Portland Public Library

Design for living, Universal ; a Paramount Picture presents an Ernest Lubitsch production ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch ; screen play by Ben Hecht

Based on the play by Noël CowardOriginally produced as a motion picture in 1933Special features: Disc 1. "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. Disc 2. "Joseph McBride: the screenplay" film historian and screenwriter Joseph McBride discusses Coward, the adaptation, and Hecht's career; "Play of the week: a choice of Coward" British television production of the play "Design for living" from 1964, introduced on camera by playwright Noël Coward. Booklet: "It takes three" essay by film critic Kim Morgan

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Photographed by Victor Milner ; editor, Frances Marsh ; original music, John Leipold ; art director, Hans Dreier ; costume design, Travis Banton

other

Two-DVD special ed.

9781604655254

videodisc

Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn, Isabel Jewell, Jane Darwell, Wyndham Standing

2 videodiscs (91 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, booklet (illustrations ; 19 cm).

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)755112671

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono

715515090018

CC2095D -- Criterion Collection

DVD