Design for Living
- Director: Ernst Lubitsch
- Writer: Noël Coward, Ben Hecht, Samuel Hoffenstein
- Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
CGiii Comment
"Now! distracting drama of a girl who loved two men...completely...simultaneously! (Print Ad- Rochester Times-Union, ((Rochester, NY)) 1 March 1934)"
Two Americans sharing a flat in Paris, playwright Tom Chambers and painter George Curtis, fall for free-spirited Gilda Farrell. When she can't make up her mind which one of them she prefers, she proposes a "gentleman's agreement": She will move in with them as a friend and critic of their work, but they will never have sex. But when Tom goes to London to supervise a production of one of his plays, leaving Gilda alone with George, how long will their gentleman's agreement last?
Trailer...
Cast & Characters
Fredric March (as Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers)
Gary Cooper (as George Curtis)
Miriam Hopkins (as Gilda Farrell)
Edward Everett Horton (as Max Plunkett)
Franklin Pangborn (as Mr. Douglas, Theatrical Producer)
Isabel Jewell (as Plunkett's Stenographer)
Jane Darwell (as Curtis' Housekeeper)
Wyndham Standing (as Max's Butler)
Cosmo Kyrle Bellew (as Man (uncredited))
Lionel Belmore (as Theatre Patron (uncredited))
Thomas Braidon (as Douglas' Second Manager (uncredited))
Nora Cecil (as Tom's Secretary (uncredited))
Emile Chautard (as Train Conductor (uncredited))
Mathilde Comont (as Heavy Woman (uncredited))
Adrienne D'Ambricourt (as Cafe Proprietress (uncredited))
James Donlan (as Fat Man with Ring (uncredited))
Harry Dunkinson (as Mr. Egelbauer (uncredited))
Estelle Etterre (as Woman in audience (uncredited))
Helena Phillips Evans (as Mrs. Egelbauer (uncredited))
Charles K. French (as Theatre Patron (uncredited))
Mary Gordon (as Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited))
Grace Hayle (as Woman on Staircase (uncredited))
Olaf Hytten (as Englishman at Train (uncredited))
Armand Kaliz (as Mr. Burton (uncredited))
Colin Kenny (as Theatre Patron (uncredited))