Design for Living

“Design for Living. What is that? Oh, of course. Funny.”

“Design for Living, Ernst Lubitsch. Pre-code romantic comedy farce, basically about a throuple. I don't know, this film just feels like home to me. This film just feels like Thursday. I saw somebody on Twitter recently talking about how the Hays Code and the censorship that emerged after this film in Hollywood in the '30s going to the '40s, how like that's kind of the root of culture getting messed up in America.”

“Design for Living. I'm obsessed with this movie. I have a poster of this movie in my study. This is from 1933, this is immediately pre-code. It wouldn't even be made now because it's so ambiguous but also incredibly blatant. She's in love with two men, they're in love with her. This was based on a Noël Coward play. Fredric March and Gary Cooper are so incredible and beautiful and hilarious and Miriam Hopkins is such a specific person. There's something about the movie that I find so life affi...”