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Early work, 1913–1921. Lubitsch, c. 1920. In 1913, Lubitsch made his film debut as an actor in The Ideal Wife. He gradually abandoned acting to concentrate on directing. He appeared in approximately 30 films as an actor between 1912 and 1920.
Ernst Lubitsch (born January 29, 1892, Berlin, Germany—died November 30, 1947, Hollywood, California, U.S.) was a German-born American motion-picture director who was best known for sophisticated comedies of manners and romantic comedies.
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Aug 8, 2022 · In the summer of 1943, the playwright and screenwriter Samson Raphaelson received word that Ernst Lubitsch, the Berlin-born director of such incandescent Hollywood comedies as “Trouble in...
Sep 28, 2018 · Once the Breen Office clamped down on censorship, Lubitsch retreated from the bawdy, sexual banter of films like The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) to a much more conventional “invisible” Hollywood style that avoided overt expressions of sexual desire.
He became very successful as a comedian and soon began writing and directing his own films. Gradually, Lubitsch abandoned acting to concentrate on directing and in 1918 he made his mark as a serious director with Die Augen der Mummie Ma (The Eyes of the Mummy), a tragic drama starring Pola Negri.
Mar 1, 1994 · Lubitsch had a knack for ferreting out the comedian in actors previously written off as strictly staid: Gary Cooper, in Design for Living, and, of course, Greta Garbo, in Ninotchka. His attempt...
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On Lubitsch’s last trip to Germany, when he “visited the European studios principally for the pleasure of again greeting my old friends there,” a party was thrown in his honor on December 14, 1932, by State Secretary Otto Meissner, who later became a Nazi official.
