Notes on…

Design for Living(1933)

Dir. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch


Noticing, perhaps, two of the best-looking men she’s ever seen conked out across from her, [Glinda] does what any advertising artist would do—she begins sketching their faces. Already she’s got the upper hand, playfully drawing these two sleeping beauties from her perspective—a perspective that will bloom into something quite involved once their introductions turn into . . . invitations.

Kim Morgan (Criterion)

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Synopsis: Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.