Madame Colet: Marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together.
Madame Colet (continues): But with you, Francois–I think it would be a mistake.
From my favorite movie–Ernst Lubitch’s Trouble in Paradise. Screenplay by Samson Raphaelson.
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SCENE: A woman kisses a man on his cheek. He arches a brow and looks at her with bemusement.
WOMAN: I know! Let’s pretend we’re happily married!
MAN: To each other?
Art by Dick Giordano
WOMAN: I know! Let’s pretend we’re happily married!
MAN: To each other?
Art by Dick Giordano
There would be no Bringing Up Baby no The Lady Eve no Pat and Mike without the delicious trouble Ernst Lubitsch and screenwriter Samson Raphaelson stirred up…What s called The Lubitsch Touch is essentially sophistication. These con artists in love with each other s effrontery live out their amoral impulses until they plot to rook Madame Colet Francis an heiress whose own audacity exposes Gaston and Lily s soft spots…But Trouble in Paradise never turns mushy and never slows down due to Lubitsch and screenwriter Samson Raphaelson s cosmopolitan insight about the capriciousness and fluidity of romantic attraction.