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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
Featuring: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Rex O'Malley
Screwball comedy doesn’t get any more effortlessly elegant and gleefully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deception, gleaming with cunning wit and Continental élan. A couture-clad Claudette Colbert is divine as a penniless American showgirl who crashes Parisian high society by posing as a wealthy Hungarian baroness—but both a scheming nobleman (John Barrymore) and a smitten taxi driver (Don Ameche) are soon on to her game. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s sophisticated script—a typically subversive blend of fairy-tale escapism and caustic social observation—and the pitch-perfect direction of master craftsman Mitchell Leisen yield a topsy-turvy Cinderella story with a cynical bite.
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Format: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
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English 1.0 PCM Mono
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English
Region:
A
Discs:
1 Disc |
BD-50
Supplements
- New audio commentary featuring author and film critic Michael Koresky
- New program featuring audio excerpts of a 1969 interview with director Mitchell Leisen
- Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1940
- Trailer
- An essay by film critic David Cairns
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