AFS Essential Cinema: DESIGN FOR LIVING October 21, 2008

Tom, a playwright, and George, an artist, share a garret in Paris where they have struggled for success for 12 years. Gilda, a lovely young commercial artist, enters their lives and their hearts and brings them success. Amazingly, the ménage a trois manages to work out the kinks in their complicated relationship – even after Gilda marries her stodgy boss. This decidedly pre-Code comedy got onto American screens right before the Hollywood censors cracked down on a whole host of representations of “immorality.”

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