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Ernst Lubitsch (January 28, 1892 - 1947) was an American film director of German origin. He moved to the United States at the age of thirty in 1922.

Selected Filmography

• The Love Parade (1930) - a musical film and Lubitsch's first sound film;
• Monte Carlo (1930)
• Trouble in Paradise (1932)
• One Hour with You (1932)
• Design for Living (1933)
• The Merry Widow (1934)
• Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
• Ninotchka (1939) - starring Greta Garbo
• To Be Or Not To Be (1942) - satirized the Nazis through the tribulations of a troupe of actors in occupied Poland.