wife,department store,millionaire,screwball comedy,meet cute,unconsummated marriage,romantic pursuit,comedy of remarriage,ne'er do well,serial bridegroom,prenuptial agreement

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

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He married in haste and repeated with pleasure!

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.

Cast & Crew

Director
Ernst Lubitsch
  • Profile picture of Claudette Colbert
    Nicole De Loiselle Claudette Colbert
  • Profile picture of Gary Cooper
    Michael Brandon Gary Cooper
  • Profile picture of Edward Everett Horton
    Marquis De Loiselle Edward Everett Horton
  • Profile picture of David Niven
    Albert De Regnier David Niven
  • Profile picture of Elizabeth Patterson
    Aunt Hedwige Elizabeth Patterson
  • Profile picture of Herman Bing
    Monsieur Pepinard Herman Bing
  • Profile picture of Warren Hymer
    Kid Mulligan Warren Hymer
  • Profile picture of Franklin Pangborn
    Assistant Hotel Manager Franklin Pangborn

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Keywords

  • wife
  • department store
  • millionaire
  • screwball comedy
  • meet cute
  • unconsummated marriage
  • romantic pursuit
  • comedy of remarriage
  • ne'er do well
  • serial bridegroom
  • prenuptial agreement