Design for Living

IMDb link: 0023940
IMDb rating: 7.4 (8,568 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and others

Release date: 29 Dec 1933
Release year: 1933
Runtime: 91 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: menage a trois, painter, romantic rivalry, american abroad, playwright, reference to napoleon bonaparte, reference to lady godiva, polyamory, playwriting, pre code film

Plot:

While traveling through France, the playwright Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers and his best friend, the painter George Curtis meet Gilda Farrell and they fall in love with her. Gilda is "protected" by the wealthy Max Plunkett and Tom and George are losers, but she cannot decide between them who could be her boyfriend. So she proposes a gentleman's agreement where they would be friends without having sex. She decides to criticize their works and they become successful. But will their platonic relationship work?

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