The director brought his characteristic wit and charm to four musicals made for Paramount between 1929 and 1932, now gathered ...
With “To Be or Not to Be,” director Ernst Lubitsch achieved something astonishing: He laughed in the face of the Nazis by creating a comedy that illustrates how their ideology makes them buffoons.
The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. Curiosity is a key factor of being a cinephile—maybe the ...
Director Ernst Lubitsch, the beady-eyed, loquacious, stocky German-Jew whose long list of successes ending with The Merry Widow have made him one of the five most famed cinema directors in the world, ...
The Ernst Lubitsch Estate -- built in Bel-Air for the Berlin-born producer, writer and actor of the same name -- was last listed more than six decades ago. Anthony Barcelo for Douglas Elliman The Los ...
This essay is part of the Forward’s list of 125 greatest Jewish movie scenes. You can find the whole list and accompanying essays here. How dare he? This appears to be the consensus critics came to ...
In Bel-Air, a trophy estate built for famed director Ernst Lubitsch just hit the market for $20 million. It’s the first time the home has surfaced for sale in 60 years. The Spanish-style mansion was ...
In Bel-Air, a trophy estate built for famed director Ernst Lubitsch just hit the market for $20 million. It’s the first time the home has surfaced for sale in 60 years. The Spanish-style mansion was ...