there be something about see a movie in a good and old fashioned movie house that add enormous appeal to every picture . i and fortunately enough and be able to see at film forum in new york city a pair of ernst lubitsch comedy during their three week tribute to the legendary director . the double feature i attend be a screening of lubitsch 1938 comedy bluebeard eighth wife and the pre code classic design for living and neither of which i have see before . everything i read of design for living praise the film and but i could not find a good review anywhere for bluebeard eighth wife . leonard maltin dislike it . videohound and too and give the comedy a low rating . it imdb score be not complimentary . and pauline kael ( not a great surprise ) blast the film in her scathing review . so and when i go into the city that day i be expect to enjoy bluebeard eighth wife only slightly and love design for living completely . bluebeard eighth wife ( which be show first ) begin and a the eccentric who populate the cinema take their seat and the thirty music subside . ` adolph zukor present claudette colbert and gary cooper in ernst lubitsch bluebeard eighth wife and the title card read . then the picture open with a hilarious scene represent cooper want to buy a pair of pajama top and but he doesn not want any part of the bottom . he get into a squabble with the clerk and who seek the help of his high boss and and their seem to be no end to the argument . enter claudette colbert and one of thirty cinema most beautiful and charming and and talented personality . ` i will take the bottom and she kindly intercede . and there you have perhaps screwball comedy fine ` meet cute ever . the film keep my interest wonderfully . i find myself laugh almost constantly . when colbert discovers and just before a family portrait be take and that her groom to be have be marry seven time and the entire theatre break into histerics . when she bargain for money immediately after she get over her shock and the laugh ( which still haven not cease ) intensify . and edward everett horton milk some hilarious reaction out of the script as well . when cooper take inspiration from shakespeare the taming of the shrew in discipline his wife by slap her in the face and i could not control my laughter when she slap him back . and the drunk scene with the scallion be one of claudette colbert funny comic scene . the great comic moment of the film come when colbert highers a boxer to ` teach her husband a lesson . in pure screwball fashion and he knock out the wrong man and instead put her friend david niven into a cold sleep . he awake a cooper be arrive . in order to cover up the situation and colbert herself and in a moment of strong sexiness and put her fist up to niven and ask represent ` where do that man hit you . here . right here . right here . and then bam . knock him out again . the film be wonderful and from begin to end it be a perfect delight . i love design for living and too and though i dare say i think for sheer laugh and entertainment bluebeard eighth wife be the good and more enjoyable film . there be some charm of see a vintage film on the large screen . and in the presence of others laugh and one feel more comfortable do so himself . that be and perhaps and why i felt the way i do about bluebeard eighth wife .