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Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Writers:
Charles Brackett (screenplay) and
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Release Date:
18 March 1938 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
He married in haste and repeated in pleasure!
Plot:
US multi-millionaire Michael Barndon marries his eight wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Claudette Colbert ... Nicole De Loiselle

Gary Cooper ... Michael Brandon

Edward Everett Horton ... The Marquis De Loiselle

David Niven ... Albert De Regnier
Elizabeth Patterson ... Aunt Hedwige
Herman Bing ... Monsieur Pepinard
Warren Hymer ... Kid Mulligan
Franklin Pangborn ... Assistant Hotel Manager
Armand Cortes ... Assistant Hotel Manager
Rolfe Sedan ... Floorwalker
Lawrence Grant ... Professor Urganzeff
Lionel Pape ... Monsieur Potin
Tyler Brooke ... Clerk
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Hungary:14 | USA:Approved (PCA #3985) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating) | Finland:K-16
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

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Trivia:
Many people who are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Tom Ricketts (Uncle Andre), James Dime (Prizefighter), Eugene Borden (Waiter on Stairs), Jean De Briac (Waiter in Corridor), Sheila Darcy (Maid), Alphonse Martell (Hotel Employee), Paul Gustine (Man in Steamship Office), Hooper Atchley (Excited Passenger), Ellen Drew (Secretary) and Henry Roquemore (Fat Man). more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When Nicole shuts the door to her part of the apartment to keep Michael out, you can hear her locking it. But throughout the film there is no keyhole or lock visible on either side of her door. more
Quotes:
Nicole de Loiselle: I wish someone would tell you what I really think of you. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Holiday (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Wedding March more

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Shaving A Bluebeard, 23 September 2006
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Years before pre-nuptial agreements became a regular thing, Ernest Lubitsch made a screen comedy on which they are the basis. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife involves Gary Cooper as a multi-millionaire living on the French Riviera who's been married seven times and now marries Claudette Colbert for number eight. But Cooper's a good sport about it, he always settles with his ex-wives for a $50,000.00 a year as per an agreement they sign before marrying him. Sounds like what we now call a pre-nuptial agreement.

Of course Claudette wants a lot more than that and she feels Cooper takes an entirely too business like approach to marriage. She'd like the real deal and is willing to go some considerable lengths to get it.

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife has some really funny moments, the original meeting of Cooper and Colbert in a men's store where Cooper is insisting he wants only pajama tops and Colbert looking for only bottoms. And of course my favorite is Colbert trailing and blackmailing the detective Cooper sends to spy on her. Herman Bing has the best supporting role in the film as that selfsame, flustered detective.

I've often wondered how back in the day Hollywood could get away with casting so many people who are non-French in a film like this. Of course Cooper is an American and Colbert of the cast is the only one actually of French background. Though David Niven is charming as always, having him be a Frenchman is ludicrous, he is sooooooo British.

Nevertheless Bluebeard's Eighth Wife is an enjoyable film and a great example of what was called 'the Lubitsch touch' back in the day.

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