Film Forum

U.S., 1938
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Written by Charles Bracket, Billy Wilder
Starring Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert
Approx. 80 min. 35mm.

In this classic meet-cute, American millionaire Gary Cooper and impoverished Claudette Colbert buy, respectively, the top and bottom of the same pair of pjs; but after love blossoms, she finds he’s a seven-time divorcé. First screenwriting collaboration of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.

Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s and The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film

Reviews

“The film in which Brackett and Wilder supposedly perfected the Hollywood ploy of ‘meeting cute’ with a Riviera department store scene where Coop wants to buy pyjama tops and Colbert the bottoms.”
– Time Out