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...Royal Scandal (20th Century-Fox) was originally a play called The Czarina, a distinctly minor example of the Budapest school of perky lubricity. Some 20 years ago Director Ernst Lubitsch turned it into Forbidden Paradise, one of the shrewdest high-comedies in screen history. Producer Lubitsch's new version, which is directed by Otto (Laura) Preminger, has its points too, most of which are named Tallulah Bankhead. But all told, they just about manage to get the show...
Heaven Can Wait (20th Century-Fox) is a lengthy but frequently funny life history of an old New York skirt chaser (Don Ameche) from his brownstone puberty to his overripe old age. For years Director Ernst Lubitsch has been able to see more light touches in his cigar smoke than ever appeared in his scripts, and this Technicolored fantasy is no exception. The Lubitsch approach brings comic relief to such weary devices as the French governess, the son who is altogether too much like his wayward father, and the final personal interview with the Devil. When Lubitsch's delicate...
Divorced. Ernst Lubitsch, 51, cigar-gnashing cinema director; by his second wife, Vivian Gaye Lubitsch, 33, literary agent; after nearly seven years of marriage; in Los Angeles...
Cigar-mangling Director Ernst Lubitsch and his second wife decided to part one day last week. He was all set to leave the house when he remembered that guests were coming. "So I stayed for dinner," he reported later...
...exceptions, that show to what bad taste the movies can descend if given a chance. Anyone who has seen "Confirm or Deny" can testify to this. The latest example of Hollywood's attitude to the war is seen in "To Be Or Not To Be," Ernst Lubitsch's new farce, a very comic idea made acutely uncomfortable because the locale of the picture is Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland. In "Ninotchka" Lubitsch ribbed the foibles of the Russians and their Five Year Plan with great humor and relish. But the same formula is not successful in the present...