Details

Release year: 1933

Storyline

A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.

Top credits

Directors

Ernst Lubitsch

Writers

Cast

Fredric March — Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers
Gary Cooper — George Curtis
Miriam Hopkins — Gilda Farrell
Edward Everett Horton — Max Plunkett

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Did you know

• Considerable censorship difficulties arose because of sexual discussions and innuendos, although the Hays Office eventually approved the film for release. However, the film was banned by the Legion of Decency and was refused a certificate for re-release by censor Joseph Breen in 1934 when the Production Code was more rigorously enforced.

• Writer Ben Hecht and producer-director Ernst Lubitsch retained only one line from the original play by Noël Coward: "For the good of our immortal souls!"

• In the film, "Gilda" is pronounced with a soft "G" ("Jilda") probably because Noel Coward is British, and he both wrote and starred in the play. The British are more strict than Americans in following the soft-G rules where G is soft when followed by E, I, or Y.

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