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Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins sit on a bench in a scene from Design for Living (1933), with Cooper holding March's face while Hopkins looks on.
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Design for Living

film by Lubitsch [1933]
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Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins sit on a bench in a scene from Design for Living (1933), with Cooper holding March's face while Hopkins looks on.
scene from Design for Living Fredric March (centre) with Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins in Design for Living (1933).

Design for Living is a 1933 sophisticated comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, based on a play by Noël Coward. The film stars Gary Cooper and Fredric March as an artist and a playwright living in Paris. They form an unconventional arrangement, a m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois, with a fellow American expatriate, played by Miriam Hopkins. The dynamic shifts when Hopkins's character marries a more conventional businessman but eventually realizes she prefers the unique lifestyle she shared with Cooper and March. The film is noted for its witty dialogue, graceful direction, and subtle exploration of unconventional relationships, characteristic of Lubitsch's signature style.12

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