movie with Dietrich that Lubitsch produced and supposedly had a big hand in directing. Too bad he changed gears so drastically and became the strong, silent Western hero he's known for today (if he's known at all, alas.)
Fredric March was a very fine actor but not a comedian. He is the weakest link; but he works well in the ensemble.
Edward Everett Horton is funny, as always.
It really works, and is as racy today as it must have been when it came out.