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Ernst Lubitsch
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Ernst Lubitsch was a German and American film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. Born in Berlin on January 29, 1892, he died of a myocardial infarction in Hollywood on November 30, 1947. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Lubitsch worked in the directing department and was employed by the University of Southern California. He spoke German and English.
His filmography includes works such as *Heaven Can Wait* and *Ninotchka*, the latter starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Lubitsch was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. His works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He is also recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 1947
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Heaven can wait
- Ernst Lubitsch's 'Ninotchka', starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas
- Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas
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Film & TV
Directing · Berlin, Germany
Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch". Lubitsch is best known for screwball comedies and romantic comedies, such as Trouble in…
Known for
- 100 Years of the UFA — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2017
- From Caligari to Hitler — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2015
- Hitler: A Career — Self (archive footage)1977
- The Eternal Jew — Self (archive footage)1940
- Ninotchka — Himself - Director in Trailer (uncredited)1939
- Mr. Broadway — Ernst Lubitsch1933
- Sumurun — Yeggar - the Hunchback Beggar1920
- Meyer from Berlin — Sally Meyer1919
- Käsekönig Holländer1919
- The Doll — Director in Prologue (uncredited)1919
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 75
- Total plays
- 148
Ernst Lubitsch (January 28, 1892 – November 30, 1947), was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch". In 1947 he received an Honorary Academy Award for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture, and he was nominated 3 times for Best Director. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ernst+Lubi
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range
· 1968 · cited 13,430x
- Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,860x
- Staging of brain pathology related to sporadic Parkinson’s disease
· 2003 · cited 9,240x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,924x
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Works in European collections
11 objects attributed to Ernst Lubitsch, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Ernst Lubitsch (/ˈluːbɪtʃ/; January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German and American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch". Among his best known works are Trouble in Paradise (1932), Design for Living (1933), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), To Be or Not to Be (1942) and Heaven Can Wait (1943).
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times, for The Patriot (1928), The Love Parade (1929), and Heaven Can Wait (1943); his pictures The Smiling Lieutenant and One Hour with You were also nominated for Outstanding Production in 1932. In 1946, he received an Honorary Academy Award for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture.
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