Ernst Lubitsch
Noun
Meaning
German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947)
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Just as the Nazis shot themselves in the foot by throwing out the "disapproved" scientists like Albert Einstein, they lost some great artists who they disdained as "decadent" not to mention film diectors (like Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch).
The Italian superspectacle stimulated public demand for features and influenced such important directors as Cecil B. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch, and especially D.W. Griffith.
Unsuccessful in this aim, she returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock 's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Ernst Lubitsch 's To Be or Not to Be (1942) – her final film role.