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XXIV:4) Ernst Lubitsch, to BE OR NOT to BE (1942, 99 Min.) February 7, 2012 (XXIV:4) Ernst Lubitsch, TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942, 99 min.) Directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch Original story by Melchior Lengyel Ernst Lubitsch Screenplay by Edwin Justus Mayer Original Music by Werner R. Heymann Cinematography by Rudolph Maté Film Editing by Dorothy Spencer Production Design by Vincent Korda Selected for the National Film Registry, 1996. Carole Lombard...Maria Tura Jack Benny...Joseph Tura Robert Stack...Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski Felix Bressart...Greenberg Lionel Atwill...Rawitch Stanley Ridges...Professor Siletsky Sig Ruman...Col. Ehrhardt Tom Dugan...Bronski Charles Halton...Producer Dobosh 1932 Trouble in Paradise, 1932 One Hour with You, 1932 George Lynn...Actor-Adjutant Broken Lullaby, 1931 The Smiling Lieutenant, 1930 Monte Henry Victor…Capt. Schultz Carlo, 1928 The Patriot, 1927 The Student Prince in Old Maude Eburne...Anna Heidelberg, 1925 Lady Windermere's Fan, 1924 The Marriage Halliwell Hobbes...Gen. Armstrong Circle, and 1915 Zucker und Zimmt. Miles Mander...Major Cunningham EDWIN JUSTUS MAYER (November 8, 1896, New York City, New York – September 11, 1960, New York City, New York) ERNST LUBITSCH (January 28, 1892, Berlin, Germany – has 48 Hollywood writing credits, among them 1958 The November 30, 1947, Hollywood, California) has 76 directing Buccaneer (1938 script), 1953 “Broadway Television Theatre” credits (some of which are 1948 That Lady in Ermine, 1946 (play - “The Firebrand”), 1945 Masquerade in Mexico (story), Cluny Brown, 1943 Heaven Can Wait, 1942 To Be or Not to Be, 1945 A Royal Scandal, 1942 To Be or Not to Be, 1941 They Met 1941 That Uncertain Feeling, 1940 The Shop Around the in Bombay, 1941 Underground (story), 1940 Lucky Partners, Corner, 1939 Ninotchka, 1938 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, 1937 1939 Rio, 1939 Exile Express, 1939 Midnight (story), 1938 The Angel, 1935 La veuve joyeuse, 1934 The Merry Widow, 1933 Buccaneer, 1936 Till We Meet Again, and 1932 Wild Girl. Design for Living, 1932 Trouble in Paradise, 1927 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, 1926 So This Is Paris, 1925 Lady WERNER R. HEYMANN (February 14, 1896, Königsberg, East Windermere's Fan, 1921 The Wildcat, 1919 The Doll, 1919 Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) – May 30, 1961, Madame DuBarry, 1918 Carmen, 1915 Der letzte Anzug, 1914 Munich, Germany) composed the scores for 114 films, including Fräulein Seifenschaum) and 24 producer credits (1948 That Lady 1960 Bombs on Monte Carlo, 1956 Le chemin du paradis, 1955 in Ermine, 1946 Cluny Brown, 1946 Dragonwyck, 1945 A Royal Die Drei von der Tankstelle, 1955 Der Kongreß tanzt, 1950 Scandal, 1943 Heaven Can Wait, 1942 To Be or Not to Be, 1941 Emergency Wedding, 1950 A Woman of Distinction, 1949 A Kiss That Uncertain Feeling, 1940 The Shop Around the Corner, for Corliss, 1949 Tell It to the Judge, 1948 The Mating of Millie, 1939 Ninotchka, 1938 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, 1937 Angel, 1947 The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, 1945 Hold That Blonde, 1936 Desire, 1934 The Merry Widow, 1933 Design for Living, 1945 Kiss and Tell, 1944 Three Is a Family, 1944 My Pal Wolf, Lubitsch—TO BE OR NOT TO BE—2 1944 Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, 1944 Hail the Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1942 Jungle Book, 1942 To Be or Not to Conquering Hero, 1944 Knickerbocker Holiday, 1944 Henry Be, 1941 Lydia, 1941 Major Barbara, 1941 That Hamilton Aldrich, Boy Scout, 1943 Appointment in Berlin, 1942 A Night to Woman, 1941 Old Bill and Son, 1940 The Thief of Bagdad, 1940 Remember, 1941 Topper Returns, 1940 One Million B.C., 1940 21 Days Together, 1939 The Four Feathers, 1939 The Spy in The Shop Around the Corner, 1939 Ninotchka, 1938 Bluebeard's Black, and 1938 Drums), and has art department credit for 15 Eighth Wife, 1934 Caravane, 1926 It's Easy to Become a Father, films (1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce, 1952 Breaking the Sound 1926 A Sister of Six, 1926 Faust, and 1926 Die Brüder Barrier, 1952 Murder on Monday, 1949 The Third Man, 1948 Schellenberg. The Fallen Idol, 1947 An Ideal Husband, 1939 The Four Feathers, 1939 The Spy in Black, 1938 Drums, 1937 Murder on RUDOLPH MATÉ (b. Rudolf Mayer, January 21, 1898, Krakau, Diamond Row, 1936 The Man Who Could Work Miracles, 1936 Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland] – Rembrandt, 1936 Things to Come, 1935 The Ghost Goes West, October 27, 1964, Hollywood, California) has 71 and 1933 The Private Life of Henry VIII). cinematographer credits, some of which are 1947 The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 It Had to Be You, 1947 Down to Earth, 1946 CAROLE LOMBARD...Maria Tura (b. Jane Alice Peters, October Gilda, 1943/I Sahara, 1942 The Pride of the Yankees, 1942 To 6, 1908, Fort Wayne, Indiana – January 16, 1942, Table Rock Be or Not to Be, 1941 It Started with Eve, 1941 The Flame of Mountain, Nevada) appeared in 78 films. She was killed in a New Orleans, 1940 Seven Sinners, 1940 Foreign Correspondent, plane crash before To Be or Not to Be was released in 1942. 1940 My Favorite Wife, 1939 Love Affair, 1938 Trade Winds, Some of her other films were 1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith, 1940 They 1938 The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1937 Stella Dallas, 1936 Knew What They Wanted, 1939 Made for Each Other, 1938 Come and Get It, 1936 Dodsworth, 1936 A Message to Garcia, Fools for Scandal, 1937 True Confession, 1936 My Man 1936 Charlie Chan's Secret, 1935 Metropolitan, 1935 Dante's Godfrey, 1936 Love Before Breakfast, 1935 Rumba, 1934 Inferno, 1933 The Merry Monarch, 1932 Monsieur Albert, 1932 Twentieth Century, 1934 Bolero, 1933 White Woman, 1933 Vampyr, 1932 Lily Christine, 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc, Supernatural, 1933 From Hell to Heaven, 1932 No Man of Her 1921 Lucifer, and 1920 Das Gänsemädchen. Own, 1932 No One Man, 1931 Ladies' Man, 1929 High Voltage, 1928 Me, Gangster, and 1927 My Best Girl. DOROTHY SPENCER (February 3, 1909, Covington, Kentucky – May 23, 2002, Encinitas, California) edit 73 films, among them JACK BENNY...Joseph Tura (b. Benjamin Kubelsky, February 1979 The Concorde... Airport '79, 1974 Earthquake, 1972 14, 1894, Chicago, Illinois – December 26, 1974, Holmby Hills, Limbo, 1971 Happy Birthday, Wanda June, 1969 Daddy's Gone Los Angeles, California) was best known as a comedian on radio A-Hunting, 1967 Valley of the Dolls, 1967 A Guide for the and television. He appeared in 46 TV series and films, among Married Man, 1966 Lost Command, 1965 Von Ryan's Express, them 1972 “The Man”, 1971 “Kraft Music Hall Presents: The 1963 Cleopatra, 1960 From the Terrace, 1958 The Young Lions, Des O'Connor Show”, 1970 “The Kraft Music Hall”, 1964-1967 1957 A Hatful of Rain, 1956 The Best Things in Life Are Free, “The Lucy Show”, 1967 A Guide for the Married Man, 1950- 1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1955 The Rains of 1965 “The Jack Benny Program” (251 episodes), 1963 It's a Mad Ranchipur, 1955 The Left Hand of God, 1955 Soldier of Fortune, Mad Mad Mad World, 1962 “Checkmate”, 1960 “The Slowest 1955 Prince of Players, 1954 Black Widow, 1954 Broken Lance, Gun in the West”, 1951-1957 “The George Burns and Gracie 1954 Demetrius and the Gladiators, 1954 Night People, 1952 Allen Show”, 1953-1957 “G.E. True Theater”, 1955 “The Jackie What Price Glory, 1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1946 My Gleason Show”, 1955 “Four Star Playhouse”, 1953 “Omnibus”, Darling Clementine, 1946 Cluny Brown, 1946 Dragonwyck, 1945 The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1944 Hollywood Canteen, 1945 A Royal Scandal, 1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1944 1943 The Meanest Man in the World, 1942 George Washington Lifeboat, 1943 Heaven Can Wait, 1942 To Be or Not to Be, 1940 Slept Here, 1942 To Be or Not to Be, 1941 Charley's Aunt, 1938 Foreign Correspondent, 1940 The House Across the Bay, 1939 Artists and Models Abroad, 1937 Artists & Models, 1936 College Stagecoach, 1934 She Was a Lady, 1934 Such Women Are Holiday, 1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, 1930 The Dangerous, 1934 Coming-Out Party, and 1929 Married in Medicine Man, and 1930 Chasing Rainbows Hollywood. ROBERT STACK...Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski (January 13, 1919, VINCENT KORDA (b. Vincent Kellner, June 22, 1897, Túrkeve, Los Angeles, California – May 14, 2003, Beverly Hills, Hungary – January 4, 1979, London, England) won a best art California) appeared in 95 films and TV series, among them direction Oscar for The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He was art 2001 “Butt-Ugly Martians”, 2001 “King of the Hill”, 2001 Killer director for 18 films (1962 The Longest Day, 1960 Scent of Bud, 1996 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, 1991 “The Return Mystery, 1945 Vacation from Marriage, 1941 Major Barbara, of Eliot Ness”, 1990 “The Fanelli Boys”, 1990 Joe Versus the 1941 Old Bill and Son, 1940 The Thief of Bagdad, 1939 The Lion Volcano, 1989 Dangerous Curves, 1988 Caddyshack II, 1987 Has Wings, 1939 Clouds Over Europe, 1938/I Prison Without “Falcon Crest”, 1986 “Murder, She Wrote”, 1981-1982 “Strike Bars, 1938 The Challenge, 1937 Action for Slander, 1936 Men Force” (20 episodes), 1980 Airplane!, 1979 1941, 1976-1977 Are Not Gods, 1935 I Stand Condemned, 1934 The Rise of “Most Wanted” (22 episodes), 1968-1971 “The Name of the Catherine the Great, 1933 La dame de chez Maxim's, 1932 Game” (26 episodes), 1966 Is Paris Burning?, 1959-1963 “The Wedding Rehearsal, 1931 Längtan till havet, and 1931 Marius); Untouchables” (119 episodes), 1954 The High and the Mighty, production designer for 18 films (1960 Scent of Mystery, 1955 1952 Bwana Devil, 1951 Bullfighter and the Lady, 1942 To Be or Storm Over the Nile, 1955 The Deep Blue Sea, 1955 Not to Be, 1941 Badlands of Dakota, and 1939 First Love.
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