| | | An All-Star Sparkling Romantic Comedy.
Features: DVD, English, French, Dolby, Digital Audio
A showgirl poses as a "countess" and lives it up with the rich as she hides her true identity.
"...a superbly malicious script by Brackett and Wilder, gorgeous sets and camerawork, and a matchless cast." Derek Adams, Time Out
"An extremely witty, well-paced comedy which plays beautifully today." TV Guide's Movie Guide
Editor's Note
A Parisian dancer (Colbert) works her way into French high society by posing as a Hungarian countess. Asked by a wealthy noble to lure a gigolo away from his wife, she soon is given some nice rewards, all the while loved from afar by a cab driver who knows her true identity.
Plot Summary
Claudette Colbert heads a star-studded cast in this frothy romantic comedy.| Showgirl Eve Peabody finds herself alone in Paris until she meets Tibor Czerny, a handsome cabbie. She forgoes a potential fling with Tibor in order to take a curious job for a wealthy man, Georges Flammarion. | Given a lavish wardrobe and a penthouse, Eve is assigned the task of winning the affections of Jacques Picotn, a lady-killer who had previously been wooing Mrs. Flammarion.| Eventually, this cast of colorful characters travels to Versailles, where Georges owns a chateau. Now Eve has a chance to show her dancing talents, and Georges and his wife have an opportunity to rekindle the embers of their marriage.| One thing Eve has not counted on, however, is the taxi driver who has been saving his heart just for her!
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Exclusive Introduction By Turner Classic Movies Host & Film Historian Robert Osborne | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 4/22/2008 |
| Running Time: 95 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1939 | | Catalog ID: 61033129 | | UPC: 00025193312921 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew | Claudette Colbert | | Don Ameche | | John Barrymore | | Mary Astor | | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. - Producer | | Billy Wilder - Screenplay | | Charles Brackett - Screenplay | | Charles Lang - Cinematographer | | Doane Harrison - Editor | | Edwin Justus Mayer - Based On Story By | | Franz Schulz - Based On Story By | | Frederick Hollander - Original Music By | | Hans Dreier - Art Director | | Mitchell Leisen - Director | | Robert Usher - Art Director |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...Classic farce..." -- Rating: B 08/09/1996 p.68USA Today
"...John Barrymore paces the cast in laughs..." 03/31/1995 p.3D Variety 7 of 10
Story [from one by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz] is light, but with a good share of humorous moments, many of them of the screwball variety. It's a slender thread, however, on which to tie series of incidents in adventures of a stranded showgirl in Paris...After a flirtation with Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert crashes a musicale and poses as a countess. This leads to job for John Barrymore, in which she is to attract the amorous attentions of Francis Lederer away from Barrymore's wife, Mary Astor. For her assignment, Colbert is provided with elaborate wardrobe and a hotel suite...Direction by Mitchell Leisen is generally satisfactory, although picture is slow in getting under way and has several spots that could be tightened. Editing shows sketchiness in several instances.
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