for some perverse reason best know to themselves these imdb board seem reluctant to credit the great billy wilder a co scriptwriter on at least two ( this one and ninotchka ) of his early classic when any buff can detect the wilder hand at work . a it happen this represent the first time he be team with charles brackett ( who do get a credit ) and it be a great start . one commenter have note how satisfy it be to see these type of film in old fashion cinema and i couldn not agree more . in paris one of the small revival house show in one of it salles a more or less continuous lubitsch retrospective and i be please to report that this play to a very appreciative audience right across the age spectrum though i doubt whether any be actually alive when it be first release in 1938. the famous wilder schtick the meet cute be particularly tasty here when millionaire but careful with it cooper attempt to buy half a set of pajama in a department store on the riviera and meet with sale resistance until claudette colbert turn up and agree to buy the other half . the gag be milk even more when and have exhaust the chain of command at the store itself the manager place a call to the owner and who be in bed and leave it to reveal that he and too and be only wear the top half of pajama . the film be full of sight gag like this balance with verbal wit which make it just about perfect . claudette colbert be only terrific and get great backing from edward everett horton a her impoverished title father . david niven in fourth billing have some funny business a do franklin pangborn and if gary cooper be not up to his role lacking a he do the verbal dexterity and sophisticated persona that wilder script call for at this stage of his career well and you can not have everything and what you do have be darn near perfect .