Topic: Ernst Lubitsch
Several short films from well-known directors premiered in Tallinn, Estonia, last month but they'll never be seen again. The minute-long pics...
When Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley, 1939) played on British television at Christmas 1976, the Radio Times described it as 'a hard-hitting indictment of political corruption and prison abuses'.1 Casablanca's screenwriters famously wrote and re-wrote the film in response ...
That Lady in Ermine is a 1948 American musical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch . New York Times overview In 1861, Countess Angelina, ruler of Bergamo in southeastern Europe, marries Mario, a baron she has known since childhood. He awakens with a start ...
The Love Parade is a 1929 musical comedy film. The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch . This film is notable for being both the film debut of Jeanette MacDonald and the first "talkie" film by Ernst Lubitsch. Maurice Chevalier as Count Alfred ...
To Be Or Not To Be is such a case, I saw Mel Brooks ' version first some years ago and was always made to feel that I didn't know the real thing; last week I could finally put this right when ...
Under George Cukor's canny direction John and Lionel Barrymore, sex goddess Jean Harlow, and comedians Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery enliven the sophisticated dialogue, revolving around the lives of financial predators, actors on the rocks, hatcheck girls on the way up ...
UFA, in full Universum Film-Aktien Gesellschaft, German motion-picture production company that made artistically outstanding and technically competent films during the silent era. UFA was established in 1917 when the German government consolidated most of the nation's leading studios. Its purpose was ...
All Quiet on the Western Front, Carl Laemmle, Jr.. Other Nominees The Big House, Irving G. Thalberg Disraeli, Jack L. Warner and Darryl F. Zanuck The Divorcee, Robert Z. Leonard The Love Parade, Ernst Lubitsch . One of the most effective antiwar films ...
Nov. 30, 1947, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.), German-American motion-picture director who was best known for sophisticated comedies of manners. He studied acting and in 1911 joined the company of Max Reinhardt, the famous German stage director. His elaborate costume features in the ...
Aspects of the topic Broken Lullaby are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References discussed in biography (in Ernst Lubitsch (American director)) .