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Trouble in Paradise
Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall. Based on the 1931 play The Honest Finder (A Becsületes Megtaláló) by Hungarian playwright , the lead characters are a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket who join forces to con a beautiful woman who is the owner of a perfume company. In 1991, Trouble in Paradise was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Plot
In Venice, Gaston Monescu, a notorious thief masquerading as a baron, meets Lily, a pickpocket posing as a countess. The two fall in love and decide to team up. They leave Venice for Paris, where Gaston steals a diamond-encrusted purse worth 125,000 francs from widow Madame Mariette Colet, owner of the famous perfume manufacturer Colet and Co. When Mariette offers a large reward for its return, Gaston claims it under the alias Monsieur LaValle.
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| author | Ernst Lubitsch Grover Jones Samson Raphaelson |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Ernst Lubitsch |
| genre | comedy crime historical |
| keywords | claim clean dinner party franc french franc masquerade meet pearl necklace pickpocket reward |
| musicBy | W. Franke Harling |
| producer | Ernst Lubitsch |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | crime comedy gentleman thief romantic comedy screwball comedy |