Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . not only enables Disney MegaCorp to mash together infinite combinations of Marvel Comic Book "heroes" for Big Box Office in Parallel Universes, but it also ordains that everything happens at once in THIS Universe. Whatever Gary Cooper's delusions about the linear progression of Time may be as he slogs through BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE, his U.S. billionaire "Mike Brandon" character is as much of a bigamist as the current White House squatter. Maybe if you truly believe that leprechauns churn out Lucky Charms by the box, you can also pay lip service to having three--or eight--"serial marriages." Folks who think that our Holy Bible is a joking matter MIGHT enjoy "BLUEBEARD'S" shenanigans here. Perhaps there are some Satanic Verses in Bluebeard's Bible which will provide a billionaire with three or eight paws, as well, the better to grab the passing girls by their private parts. However, normal people may not get much of a kick from BLUEBEARD''S shtick. "Mike Brandon" is just as deplorable a miscarriage of humanity as the Brooklyn KKK community organizer's son. How much further do we need to look to justify Roe versus Wade?
jimbro5
planktonrules comments must've been written on Topsy-Turvy Day, because everything stated by that simple life form is the opposite of real truth!'Bluebeard's Eighth Wife' is hilarious in every scene, in every way -- the chemistry between Colbert and Cooper could not have been finer...supporting cast is superb.Writing and direction are magnificent!!!Like so many other comments on this board again I lament, "Why can't films be like this anymore?" This is classic Paramount 1930's screwball comedy at its best, folks!
whpratt1
Gary Cooper, (Michael Brandon) played the role as an American millionaire who had seven bad marriages, but always divorced his wife's with plenty of money to live on. Michael is in Paris on business and goes into a French Department Store to buy a pair of pajama tops and the sales people refuse to sell him just the tops, he has to buy the bottoms or there is no sale. Nicole DeLoiselle, (Claudette Colbert) listens to this conversation and offers to buy the bottom of these pajama's. Michael becomes very interested in Nicole and they have occasion to meet and go on dates. It is not too long before Michael proposes marriage to Nicole and she is very taken back with his request for marriage since she really does not know him very well. However, once she finds out she is going to become the Eighth wife of Michael she begins to change her mind and this story becomes quite entertaining and funny. Don't miss this film, it is great entertainment by great veteran actors. Enjoy.
bkoganbing
Years before pre-nuptial agreements became a regular thing, Ernest Lubitsch made a screen comedy on which they are the basis. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife involves Gary Cooper as a multi-millionaire living on the French Riviera who's been married seven times and now marries Claudette Colbert for number eight. But Cooper's a good sport about it, he always settles with his ex-wives for a $50,000.00 a year as per an agreement they sign before marrying him. Sounds like what we now call a pre-nuptial agreement.Of course Claudette wants a lot more than that and she feels Cooper takes an entirely too business like approach to marriage. She'd like the real deal and is willing to go some considerable lengths to get it.Bluebeard's Eighth Wife has some really funny moments, the original meeting of Cooper and Colbert in a men's store where Cooper is insisting he wants only pajama tops and Colbert looking for only bottoms. And of course my favorite is Colbert trailing and blackmailing the detective Cooper sends to spy on her. Herman Bing has the best supporting role in the film as that selfsame, flustered detective.I've often wondered how back in the day Hollywood could get away with casting so many people who are non-French in a film like this. Of course Cooper is an American and Colbert of the cast is the only one actually of French background. Though David Niven is charming as always, having him be a Frenchman is ludicrous, he is sooooooo British.Nevertheless Bluebeard's Eighth Wife is an enjoyable film and a great example of what was called 'the Lubitsch touch' back in the day.
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