DESIGN FOR LIVING

Serenade zu Dritt
Ernst Lubitsch
USA 1933
86 min
V'05

A playwright, a painter and a dancer meet in a train on the way to Paris. They become an inseparable trio and decide to start a life together. “No sex - is the agreement by the partners who want to start a new life together in 'Design for Living' “ says Frieda Grafe, “without always falling anew into the peripetition of the old love triangle. Of course it’s a joke, a wrong summary. And what if Lubitsch was serious about it?” One of the best and funniest of Lubitsch’ attacks on the moral code of American society and Hollywood’s film industry.

Credits
  • Gary Cooper
  • Edward Everett Horton - Ambassador Popoff
  • Frederic March
  • Miriam Hopkins