Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch ( Berlin, January 28, 1892 – November 30, 1947 in Hollywood), was a German-born Jewish film director.

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.