Paradise for Three

Paradise for Three
Paradise for Three
Directed by	Edward Buzzell
Written by	Erich Kästner (novel); George Oppenheimer; Harry Ruskin; Dalton Trumbo (uncredited); Gladys Unger (uncredited); Irma von Cube (uncredited)
Produced by	Sam Zimbalist
Starring	Frank Morgan; Robert Young; Mary Astor; Florence Rice
Cinematography	Leonard Smith; Charles Lawton Jr. (uncredited)
Edited by	Elmo Veron
Music by	Edward Ward
Distributed by	MGM
Release date	June 4, 1938;
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$359,000[1]
Box office	$751,000[1]

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 German 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 first of several film adaptations of Kästner's novel. The French film A Rare Bird followed in 1935, and later films bearing the title of the novel were released in 1936, 1955 and 1974.

Cast

Frank Morgan as Rudolph Tobler / "Edward Schultz"
Robert Young as Fritz Hagedorn
Mary Astor as Irene Mallebre
Florence Rice as Hilde Tobler / "Hilde Schultz", Rudolph's daughter
Edna May Oliver as Julia Kunkel
Reginald Owen as Johann Kesselhut
Herman Bing as Mr. Polter
Henry Hull as Sepp
Sig Ruman as Karl Bold (as Sig Rumann)
Walter Kingsford as William Reichenbach

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."[2]

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.[1]

References

The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
Nugent, Frank S. (1938-02-16). "A Farce, as Its Title Implies, 'Paradise for Three' Opens at Rialto—New Swedish Film Is Shown". The New York Times. p. 17.

External links

Paradise for Three at the TCM Movie Database
Paradise for Three at IMDb
Paradise for Three at AllMovie

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[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[2] Nugent, Frank S. (1938-02-16). "A Farce, as Its Title Implies, 'Paradise for Three' Opens at Rialto—New Swedish Film Is Shown". The New York Times. p. 17.