lubitsch adaptation of the noel coward play about a ménage à trois star gary cooper and fredric march and miriam hopkins . the two men play a painter and a poet and and hopkins the girl who move in with them a their muse and critic . edward everett horton play the more down to earth man who also vie for hopkin attention . apparently and only the plot of coward play be keep here and with all of the dialogue excise because it be too dirty for 1930s hollywood . even with that and the film be censor on release and and after 1934 and when the hayes code be in strong effect and it wasn not allow to be show at all . a it be and it quite a fantastic movie and a you might expect from lubitsch . it funny and charming and but it also quite a bit darker and more serious than the american film he have make before it in the sound era . i would really like to read and or or see the original coward play and but lubitsch version be undoubtedly a very good film .