Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
- Starring:
- Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ernst Lubitsch
Synopsis of Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
The great Ernst Lubitsch directed this farce (written by Charles M. Brackett and Billy Wilder) about a free-wheeling millionaire, Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper), who enjoys getting married but has a hard time staying married: he's had seven wives and is looking for number eight. He thinks he may have found her in the person of Nicole de Loiselle (Claudette Colbert), whom he meets in a shop on the French Riviera. Unfortunately for Michael, Nicole doesn't like him very much and keeps rebuffing his advances, even though most women would be only too happy to marry him for his money. For just that reason, Nicole's father (Edward Everett Horton), a financially embarrassed French nobleman, strongly suggests that matrimony with Michael would be a good idea, especially since Michael doesn't want to take no for an answer. Nicole eventually relents and weds Michael, but when she tries to get him to change a few of his habits during the honeymoon, he makes plans to divorce her. But Nicole has finally decided that she loves Michael after all, and, as he tries to flee from her, she gives chase, determined to win his heart once and for all. The same story was previously filmed as a silent picture in 1923. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Complete Cast of Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
- Claudette Colbert - Nicole de Loiselle
- Edward Everett Horton - Marquis de Loiselle
- Elizabeth Patterson - Aunt Hedwige
- Franklin Pangborn - Asst. Hotel Manager
- Lawrence Grant - Prof. Urganzeff
- Tyler Brooke - Clerk
- Barlowe Borland - Uncle Fernandel
- Paula DeCardo - Bit part
- Alphonse Martell - Hotel Employee
- Olaf Hytten - Valet
- Grace Goodall - Nurse
- Ellen Drew - Secretary
- Harriette Haddon - Bit part
- Gloria Williams - Bit part
- Norah Gale - Bit part
- Sacha Guitry - Extra
- Ruth Rogers - Bit part
- Harold Minjir - Photographer
- Paul Bryar - Radio announcer
- Joseph Crehan - American tourist
- Leon Ames - Ex-Chauffeur
- Gary Cooper - Michael Brandon
- David Niven - Albert De Regnier
- Herman Bing - Monsieur Pepinard
- Rolfe Sedan - Floorwalker
- Lionel Pape - Monsieur Potin
- Tom Ricketts - Uncle Andre
- Charles Halton - Monsieur de la Coste,
- Joyce Mathews - Bit part
- Gwen Kenyon - Bit part
- Warren Hymer - Kid Mulligan
- Pauline Garon - Customer
- Sheila D'Arcy - Maid
- Ray DeRavenne - Package Clerk
- John Picorri - Conductor
- Albert D'Arno - Newsboy
- Dorothy White - Bit part
- Carol Parker - Bit part
- Dorothy Dayton - Bit part
- Gino Corrado - Waiter Who Carries
- Armand Cortes - Asst. Hotel Manager
- Hooper Atchley - Excited passenger
- Director(s):
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Writer(s):
- Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
- Producer(s):
- Ernst Lubitsch
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