Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It is a performances centric movie

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I liked Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert in this. Cooper played Michael Brandon, an American multi-millionaire and Colbert was Nicole - a French woman of aristocratic background. They meet in a store in Paris while Michael is trying to buy pyjama tops without the bottoms (? - must be a thirties thing.) When the store refuses to sell them that way, Nicole steps in to buy the bottoms, and the two develop a romance. Unfortunately, just before their marriage, Nicole discovers that she's to be Michael's eighth wife - and she doesn't take kindly to the news, especially when he offers her a contract paying her for the inevitable divorce. Here's where the movie stopped working for me.From this point on, it became - to me at least - mean-spirited rather than funny. Yes, there continued to be amusing scenes, but they were all seemingly spiteful. In a way, this struck me as a milder version of something like "The War Of The Roses." Yes, there's more going on than meets the eye - as we discover when the movie finally comes to an end and Nicole's motivation becomes clear, but I still didn't find this an especially pleasant movie to watch in spite of the good performances from the two leads. (3/10)

planktonrules comments must've been written on Topsy-Turvy Day, because everything stated by that simple life form is the opposite of real truth!'Bluebeard's Eighth Wife' is hilarious in every scene, in every way -- the chemistry between Colbert and Cooper could not have been finer...supporting cast is superb.Writing and direction are magnificent!!!Like so many other comments on this board again I lament, "Why can't films be like this anymore?" This is classic Paramount 1930's screwball comedy at its best, folks!

Gary Cooper, (Michael Brandon) played the role as an American millionaire who had seven bad marriages, but always divorced his wife's with plenty of money to live on. Michael is in Paris on business and goes into a French Department Store to buy a pair of pajama tops and the sales people refuse to sell him just the tops, he has to buy the bottoms or there is no sale. Nicole DeLoiselle, (Claudette Colbert) listens to this conversation and offers to buy the bottom of these pajama's. Michael becomes very interested in Nicole and they have occasion to meet and go on dates. It is not too long before Michael proposes marriage to Nicole and she is very taken back with his request for marriage since she really does not know him very well. However, once she finds out she is going to become the Eighth wife of Michael she begins to change her mind and this story becomes quite entertaining and funny. Don't miss this film, it is great entertainment by great veteran actors. Enjoy.

I have to agree with other reviews I've seen of this movie - despite some funny scenes and good lines, as a whole it just doesn't get off the ground, and Gary Cooper is wrong in the role of the much-married millionaire. Having said that, I love the scene where Claudette Colbert's character, talking about her financial difficulties, says: "Have you ever had a waiter look at you with untipped eyes? And when I ask the elevator boy for the fourth floor, he says 'Yes, Madame' and takes a detour through the basement." A small detail: in one scene Colbert is looking at a book called "Live Alone and Like It" which was an actual best-seller at the time.