There is a photograph of the great director Ernst Lubitsch – best remembered for such films as “Ninotchka,” “The Shop Around the Corner” and the original “To Be or Not to Be” – staring at a German ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bemoaning the fact that Lubitsch's fame and influence have receded in recent times, McBride approaches his part-biographical, ...

“The Lubitsch touch” was the brainchild of a go-getter in the Warner Bros. publicity department named Hal Wallis, when Ernst Lubitsch was under contract at the studio in the 1920s. Thus did future ...

The great German, then American, director Ernst Lubitsch is currently featured as FilmStruck‘s “director of the week,” and they have a generous selection of his films spanning most of his career. A ...

Ernst Lubitsch's best and most loyal acolyte once recalled, in the closing scenes of his own storied life, his onetime boss/mentor/friend in the same manner that Hollywood has desperately tried to ...

The German-Jewish émigré placed his suave and elegant characters in urbane settings that he fondly remembered—or invented—and polished to a deliciously high comedy gloss on the Paramount lot. Lubitsch ...

German-born director Ernst Lubitsch, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s, had such a deft hand with comedies that it became known as “the Lubitsch touch.” The American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in ...

The name Ernst Lubitsch may not be as familiar to casual movie-goers as Frank Capra, Howard Hawks or John Ford, but some would argue he ought to be. The German-born filmmaker, who died at the age of ...

In Hollywood’s golden age, no one made urbane, sophisticated romantic comedies like Ernst Lubitsch. Even fellow directors like Billy Wilder and William Wyler were huge fans. When Lubitsch died in 1947 ...

Christmas comes early with the soaring “Shop Around the Corner” (1940), which plays at the Stanford Theatre this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, March 18-19 at 5:40 and 9:30 p.m. Director Lubitsch is ...