Trouble In Paradise (1932)

• Director
  • Ernst Lubitsch
• Writers
  • Samson Raphaelson(screen play)
  • Grover Jones(adaptation)
  • Aladar Laszlo(play)
• Stars
  • Miriam Hopkins
  • Kay Francis
  • Herbert Marshall

  Ernst Lubitsch used Laszlo Aladar's play The Honest Finder as a springboard for one of his most delightful early-'30s Paramount confections. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play Gaston and Lily, a pair of Parisian thieves, both disguised as nobility, who decide to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis); Gaston gets a job as Mariette's confidential secretary, while Lily installs herself as the woman's typist. Love rears its head, forcing Gaston to choose between marriage to Mariette and a fast getaway with Lily. Filled with marvelous throwaway gags and sophisticated innuendo, Trouble in Paradise was described by one critic as "as close to perfection as anything I have ever seen in the movies."