Trouble in Paradise (1932 film)

Trouble in Paradise
Theatrical release poster
Directed byErnst Lubitsch
Screenplay bySamson Raphaelson
Story byGrover Jones (adaptation)
Based onA Becsületes Megtaláló
1931 play
by Aladár László
Produced byErnst Lubitsch
Starring
CinematographyVictor Milner
Music byW. Franke Harling
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 30, 1932 (1932-10-30) (US)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$519,706
Box office$475,000 (US/Canada)

Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall. Based on the 1931 play The Honest Finder (A Becsületes Megtaláló) by Hungarian playwright Aladár László, the lead characters are a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket who join forces to con a beautiful woman who is the owner of a perfume company. In 1991, Trouble in Paradise was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".