Lubitsch
Americannoun
noun
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By 1934, Lubitsch had left Paramount for MGM, where he directed one last musical with Chevalier and MacDonald, a loose but fizzy adaptation of Franz Lehár’s operetta “The Merry Widow.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The wryly funny “Seasons” is hardly a madcap romp in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, but it does have some kinship with “To Be or Not to Be,” the Ernst Lubitsch comedy of 1942.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
I became a cinephile because I discovered Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch, and I never got over it.
From Salon ● May 30, 2025
“Something from Tiffany’s” doesn’t quite have the Lubitsch touch.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
In Bel-Air, a trophy estate built for famed director Ernst Lubitsch just hit the market for $20 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
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