Design for Living
Dec 29 1933
•2h 31m
•Comedy, Romance
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Cast
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Fredric March
Tom Chambers
Miriam Hopkins
Gilda Farrell
Gary Cooper
George Curtis
Edward Everett Horton
Max Plunkett
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