Director Ernst Lubitsch hugs Claudette Colbert on the set of Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife while Gary Cooper watches
4/9/1938
Carole Lombard being perfectly adorable in To Be or Not to Be, 1942.
The film was in post-production when she died in a plane crash (January 16, 1942), and the producers decided to leave out a part that had her character ironically saying, “What can happen in a plane?”
Carole Lombard being perfectly adorable in To Be or Not to Be, 1942.
The film was in post-production when she died in a plane crash (January 16, 1942), and the producers decided to leave out a part that had her character ironically saying, “What can happen in a plane?”
Three Make a Match! Please check out my essay/booklet that comes with the Criterion Release of Ernst Lubitsch’s Pre-code masterpiece, Design for Living. Viva unconventional love!
Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch break for tea, hot and cold, on the set of Forbidden Paradise
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New York governor Herbert H. Lehman visits director Ernst Lubitsch and Merle Oberon on the set of That Uncertain Feeling
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Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Alfred Kralik: There might be a lot we don’t know about each other. You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.
Clara Novak: Well I really wouldn’t care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I’d find. Instead of a heart, a hand-bag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect, a cigarette lighter… which doesn’t work.
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