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  1. He gradually abandoned acting to concentrate on directing. He appeared in approximately 30 films as an actor between 1912 and 1920. His last film appearance as an actor was in the 1920 drama Sumurun , opposite Pola Negri and Paul Wegener , which he also directed.

  2. 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...

  3. Jun 15, 2003 · ''Trouble in Paradise,'' made in 1932, is a late gasp of Continental sexual candor before the imposition of the 1933 Production Code, but the Code's strictures were, for Lubitsch, a spur to...

  4. Before long, Lubitsch was directing. When he assigned himself sole credit, Cukor contested the action in arbitration. Ultimately, Cukor waived his claim in exchange for being freed from his Paramount contract. Lubitsch’s next project, Trouble in Paradise (1932), is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Hopkins and Herbert Marshall played ...

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  5. Sep 28, 2018 · McBride frames the work in terms of Lubitsch’s changing attitude to his acting, since Lubitsch was the star of his first comedies, like Schuhpalast Pinkus ( Shoe Salon Pinkus, 1916), but increasingly harbored (justified) doubts about his acting ability.

  6. Sep 1, 2017 · June 16September 1, 2017. That Certain Feeling... The Touch of Ernst Lubitsch. Tales of exiled European filmmakers arriving in Hollywood to rattle the walls of the film industry abound throughout history, from the leftist dissidents who faced institutional scrutiny for critiquing American Dream mythology (Billy Wilder, Edgar Ulmer, William ...

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  8. Jan 8, 2019 · The Jewish Lubitsch left Germany a decade before the Nazis came to power, was denounced by Hitler in 1933 as "a person dangerous to the State", and took out American citizenship in 1936, but he ...

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