Bluebeard's 8th Wife

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

He married in haste and repeated with pleasure!

NR 1938 · 85 min · ★ 7.1 · Comedy, Romance

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · Written by Charles Brackett

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