The Old Hollywood Garden Posted by Carol Martinheira on January 9, 2023

AND THE OSCAR DOESN’T GO TO… Ernst Lubitsch On January 9, 2023 By CarolIn Uncategorized Well, here it is, it’s 2023 and I’m already tired. Happy New Year, everyone! I had a good 2002, movie-wise and otherwise-wise. I started my Cinema Museum   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on October 20, 2021

This Hollywood-savvy item appeared in the December 1932 issue of Vanity Fair, “…although a German director [he] is now claimed by America. His gay and cynic touch, his dramatic use of detail, have reconditioned many an otherwise anemic script and saved it from the shelf – until a   read more

Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on August 13, 2020

Carole Lombard and Jack Benny in Ernst Lubitsch’s “To Be or Not to Be” To Be or Not to Be (1942) is a comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny The film is set in Warsaw, Poland, before the 1939 Nazi invasion. Josef Tura (Jack...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 14, 2020

Looking over it now, The Love Parade just might be one of the finest pre-1930s musicals, capitalizing on the rising trend thanks to the success of The Jazz Singer and Broadway Melody. Whereas many of its contemporaries are mainly interesting as historical relics, this Lubitsch comedy still has some   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on March 3, 2019

Image Source There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one. -Ernst Lubitsch Quote Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on January 27, 2019

He never forgot that dialogue should complement, not replace, what is essentially a visual medium. -Douglas Fairbanks Jr., about Ernst Lubitsch Quote Source   read more

Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on January 20, 2015

“What would Lubitsch do?” a sign in Billy Wilder’s office famously read. It was both a testament to Wilder’s respect for the German-born director (for whom he co-wrote two films) and a tribute to Ernst Lubitsch’s ability to balance light comedy with resonant humanity. If you love classic film, you...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on December 28, 2014

The Shop Around the Corner has a lot going on in a limited space. It’s not particularly long–under 100 minutes–and it mostly takes place in (or outside) the titular shop. And, while the present action is about six and a half months (there’s a big jump), the back story define   read more

Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on January 29, 2014

Ernst Lubitsch, January 28, 1892 Biography Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in ParadiseBy Scott Eyman, Simon & Schuster, 1993 Master of Innuendo I'm not going to write a particularly detailed tribute to Ernst Lubitsch on this, the day after his birthday, because so many   read more

Movie Classics Posted by Judy on November 5, 2012

This bitter-sweet romantic comedy flopped at the box office on release, and is still largely overlooked. It led to Marlene Dietrich being labelled ‘box-office poison’ and dropped by Paramount, before going on to reinvent herself in Destry Rides Again.  It also contributed to director Ern   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on March 22, 2012

Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March Fredric March was already an Oscar winner and a newly minted Hollywood star when he co-starred with Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 adaptation of the Noel Coward play Design for Living. In 1929, when all the major studios w   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on March 22, 2012

Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March Fredric March was already an Oscar winner and a newly minted Hollywood star when he co-starred with Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 adaptation of the Noel Coward play Design for Living. In 1929, when all the major studios w   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on March 22, 2012

Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March Fredric March was already an Oscar winner and a newly minted Hollywood star when he co-starred with Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 adaptation of the Noel Coward play Design for Living. In 1929, when all the major studios w   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on October 8, 2011

'The Lubitsch Touch' has been dissected and analyzed for decades. Billy Wilder, who had been protégé to director Ernst Lubitsch early on, put it succinctly: "The Lubitsch Touch is a light touch. But there are serious overtones in Lubitsch. He understood life..." In 1941, Lubitsch signed a three y   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on October 8, 2011

'The Lubitsch Touch' has been dissected and analyzed for decades. Billy Wilder, who had been protégé to director Ernst Lubitsch early on, put it succinctly: "The Lubitsch Touch is a light touch. But there are serious overtones in Lubitsch. He understood life..." In 1941, Lubitsch signed a three y   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on October 8, 2011

For Carole & Company's "Carole-tennial (+3)," marking the 103rd anniversary of Hollywood legend Carole Lombard's birth, I'm taking a look at my favorite Carole Lombard film, director Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942). This was Lombard's last film, released just a month after her death.   read more

Movie Classics Posted by Judy on September 25, 2011

I’ve been watching a lot of Lubitsch’s famous pre-Code musical comedies recently, so thought it would be interesting also to see this little-known serious anti-war drama which he made at the same period, starring Lionel Barrymore. Broken Lullaby – also known as The Man I Killed, af   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Silentfilmfanatic on August 2, 2010

“Gypsy Blood” (1918) is a silent drama starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, and Leopald von Ledebur. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, this film was the first of his German productions to reach the United States. Adapted from Prosper Merimee’s 1845 novella “Carmen,” Lubitsch&   read more

Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on March 25, 2010

Ernst Lubitsch, "To Be or Not To Be," and Lombard's last impression Coming to America Director Ernst Lubitsch left his native Germany in 1922 at the invitation of silent-screen legend Mary Pickford. He directed Pickford in two popular films, Rosita (1923) and The Marriage Circle (1924). Right f   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on November 11, 2008

Trouble in Paradise features some great filmmaking. Here, Lubitsch runs wild with the passage of time–there’s a great sequence with various clocks marking the minutes, but there’s a lot of carefully orchestrated fades as well. The film opens with an excellent mixed shot–agai   read more