"Trouble in Paradise" was supposed to be a comedy. Tried as I did, I couldn't find it funny at all. Maybe it was that it was a 1932 comedy or maybe it wasn't even funny back then, but judging by its rating it must've been a hit.
The main characters were two thieves: Lily (Miriam Hopkins) and Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall). The two became an item when Lily tried to steal his stolen goods. They hit it off majorly when they discovered that each was a thief.
They went on stealing together until Gaston met Mariette Colet (Kay Francis). Mariette was a wealthy widow to a perfume maker in France. Gaston stole her expensive handbag then returned it to her for a reward. It was then that Mariette was so impressed with Gaston that she hired him as her secretary on the spot. For Gaston it was part of a grander scheme to steal $850,000, but then you know... feelings.
I couldn't get into this movie at all. Kay Francis has never impressed me in any of her movies and she played a dumb rich girl in this one. Kay wasn't alone at that time playing a dumb woman. There were many. When I say dumb I mean when it comes to men. Mariette, like so many women, fell for a man's charm and then instantly trusted him before knowing even one thing about him. It was common in movies back then as though it was a regular occurrence.
If there was one redeeming aspect of this movie it is that Mariette and Gaston didn't marry at the end. That would've been a real stretch considering that Gaston was exposed as a thief and everybody knew it. No, in the end he sheepishly went back to his partner in crime, Lily, and I assume they lived happily ever after.
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The main characters were two thieves: Lily (Miriam Hopkins) and Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall). The two became an item when Lily tried to steal his stolen goods. They hit it off majorly when they discovered that each was a thief.
They went on stealing together until Gaston met Mariette Colet (Kay Francis). Mariette was a wealthy widow to a perfume maker in France. Gaston stole her expensive handbag then returned it to her for a reward. It was then that Mariette was so impressed with Gaston that she hired him as her secretary on the spot. For Gaston it was part of a grander scheme to steal $850,000, but then you know... feelings.
I couldn't get into this movie at all. Kay Francis has never impressed me in any of her movies and she played a dumb rich girl in this one. Kay wasn't alone at that time playing a dumb woman. There were many. When I say dumb I mean when it comes to men. Mariette, like so many women, fell for a man's charm and then instantly trusted him before knowing even one thing about him. It was common in movies back then as though it was a regular occurrence.
If there was one redeeming aspect of this movie it is that Mariette and Gaston didn't marry at the end. That would've been a real stretch considering that Gaston was exposed as a thief and everybody knew it. No, in the end he sheepishly went back to his partner in crime, Lily, and I assume they lived happily ever after.
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