Screwball’s Wordplay as Foreplay: Commentary on Trouble in Paradise (1932 film)

Film Society of Screwball Comedy (FSOSC.org) co-founder Ed Schroeder joins Aliece Pickett to discuss the love triangle between two seductive thieves and a cosmetics executive and what may just be the perfect film, Trouble in Paradise (1932 film) a screwball comedy. The film stars Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis; Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
Sources:
Screwball by Ed Sikov, Foreword by Molly Haskell (Crown Publishers,1989).
Ernst Lubitsch, Laughter in Paradise, by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster, 1993).
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride (Columbia Univ Press, 2018).
“Einstein, Lubitsch went from Germany to Palm Springs paradise” by Tracy Conrad (USA Today, The Desert Sun, May 26, 2024).
“Let’s Misbehave” (1927) music and lyrics by Cole Porter, performed by Irving Aaronson and his Commanders (1928).
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