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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Comedy · Romance · 1938

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.

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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

“He married in haste and repeated with pleasure!”

1938 Comedy · Romance 1h 25m

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7.0 / 10

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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.

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Names above the title

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Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Written by

Charles Brackett · Billy Wilder

Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert

Nicole De Loiselle

Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

Michael Brandon

Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

Marquis De Loiselle

David Niven

David Niven

Albert De Regnier

Elizabeth Patterson

Elizabeth Patterson

Aunt Hedwige

Herman Bing

Herman Bing

Monsieur Pepinard

Warren Hymer

Warren Hymer

Kid Mulligan

Court is in session

Put Bluebeard's Eighth Wife on trial.

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The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.