Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Nicole de Loiselle: I wish someone would tell you what I really think of you.

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This film was the first collaboration of director Ernst Lubitsch with writers Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. At their first production meeting, Ernst Lubitsch posed this question: How do the boy and girl get together? Billy Wilder promptly suggested that the opening scene should be in the men's shop of a department store. "The boy is trying to buy a pajama," he extemporized glibly, "but he sleeps only in the tops. He is thrifty so he insists on buying ONLY the tops. The clerk says he must buy the pants too. It looks like a catastrophe. Then the girl comes into the shop and buys the pants because she sleeps only in the pants." Ernst Lubitsch and Charles Brackett were enchanted with this idea. Months later, they discovered that Billy Wilder himself was a pajama tops-only sleeper and had been contemplating this idea for months, waiting for a chance to use it in a comedy.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 27, 1952 with David Niven reprising his film role.
Many people who are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Tom Ricketts (Uncle Andre), James Dime (Prizefighter), Eugene Borden (Waiter on Stairs), Jean De Briac (Waiter in Corridor), Sheila Darcy (Maid), Alphonse Martell (Hotel Employee), Paul Gustine (Man in Steamship Office), Hooper Atchley (Excited Passenger), Ellen Drew (Secretary) and Henry Roquemore (Fat Man).
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