Out now on DVD is the racy, delightful, pre-code comedy Design For Living (Criterion), based on Noel Coward's play which he wrote for his acting friends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The movie, however, was drastically rewritten by Ben Hecht (The Front Page) and directed with comic flair by Ernst Lubitsch. Miriam Hopkins is Gilda, a free-spirited commercial artist who meets George, an artist (Gary Cooper) and Thomas, a playwright (Fredrick March), on a Paris train. She falls for both men but can't decide between them so they try to keep it platonic. But when Thomas goes off to London to stage his play Gilda admits to George: "It's true we have a gentleman's agreement but unfortunately I am no gentleman." This film still has a smart, sophisticated modern feel to it. The two-disc set includes a 1964 British TV version of the original play with an introduction by Noel Coward, so you can see the similarities and differences. Another extra incldues Lubitsch's The Clerk from the omnibus film If I Had A Million starring Charles Laughton.