Born in Berlin in 1892 and died in 1947, Lubitsch began as an actor and director in Germany and then moved to Hollywood. His sophisticated comedies are famous for the Lubitsch touch, a way of hinting at things with wit and economy instead of saying them.
Filmography
- The Oyster Princess (1919)
- Madame DuBarry (1919)
- The Marriage Circle (1924)
- The Love Parade (1929)
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- Design for Living (1933)
- Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
- Ninotchka (1939)
- The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
- To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- Heaven Can Wait (1943)
- Cluny Brown (1946)
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