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Tag Archives: Ernst Lubitsch
To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. Read More »
So This Is Paris (1926) Ernst Lubitsch, Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman
Georgette live in Paris with her rather unexciting and effeminate husband, an actor and interpretive dancer. Read More »
The Vagabond King (1930) Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch, Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Musical, Romance
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. Read More »
One Hour with You (1932) George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. Read More »
Angel (1937) Ernst Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man. Read More »
Trouble in Paradise (1932) Ernst Lubitsch, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Comedy, Crime, Romance
High class European thief Gaston Monescu meets his soul mate Lily, a pickpocket masquerading as a countess. Read More »
That Uncertain Feeling (1941) Ernst Lubitsch, Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Comedy
Against her better judgement, happily married Jill Baker is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups. Read More »
Ninotchka (1939) Ernst Lubitsch, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Comedy, Romance
Only the royal suite at the grandest hotel in Paris has a safe large enough for the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana. Read More »
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl, Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Drama, Romance
Young Prince Karl Heinrich has spent his entire life behind the palace gates protected from the world. Read More »
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) Ernst Lubitsch, Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Comedy
Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere – her daughter does not know about her – wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton. Read More »
Die Puppe / The Doll (1919) Ernst Lubitsch, Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig, Victor Janson, Comedy, Fantasy
Because the Baron of Chanterelle wants to preserve his family line, he forces his timid nephew Lancelot to choose one of the village maidens to wed. Read More »
Das fidele Gefängnis / The Merry Jail (1917) Ernst Lubitsch, Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Paul Biensfeldt, Comedy
Based on Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus, the actions of ‘The Merry Jail’ occur over the course of a single eventful day and night. Read More »
The Love Parade (1929) Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Queen Louise’s cabinet are worried that she will become an old maid, and are delighted when she marries the rougish Count Renard. Read More »
Broken Lullaby (1932) Ernst Lubitsch, Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Drama
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript Read More »