Paradise for Three
{{Short description|1938 film by Edward Buzzell}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Paradise for Three
| image = Paradise for Three FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption =
| director = Edward Buzzell
| producer = Sam Zimbalist
| writer = Erich Kästner (novel)
George Oppenheimer
Harry Ruskin
Dalton Trumbo (uncredited)
Gladys Unger (uncredited)
Irma von Cube (uncredited)
| starring = Frank Morgan
Robert Young
Mary Astor
Florence Rice
| music = Edward Ward
| cinematography = Leonard Smith
Charles Lawton Jr. (uncredited)
| editing = Elmo Veron
| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| released = {{Film date|1938|6|4}}
| runtime = 78 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $359,000{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.
}}
Paradise for Three, titled Romance for Three in the United Kingdom, is a 1938 American romantic comedy film starring Frank Morgan as a wealthy industrialist who learns about his Austrian workers by surreptitiously living among them. It was adapted from Erich Kästner's novel Three Men in the Snow, published in 1934.
Paradise for Three is the third of several film adaptations of Kästner's novel. It was preceded by the French film A Rare Bird in 1935. Other films bearing the title of the novel were released in 1936, 1955 and 1974.
Cast
- Frank Morgan as Rudolph Tobler / "Edward Schultz", industrialist
- Robert Young as Fritz Hagedorn, contest winner
- Mary Astor as Irene Mallebre, gold-digging divorcee
- Florence Rice as Hilde Tobler / "Hilde Schultz", Rudolph's daughter
- Edna May Oliver as Julia Kunkel, Tobler's housekeeper
- Reginald Owen as Johann Kesselhut, Tobler's butler
- Herman Bing as Mr. Polter, bell captain
- Henry Hull as Sepp, kitchen worker
- Sig Ruman as Karl Bold (as Sig Rumann), hotel manager
- Walter Kingsford as William Reichenbach, Tobler's assistant
Reception
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Frank S. Nugent called Paradise for Three "a light, slight and agile farce, something in the nature of a dividend from a Metro preferred stock company" and "a genial show."{{Cite news |last=Nugent |first=Frank S. |date=1938-02-16 |title=A Farce, as Its Title Implies, 'Paradise for Three' Opens at Rialto—New Swedish Film Is Shown |page=17 |work=The New York Times}}
According to MGM records, the film earned $421,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $330,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $118,000.
References
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External links
- {{TCMDb title|2043}}
- {{IMDb title|0030554}}
{{Edward Buzzell}}
{{Three Men in the Snow}}
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Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films based on Three Men in the Snow (novel)
Category:1938 romantic comedy films
Category:Films directed by Edward Buzzell
Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Category:American romantic comedy films
Category:American remakes of French films
Category:Films set in the Alps
Category:American skiing films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:Films scored by Edward Ward (composer)
Category:English-language romantic comedy films
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