alr

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Screening on Film
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
With Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton.
US, 1938, 35mm, black & white, 80 min.

Gary Cooper portrays a millionaire who, after having married and divorced seven women, meets his match with the daughter of a fallen French aristocrat. She has no intent of becoming yet another of her husband’s romantic casualties and schemes to change his ways. Although they received much greater acclaim for 1939’s Ninotchka, this first collaboration between screenwriter Charles Brackett and Wilder demonstrates how well-suited the duo’s comic sensibilities were to the “Lubitsch touch.”

Part of film series

Read more

Major and Minor Notes: A Billy Wilder Centennial

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

From the Collection: Antonioni / Bertolucci / Olmi

Read more

Steve McQueen’s Occupied City

Read more

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

Read more

Alain Kassanda,
2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow