Watch: Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife 1938 123movies, Full Movie Online – US multi-millionaire Michael Barndon marries his eight wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn’t want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to “tame” him..
Plot: American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn’t want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
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Shaving A Bluebeard
Years before pre-nuptial agreements became a regular thing, Ernest Lubitsch made a screen comedy on which they are the basis. Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife involves Gary Cooper as a multi-millionaire living on the French Riviera who’s been married seven times and now marries Claudette Colbert for number eight. But Cooper’s a good sport about it, he always settles with his ex-wives for a $50,000.00 a year as per an agreement they sign before marrying him. Sounds like what we now call a pre-nuptial agreement.Of course Claudette wants a lot more than that and she feels Cooper takes an entirely too business like approach to marriage. She’d like the real deal and is willing to go some considerable lengths to get it.
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife has some really funny moments, the original meeting of Cooper and Colbert in a men’s store where Cooper is insisting he wants only pajama tops and Colbert looking for only bottoms. And of course my favorite is Colbert trailing and blackmailing the detective Cooper sends to spy on her. Herman Bing has the best supporting role in the film as that selfsame, flustered detective.
I’ve often wondered how back in the day Hollywood could get away with casting so many people who are non-French in a film like this. Of course Cooper is an American and Colbert of the cast is the only one actually of French background. Though David Niven is charming as always, having him be a Frenchman is ludicrous, he is sooooooo British.
Nevertheless Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife is an enjoyable film and a great example of what was called ‘the Lubitsch touch’ back in the day.
Enjoyable 1938 Comedy
Gary Cooper, (Michael Brandon) played the role as an American millionaire who had seven bad marriages, but always divorced his wife’s with plenty of money to live on. Michael is in Paris on business and goes into a French Department Store to buy a pair of pajama tops and the sales people refuse to sell him just the tops, he has to buy the bottoms or there is no sale. Nicole DeLoiselle, (Claudette Colbert) listens to this conversation and offers to buy the bottom of these pajama’s. Michael becomes very interested in Nicole and they have occasion to meet and go on dates. It is not too long before Michael proposes marriage to Nicole and she is very taken back with his request for marriage since she really does not know him very well. However, once she finds out she is going to become the Eighth wife of Michael she begins to change her mind and this story becomes quite entertaining and funny. Don’t miss this film, it is great entertainment by great veteran actors. Enjoy.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 25 min (85 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Alfred Savoir
Actors Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length (9 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm