Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles. A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

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"Countess" Lily (Miriam Hopkins) and "Baron" Gaston (Herbert Marshall) learn the truth about each other. ** NOTE: I do not own any rights to this clip. This ...

Ernst Lubitsch used Laszlo Aladar's play The Honest Finder as a springboard for one of his most delightful early-'30s Paramount confections. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play Gaston and Lily, a pair of Parisian thieves, both disguised as nobility, who decide to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis); Gaston gets a job as Mariette's confidential secretary, while Lily installs herself as the woman's typist. Love rears its head, forcing Gaston to choose between marriage to Mariette and a fast getaway with Lily. Filled with marvelous throwaway gags and sophisticated innuendo, Trouble in Paradise was described by one critic as

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