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Post by coopfan on May 10, 2007 17:00:30 GMT -5
Nicole De Loiselle meets American millionaire Michael Brandon while shopping in a store on the French Riviera. She buys the bottoms and he buys the tops of the same suit of pajamas, while she gives him tips on how to cure insomnia by spelling Czechoslovakia backwards. Michael continues to have insomnia, however, and demands to change his suite at the hotel. The managers show him a room but the Marquis De Loiselle is residing there. The marquis tries to convince Michael to go in on a deal with him, but Michael refuses until he recognizes the pajama bottoms and the marquis identifies himself as Nicole's father. Michael agrees to buy a Louis XIV bathtub from the penniless marquis as a gesture of good will and informs the marquis he wishes to marry his daughter. Michael later proposes to Nicole while she is at the beach with her friend Albert De Regnier, but she refuses because he seems arrogant. Michael then sends an apology and an invitation to dinner and they fall in love that evening. At her engagement party, however, Nicole discovers that Michael had been married seven times previously, and each time had arranged a $50,000 per year divorce settlement in a pre-nuptial agreement. Nicole furiously calls off the wedding, but then agrees to marry for a $100,000 settlement. They never consummate the marriage and live in separate rooms, despite attempts by Michael to bridge the gap. Nicole finally wears down Michael's resistance by pretending to have an affair with Albert, and Michael agrees to a divorce. He commits himself to a sanitarium because Nicole completely broke his spirit, but with their newfound wealth, the marquis buys the sanitarium and Nicole pledges her love to Michael.
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on May 10, 2007 17:06:46 GMT -5
This is one of my absolute favorite comedies! Gary and Claudette are wonderful together... lol, And I've NEVER seen David Niven so...nerdy! He was wonderful as well. Gosh, it's just the perfect comedy  |
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Post by coopfan on May 10, 2007 19:21:33 GMT -5
Yes I really like this one and Casanova Brown, which is also a comedy.
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on May 10, 2007 19:22:10 GMT -5
I can't wait to see that one! I'll watch it to-night! |
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Post by senta on Jan 19, 2008 13:21:26 GMT -5
I like Desire more, but this is also a great comedy. Only I don't like then woman takes over a man - something unnatural.
By the way have anybody read Niven's memorise - I heard he writes about Coop too n his two books. I haven't read them myself.
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Post by CoopFanDan on Apr 13, 2008 0:14:04 GMT -5
A recent tcm update to the schedule now shows that BBEW will now be airing on tcm I think for the first time since they don't ussually show old Paramount titles now owned by Universial:
Program Title: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
A millionaire who's been married seven times courts wife number eight.
CAST: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton.
DIR: Ernst Lubitsch.
Comedy. BW 85 mins.
PLAYING ON TCM: 04/19/2008 12:00:00 PM
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Apr 13, 2008 10:18:11 GMT -5
Hiya Dan! Gosh it's good to see you around here again Thanks for the info! That reminds me: I need to update the "Gary Information" category  |
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Post by cappuccino on Oct 10, 2011 16:59:26 GMT -5
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Oct 25, 2011 11:57:04 GMT -5
I looooooved this movie; it was so cooky and silly. I especially loved the part with the pajamas and the part where he sat in the "wash-basin" and broke it.  David Niven was a good little addition to the film, too. I think everyone played their characters perfectly...'specially Gary.  |
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