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Tag Archives: Ernst Lubitsch
The Merry Widow (1934) Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
The small kingdom of Marshovia has a little problem. The main tax-payer, the wealthy widow Sonia Read More »
Eternal Love (1929) Ernst Lubitsch, John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi
In a Swiss Village in 1806, the fiery Marcus and the local clergyman’s niece Ciglia are passionately in love. Read More »
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Ernst Lubitsch, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
In Budapest, Hungary, the Matuschek and Company store is owned by Mr. Hugo Matuschek Read More »
The Marriage Circle (1924) Ernst Lubitsch
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Read More »
The Oyster Princess AKA Die Austernprinzessin (1919) Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke
Oyster-king Quaker cannot be impressed anymore. He is so rich that he even has a special butler holding his cigar while he is smoking. Read More »
A Royal Scandal (1945) Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter
In 18th century Russia,a naive and idealistic lieutenant,Alexei Chernoff, deserts his unit Read More »
Design for Living (1933) Ernst Lubitsch, Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
Two Americans sharing a flat in Paris, playwright Tom Chambers and painter George Curtis, fall for free-spirited Gilda Farrell. Read More »
Cluny Brown (1946) Ernst Lubitsch
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. Read More »
The Vagabond King (1930) Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch, Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie
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 »