Design for Living Blu-ray

Release Year: 1933

Runtime: 91 min

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Cast: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn

Studios: Paramount Pictures

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.

Special Features:

New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

“The Clerk,” starring Charles Laughton, director Ernst Lubitsch’s segment of the 1932 omnibus film If I Had a Million

Selected-scene commentary by film scholar William Paul

British television production of the play Design for Living from 1964, introduced on camera by playwright Noël Coward

New interview with film scholar and screenwriter Joseph McBride

On Lubitsch and screenwriter Ben Hecht’s adaptation of the Coward play ● PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan

Technical Specifications:

• 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
• Monaural