Lubitsch

American

[loo-bich] / ˈlu bɪtʃ /

noun

Ernst 1892–1947, German film director and producer, in the U.S. after 1922.

Lubitsch British

/ ˈluːbɪtʃ /

noun

Ernst. 1890–1947, US film director, born in Germany; best known for such sophisticated comedies as Forbidden Paradise (1924) and Ninotchka (1939)

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Ernst Lubitsch is best remembered today for directing some of the wittiest, sauciest Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and ’40s.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

I became a cinephile because I discovered Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch, and I never got over it.

From Salon

"I think of what filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch said when he left Berlin for the U.S. in the run-up to fascism in Germany: 'Nothing good is going to happen here for a long time.'"

From Salon

You introduced me to German Expressionism and Lubitsch and Hitchcock and such a broad collection of mostly classic and older films.

From Los Angeles Times

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