Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Noel Coward's Design for living [videorecording] / a Paramount Picture ; an Ernest Lubitsch production ; director, Ernst Lubitsch ; screenplay, Ben Hecht.

Edition:

Two-DVD special ed.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2011.

Description:

2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"A trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult 'gentleman's' agreement, in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht (Notorious) from a play. A risque relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist unable, or unwilling, to choose between the equally dashing painter and playwright she meets on a train en route to the City of Light."

Series:

Criterion collection ; 592.

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 592.

Subjects:

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973 -- Film adaptations.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.

Americans -- France -- Drama.

Friendship -- Drama.

Romantic comedy films.

Film adaptations.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947.

Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964.

March, Fredric, 1897-1975.

Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961.

Hopkins, Miriam, 1902-1972.

Horton, Edward Everett.

Pangborn, Franklyn, 1889-1958.

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Design for living.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Paramount Pictures, Inc.

Other Title:

Design for living.

Clerk.

Notes:

Based on the play by Noël Coward.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933.

Special features: "The clerk," starring Charles Laughton, director Ernst Lubitsch's segment of the 1932 omnibus film "If I had a million" ; selected-scene commentary by film scholar William Paul ; British television production of the play "Design for living" from 1964, introduced on camera by playwright Noël Coward ; new interview with film scholar and screenwriter Joseph McBride on Lubitsch and screenwriter Ben Hecht's adaptation of the Coward play ; a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan.

Photography, Victor Milner; editor, Frances Marsh; original music, John Leipold.

Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn.

DVD; Dolby Digital mono.; region 1, NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.

Optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ISBN:

9781604655254

1604655259

Publisher Number:

CC2095D

Other Number:

755112671

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

314262

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Design f

Medium:

[videorecording]