Ernst Lubitsch - Definition and Overview

Ernst Lubitsch (January 28, 1892 - November 30, 1947) was an American film director of German origin. He moved to the United States at the age of thirty in 1922.

On his passing, he was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Selected Filmography

• The Love Parade (1930) - a musical film and Lubitsch's first sound film;
• Monte Carlo (1930)
• Trouble in Paradise (1932)
• One Hour with You (1932)
• Design for Living (1933)
• The Merry Widow (1934)
• Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
• Ninotchka (1939) - starring Greta Garbo
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
• To Be or Not to Be (1942) - satirized the Nazis through the tribulations of a troupe of actors in occupied Poland.

External links

• Ernst Lubitsch (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0523932/) at the Internet Movie Database