Lubitsch went independent to direct That Uncertain Feeling ( 1941, a remake of his 1925 film Kiss Me Again ), and the dark anti-Nazi farce To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ), which was Jack Benny's only major screen success and Carole Lombard's last picture.

" Negri was concerned that Paramount was mishandling her career and image, and arranged for her former director Ernst Lubitsch to direct her in the critically acclaimed Forbidden Paradise ( 1924 ).

The most important of the new film producers at the time was Joe May, who made a series of thrillers and adventure films through the war years, but Ernst Lubitsch also came into prominence with a series of very successful comedies and dramas.

The most elegant variants occur in some films Ernst Lubitsch made in 1919.

However, after the end of the war some of the brighter young directors such as Lubitsch started using a few reverse-angle cuts, mostly in association with Point of View cutting.

In Germany, Ernst Lubitsch got his inspiration from the stage work of Max Reinhardt, both in bourgeois comedy and in spectacle, and applied this to his films, culminating in his die Puppe ( The Doll ), die Austernprinzessin ( The Oyster Princess ) and Madame Dubarry.

Cukor was then assigned to One Hour With You ( 1932 ), an operetta with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, when original director Ernst Lubitsch opted to concentrate on producing the film instead.

At first the two men worked well together, but two weeks into filming Lubitsch began arriving on the set on a regular basis, and he soon began directing scenes with Cukor's consent.

Upon the film's completion, Lubitsch approached Paramount general manager B. P. Schulberg and threatened to leave the studio if Cukor's name wasn't removed from the credits.

In the West, Meher Baba met with a number of celebrities and artists, including Hollywood notables Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff, Tom Mix, Maurice Chevalier, Ernst Lubitsch and others.

* Trouble in Paradise ( 1932 ), d. Ernst Lubitsch

* Bluebeard's Eighth Wife ( 1938 ), d. Ernst Lubitsch

* Ninotchka ( 1939 ), d. Ernst Lubitsch

* That Uncertain Feeling ( 1941 ), d. Ernst Lubitsch

* To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ), d. Ernst Lubitsch

More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director ; Harry Rapf left the studio and accepted an offer to work at MGM.

Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners was still unable to achieve star power.

While Don Juan was a success at the box office, it did not recoup its production cost and Lubitsch left Warner for MGM.

* January 28 – Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director ( d. 1947 )

The School ’ s founding faculty included Fairbanks ( President of the Academy ), D. W. Griffith, William C. deMille, Ernst Lubitsch, Irving Thalberg, and Darryl F. Zanuck.

Lombard's final film, " To Be or Not to Be " ( 1942 ), directed by Ernst Lubitsch and co-starring Jack Benny, a satire about Nazism and World War II, was in post-production at the time of her death.

In seeking for such meaning and purpose, Albert Schweitzer seized upon the concept of the `` sacredness of life ''.

Mr. Eisenhower seized upon the incident of the postcard lost by a Peace Corps girl in Nigeria to attack the entire Corps as a `` juvenile experiment '' and to suggest sending a Corps member to the moon.

:" During his journey he seized the opportunity to make a detour to Birka, which is now reduced to loneliness so that one can hardly find vestiges of the city ; therefore impossible to come upon the tomb of the holy Archbishop Unni.

Soon after, the Duke neglected to send to Confucius a portion of the sacrificial meat that was his due according to custom, and Confucius seized upon this pretext to leave both his post and the Lu state.

In 719, Charles seized West Frisia without any great resistance on the part of the Frisians, who had been subjects of the Franks but had seized control upon the death of Pippin.

The bishop also seized the body of Ammonius and put it in a church, conferring upon him the title of Thaumasius and putting his name in the list of the martyrs.

Some youth of Generation Y have seized upon activities which they can claim as their own, and have begun rejecting more traditional sports in increasing numbers.

In 1837, Osceola was seized by deceit upon the orders of U. S. General T. S.

In the wake of the bombing, the national media seized upon the fact that nineteen of the victims had been babies and children, many in the day-care center.

A highly introspective man, he shaped the nascent humanist movement a great deal because many of the internal conflicts and musings expressed in his writings were seized upon by Renaissance humanist philosophers and argued continually for the next 200 years.

When she first appears before gods and mortals, " wonder seized them " as they looked upon her.

The graphic was popularized in the early 1970s by Philadelphia brothers Bernard and Murray Spain, who seized upon it in September 1970 in a campaign to sell novelty items.

The implication in Justice Black's footnote that secular humanism is a religion has been seized upon by religious opponents of the teaching of evolution, who have made the argument that teaching evolution amounts to teaching a religious idea.

Someone paid his debt and upon his release he was seized by parties and taken to Fort Niagara, after which he disappeared.

Even though Gadamer's interpretation of Heidegger has been questioned, there is little doubt that Heidegger seized upon Dilthey's concept of hermeneutics.

The latter having seized upon Nantes, of which the counts of Anjou held themselves to be suzerains, Fulk Nerra came and laid siege to it, routing Conan's army at the battle of Conquereuil ( 27 June 992 ) and re-establishing Nantes under his own suzerainty.

This stemmed from the Zhou and was seized upon by the Qin, as such variations were seen as contrary to the unification that the government strove to achieve.

* First, these raptures sometimes seized upon her whole being with such force as to compel her to rapid motion ( e. g. towards some sacred object ).

Governor Lorentz raised enormous taxes upon them and seized warehouses and cargoes of tobacco, sugar, and slaves in 1689 only to have his actions repudiated by the authorities in Copenhagen ; his hasty action to seize Crab Island prohibited the Brandenburgers from establishing their own Caribbean colony, however.

The Prime Directive was not actually written into law until some years after the formation of the Federation — in the Star Trek episode " A Piece of the Action ," an early Federation ship, the Horizon, visited a primitive planet and left behind several items which altered the planet's culture significantly — most notably the book Chicago Mobs Of The Twenties, which the inhabitants quickly seized upon as a blueprint for their entire society.

The Lombards held the cities of Imola, Osimo, Bologna, and Ancona, which were claimed by Rome, and in 758 seized upon the duchies of Spoleto and Benevento.

Other possible influences on modern stripping were the dances of the Ghawazee " discovered " and seized upon by French colonists in 19th century North Africa and Egypt.

The opposition tang wai activists seized upon the new image of the Plains aborigines as a means to directly challenge the KMT's official narrative of Taiwan as a historical part of China, and the government's assertion that Taiwanese were " pure " Han Chinese (; ).

Hubbard described the Pequot as " foreigners " to the region, though not invaders from another shore, but " from the interior of the continent " who " by force seized upon one of the goodliest places near the sea, and became a Terror to all their Neighbors.