Design for Living
Starring: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
Director: Ernst Lubitsch, Ben Hecht
Writer: Ben Hecht, Noël Coward
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
Design for Living is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, based on the 1932 play of the same name by Noël Coward. Starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins, the film is about a woman who cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Trivia
- Based on Design for Living (1932 play written by Noël Coward).
- In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Coward wrote a succession of popular hit plays.
- On Broadway, Design for Living was a popular and critical hit starring Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and Coward, and its risqué ménage-à-trois theme made it controversial.
- Design for Living was one of more than a dozen of Coward's plays made into feature films.
Previous Showings
7 Runs • 3 Festivals
3,061 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (January 7, 1934)
Original Run: January 7, 1934 (Sunday - Tuesday)
All runs on record (7):
- January 7, 1934 (Sunday - Tuesday)Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
- February 20 - 21, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ Queen Christina, Anna Karenina, We Live Again, Trouble in Paradise
- February 13 - 14, 1992 · 341 ticketsw/ Monte Carlo
- April 13 - 15, 1994 · 892 ticketsw/ Private Lives
- April 29 - 30, 2015 · 248 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ Becky Sharp
- March 4 - 5, 2017 · 633 ticketsBritish and Lubitschw/ The Merry Widow
- March 15 - 16, 2025 · 947 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ Trouble in Paradise