Design for Living (Criterion Collection)

Ernst Lubitsch directed this loose adaptation of the Noël Coward play that concerns Gilda (Miriam Hopkins), a young artist who can’t choose between two men, a playwright (Fredric March) and a painter (Gary Cooper). The three Americans decide to live together in a Paris flat without romantic involvement, but will temptation ruin their agreement, in this charming and daring farce? With Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn. 91 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English PCM mono; audio commentary; interviews; film excerpt; bonus "A Choice of Coward" episode; booklet.