Trouble in Paradise
Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones, Ernst Lubitsch
Producer: Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones
Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall. Based on the 1931 play The Honest Finder (A Becsületes Megtaláló) by Hungarian playwright Aladár László, the lead characters are a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket who join forces to con a beautiful woman who is the owner of a perfume company.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Working titles for Trouble in Paradise included The Honest Finder, Thieves and Lovers, and The Golden Widow; the latter was publicly announced to be the intended release title.
- As with all the Lubitsch-Raphaelson collaborations, Lubitsch contributed to the writing and Raphaelson contributed ideas to the directing.
- Lubitsch did not receive screen credit for his writing, and Grover Jones, who was credited with the adaptation, did not contribute significantly: although he was in the room, his credit was based on a contractual obligation, and he did little more than tell stories.
Previous Showings
13 Runs • 9 Festivals
9,904 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (December 3, 1932)
Original Run: December 3, 1932 (Saturday)
All runs on record (13):
- December 3, 1932 (Saturday)Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
- February 20 - 23, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ Queen Christina, Anna Karenina, We Live Again, Design for Living
- February 15 - 18, 1992 · 1,462 ticketsw/ The Man I Killed (Broken Lullaby)
- March 4 - 9, 1995 · 1,631 ticketsw/ The Gay Divorcee
- November 11 - 13, 1998 · 481 ticketsRomantic Comedy Seriesw/ Monte Carlo
- October 16 - 19, 1999 · 1,383 ticketsHoliday 1999w/ To Be or Not to Be
- November 3 - 4, 2004 · 590 ticketsBrandow/ The Gay Divorcee
- May 15 - 18, 2010 · 1,057 ticketsSpring 2010w/ Love Me Tonight
- March 3 - 5, 2012 · 803 ticketsWinter 2012w/ One Hour with You
- April 22 - 23, 2015 · 338 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ We Live Again
- February 23 - 24, 2017 · 443 ticketsBritish and Lubitschw/ One Hour with You
- March 24 - 25, 2018 · 769 ticketsParamount Pictures That played at the Stanford Theatre From 1930 to 1935w/ Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
- March 15 - 16, 2025 · 947 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ Design for Living