Comments on: Happy (posthumous) Birthday Ernst Lubitsch!

By: TCM’s Classic Movie Blog

TCM’s Classic Movie Blog — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:02:11 +0000

[...] to Fay Bainter and Aline MacMahon, and to dozens of unforgettable character actors, to directors Ernst Lubitsch and Preston Sturges, to movies like These Three (1936), Ninotchka (1939), The Mortal Storm (1940), [...]

By: vero l

vero l — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:14:00 +0000

Okay so I was wrong . . the classics are represented . . . but "Ghost"? Ug

By: Vero L

Vero L — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:06:06 +0000

Little Shop Around The Corner was only 28th best love story? Puhleeze . . Pity . . .I bet some drivel like Top Gun beat it out. America has a 10 second attention span and can only reach back about 10 years of memory to pull out their all time favorite movie. (okay, I'm relinquishing my soap box). I guess I ought to check out the list before I sound off.

By: Mrs. Rutledge

Mrs. Rutledge — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:08:10 +0000

Thanks for the excellent list and for the remembrance of this wonderful director. For my friends who don’t like “old” movies, I often suggest they see “Trouble in Paradise.” It’s a blast of pre-code sophistication and sexy elegance that seems to trigger an appreciation of classic movies.

By: MDR

MDR — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:03:09 +0000

Three other noteworthy Lubitsch films:The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) – which pairs the titled prince Ramon Novarro (under the tutelage of Jean Hersholt) with Norma Shearer.The Patriot (1928) – one of the most famous now lost silent films, which earned writer Hanns Kräly his Academy Award and received several other (unofficial) nominations.The Love Parade (1929) – the director is credited with this first pairing of Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, who went on to star in a number of other Lubitsch romantic comedies with music, like this one.