Movie Reviewed: Trouble in Paradise (1932), starring Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins

Movie Reviewed: Trouble in Paradise (1932), starring Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins

Marriage is beautiful mistake two people make together

Critics wrote raving reviews for this movie, released in 1932, at the height of Great Depression, and they still have not stopped yet! It is a sophisticated comedy of director Ernst Lubitsch, but in 1932 the audience response was not sensational and it did not receive any nominations for the movie in which quintessential Lubitsch displayed his directorial talents with smooth narrative for this comedy. It has a delicate eroticism and verbal wit but Lubitsch brings out something special from every actor in this film.

Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play a pair of jewel thieves and prey upon a wealthy socialite played by Kay Francis. When Marshall falls in love with Kay, Miriam is not too happy and some of the best dialogues of the movie come out when they fight about the lost love. In supporting roles; Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, and Aubrey Smith perform splendidly. Samson Raphaelson’s screenplay is well written for the Aladar Lazlo’s play.