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...Betty again). She is struggling to save her domain from the grip of a handsome Hungarian hussar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). "It wasn't exactly down my alley," Betty confesses, "and it looked as if it might have been pretty hard for me to do." But the late Ernst Lubitsch, the director whose magic made exquisite comedy of Jeanette MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such musicals as The Love Parade and The Merry Widow, probably had some good idea what he was about when he picked Betty (Lubitsch died before it was finished and Director Otto Preminger...
...neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost leading men. Gilbert had the edge on heavy-breathing love scenes and Colman on elegance and versatility. Colman was equally proficient in beglamored melodrama (Beau Geste, which he still considers his best picture) and in drawing-room comedy (the late Ernst Lubitsch's silently epigrammatic version of Lady Windermere...
Left, by Hollywood Director Ernst Lubitsch, to his nine-year-old daughter, Nicola: the bulk of his estate, worth an estimated $1,000,000. To his divorced wife, Nicola's mother: 15% of the estate...
Died. Ernst Lubitsch, 55, roguish ("Puck with a cigar") movie producer-director who got his famed "Lubitsch touch" from the late wunderbare Producer-Director Max Reinhardt and left it on a score of sophisticated implausibilities (Monte Carlo, Ninotchka, Cluny Brown); of a heart ailment; in Bel-Air, Calif. Lubitsch, whose German-made Gypsy Blood and Passion brought Emil Jannings, Pola Negri and a grace-note style of cinema comedy to the U.S. in 1919, was one of the first European directors to earn-and keep-Hollywood's cash-&-carry respect...
...clear now except for two things. If all these people, like Lubitsch and Hoffenstein, are as good as you say they are, how can they be as bad as you say they are? And why has "Cluny Brown" been a popular success...