Blaubarts achte Frau

Originaltitel: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

1938
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1 Std. 25 Min.

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Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert in Blaubarts achte Frau (1938)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAfter learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

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7,2/10

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Wissenswertes
This was the first collaboration of director Ernst Lubitsch with writers Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. At their first production meeting, Lubitsch posed this question: "How do the boy and girl get together?". Wilder promptly suggested that the opening scene should be in the men's shop of a department store. "The boy is trying to buy a pajama," he extemporized, "but he sleeps only in the tops. He is thrifty so he insists on buying ONLY the tops. The clerk says he must buy the pants, too. It looks like a catastrophe. Then the girl comes into the shop and buys the pants because she sleeps only in the pants." Lubitsch and Brackett were enchanted with this idea. Months later, they discovered that Wilder himself was a pajama tops-only sleeper and had been contemplating this idea for months, waiting for a chance to use it in a comedy.

Patzer
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.

Zitate
Nicole de Loiselle: [sarcastically] Mr. Brandon, you're terrific. You're gigantic! You're - you're breathtaking. I wish someone would tell you what I really think of you.

Verbindungen
Featured in Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema: The Romcom (2018)

Soundtracks
Here Comes Cookie
(1935) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Mack Gordon
Performed by Gary Cooper (vocal and piano)

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7/10

Shaving A Bluebeard

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.