Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Director
Ernst Lubitsch

Main cast
Claudette Colbert; Gary Cooper; Edward Everett Horton; David Niven; Elizabeth Patterson

Genres
Comedy, Romance

Description
US multi-millionaire Michael Barndon marries his eight wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to "tame" him.


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