Trouble in Paradise

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Trouble in Paradise

Directed by	Ernst Lubitsch
Produced by	Ernst Lubitsch
Written by	Aladar Laszlo (play) Grover Jones Samson Raphaelson
Starring	Miriam Hopkins Kay Francis Herbert Marshall Charles Ruggles Edward Everett Horton
Cinematography	Victor Milner
Release date(s)	October 21, 1932 (USA)
Running time	83 min
Country	USA
Language	English
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For the album by Randy Newman, see Trouble in Paradise (album)

Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 romantic comedy film that tells the story of a master thief who meets up with a beautiful pickpocket. The two of them go to work for a famous perfume manufacturer, and the thief finds himself torn between the two women. The film stars Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles and Edward Everett Horton.

The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was written by Samson Raphaelson, based loosely on the play The Honest Finder (A Becsuletes Megtalalo) by Hungarian playwright Aladar Laszlo. As with all the Lubitsch-Raphaelson collaborations, Lubitsch contributed ideas to the writing and Raphaelson contributed ideas to the directing.^{[citation needed]} The screenplay includes the line "Marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together... but with you I think it would just be a mistake."

The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.