Rotten
Although it's not a bad comedy by our current depressed standards, it has the dickens of a time trying to pass off Gary Cooper as a multi-marrying millionaire.
Frank S. Nugent, New York Times
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
He married in haste and repeated with pleasure!
1938 · 1h 25m · Approved
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Ernst Lubitsch
Overview
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
Director and cast
- Ernst Lubitsch Director
- Claudette Colbert as Nicole De Loiselle
- Gary Cooper as Michael Brandon
- Edward Everett Horton as Marquis De Loiselle
- David Niven as Albert De Regnier
- Elizabeth Patterson as Aunt Hedwige
- Herman Bing as Monsieur Pepinard
- Warren Hymer as Kid Mulligan
- Franklin Pangborn as Assistant Hotel Manager
- Armand Cortes as Assistant Hotel Manager
- Rolfe Sedan as Floorwalker
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
46%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Ernst Lubitsch seems to be resting on his cliches in this atypically inelegant 1938 comedy.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
A sporadically funny, somewhat contrived comedy.
Time Out
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