French expatriate filmmaker Julien Duvivier directs this charming episodic urban comedy drama. There are enough writers to field a football team and almost as many stars in it as are in the sky. It centers around a formal tailcoat made for a Broadway stage star (Charles Boyer), that the tailor says is cursed. The tailcoat will get passed onto four other diverse owners through various means and it takes five episodes to cover the alternatively ironic, poignant and frivolous things that happen to those who possess the tailcoat. — Dennis Schwartz