The films of Ernst Lubitsch are often described as having been made with "the Lubitsch touch." It's a phrase that makes it sound as if each movie was hit with a dash of nutmeg. But Lubitsch didn't ...

In four short years, Lubitsch and his talented collaborators put together four complete book musicals, all with original songs, all sung live during shooting, with the orchestra right off camera. This ...

This rarely shown Ernst Lubitsch musical (1931), derived from the Oscar Straus operetta The Waltz Dream, matches up Viennese lieutenant Maurice Chevalier with both Claudette Colbert (as leader of an ...

Directors like Rob Marshall, Bill Condon, Adam Shankman and Tim Burton might be the latest filmmakers to craft engaging cinematic musicals, but, back when sound was new to the art form, it was German ...

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The name Ernst Lubitsch may not be as familiar to casual movie-goers as Frank Capra, Howard Hawks or John Ford, but some would argue he ought to be. The German-born filmmaker, who died at the age of ...

Maurice Chevalier’s leering officer is caught between two sylph-like hotties—Claudette Colbert’s band-leading violinist and Miriam Hopkins’s spoiled princess—in this Ruritanian quasi operetta ...