Sérénade à trois

Original title: Design for Living

1933
12
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

8.2K

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Romantic Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy Mystery Romance

A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

8.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins total

Man
(uncredited)

Lionel Belmore

Theatre Patron
(uncredited)

Thomas Braidon

Douglas' Second Manager
(uncredited)

Nora Cecil

Tom's Secretary
(uncredited)

Emile Chautard

Train Conductor
(uncredited)

Mathilde Comont

Heavy Woman
(uncredited)

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Cafe Proprietress
(uncredited)

James Donlan

Fat Man with Ring
(uncredited)

Harry Dunkinson

Mr. Egelbauer
(uncredited)

Estelle Etterre

Woman in audience
(uncredited)

Director
- Ernst Lubitsch
Writers
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Trivia
Considerable censorship difficulties arose because of sexual discussions and innuendos, although the Hays Office eventually approved the film for release. However, the film was banned by the Legion of Decency and was refused a certificate for re-release by censor Joseph Breen in 1934 when the Production Code was more rigorously enforced.

Goofs
Camera shadow visible on window frame as Gilda sets the table.

Quotes
Max Plunkett: Immorality may be fun, but it isn't fun enough to take the place of one hundred percent virtue and three square meals a day.

Connections
Featured in Complicated Women (2003)

Soundtracks
The Star Spangled Banner
(1814) (uncredited)
Music by John Stafford Smith
Hummed by Gary Cooper and Fredric March

User reviews66

Featured review

9/10

Pre Code Elegance

Delightful even if more Ben Hecht than Noel Coward. The "menage a trois" has real brains, wit and magic. All due to the sensational chemistry between Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and, of course, the unmistakable Lubitch touch. I was going to say that the film seems written today but the sad truth is there is nobody today that could write with this extraordinary elegance. Frediric March is masculine and volcanic, Gary Cooper feminine and irresistible and Miriam Hopkins, a sensational modern comedienne. As if this wasn't enough, Edward Everett Horton as Mr Wrong. The scene in which Hopkins compares Cooper and March to hats is one of my all time favorites.