Joseph McBride on DESIGN FOR LIVING
Design for Living • 22m
Director Ernst Lubitsch and famed screenwriter Ben Hecht thoroughly reworked the dialogue and structure of Noël Coward’s original play for their film adaptation. In this 2011 interview, film historian and screenwriter Joseph McBride discusses Coward, the approach to the adaptation, and the career of Hecht.
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