this film reappear on channel 13 in the 1990s when they do a series of comedy from hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s . in fact and to the tune of the jolly fat policeman and they have a montage of scene from the film to introduce the series of people laugh and include one of gary cooper chortle when watch a film in a movie house a sequence from this film . it all begin innocently enough when cooper and a millionaire and go into a fancy department store in france to buy pajama . but he only like to sleep in the top . the clerk ( tyler brooke ) insist that he can not sell half a pair of pajama a cooper want . claudette colbert hear the argument and offer to help she only like to sleep in pajama bottom . what if brooke sell them each half . brooke have never have such an offer before and so he go to the floor walker ( rolfe sedan ) and ask him if this can be do . he be disturb too the request be quite unconventional . eventually they contact the store owner ( charles halton ) . halton be in bed and and get out his skinny frame support only a pajama top ( if a suitably long one for the sake of censorship ) . can they sell the two customer one set of pajama ( half for each ) . properly horrify and halton answer and no and of course not . that be communism . so the sale be not allow . apparently nobody think that cooper can buy the total pair and sell half to colbert . lubitsch bluebeard eighth wife have have a reputation of fall flat and most viewer not like it because of a misreading of colbert character . she be see a quite mercenary towards cooper sell herself to him on her term . actually cooper character be the nasty and a he be rich and figure that everything have a price . he be correct most of the time . look at the way colbert aristocratic pauper of a father and edward everett horton and see his new son in law a a golden goose he can use . cooper willingness to marry colbert somehow include an agreement that if he be hesitant or chooses to not marry her he have to pay damage . horton and when he realize this and take out a watch and and ( in a most reassuring voice ) say to cooper take your time my boy . and to come to a decision . later we see horton wardrobe have get more modern and fancier . the film and script by billy wild and charles brackett and compare well with their script for mitchell leisin midnight ( also with colbert and but with don ameche and john barrymore ) . there colbert be willing to sell herself for a money marriage to ( to francis lederer ) and but it be complicate by a fictitious marriage to ameche . she really love ameche ( a taxi driver ) but she explain to him in an unexpectedly realistic moment that her parent marry for love but poverty make them grow to hate each other . this be not find in bluebeard eighth wife and where colbert do not have a background like that ( she be and after all and the daughter of a marquis ) . her mercenary plotting be to teach cooper a lesson about his standard . the film have some nice work by the support staff and include herman bing a a private eye who turn out to be hide thing that colbert learn about and and a young david niven and who have a set of choice moment a a stand in punch bag and a a willing ear to cooper . coop tell niven about his problem with colbert and and how she be so infuriating . niven listen respectfully . at the end and cooper be touch by his willingness to hear what he have to say . albert and how much do i pay you . and cooper ask him . niven think and say and thirty five franc a week sir . cooper look deeply into his soul and and say ( shake his head ) and that fair .