“The Lubitsch touch” was the brainchild of a go-getter in the Warner Bros. publicity department named Hal Wallis, when Ernst Lubitsch was under contract at the studio in the 1920s. Thus did future ...

In the years after a rigid Production Code imposed morality on American cinema, occasionally a studio would go begging to the Production Code Administration. The studio would say, "Hey, we have this ...

If you don’t see Ernst Lubitsch’s “Broken Lullaby,” playing tonight at the Stanford Theatre at 6 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., you’ll miss out on one of the most emotionally powerful movie outings you’ll ever ...

In the summer of 1943, the playwright and screenwriter Samson Raphaelson received word that Ernst Lubitsch, the Berlin-born director of such incandescent Hollywood comedies as “Trouble in Paradise,” ...

If you’re a lover of rom-coms, you’ll want to know the work of early Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch. Though Lubitsch is no longer a widely recognized name the way, say, Charlie Chaplin may be, his ...

Who knows what Maurice Chevalier saw in his horn-dog mind’s eye every time he shrugged and grinned and rolled his orbs heavenward? The same thing Mae West saw when she did it in her pictures. Come to ...

In a wedding reception 90 years in the making, three pieces of a bejeweled costume worn by Jeanette MacDonald in the 1929 Ernst Lubitsch film 'The Love Parade' were reunited on the Paramount lot, ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...