Release Date: February 17, 2026
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $63.96
Amazon- $79.95
OrbitDVD- $52.99
Directors: Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor
Writers: Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson, Hans Müller, Lothar Schmidt, Guy Bolton
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier, Edgar Norton
Renowned as a silent-film pioneer and the man who refined Hollywood comedy with such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner, and To Be or Not to Be, Ernst Lubitsch also had another claim to fame: he helped invent the modern movie musical. With the advent of sound, and with audiences clamoring for “talkies,” Lubitsch combined his love of European operettas and his mastery of cinema to develop this entirely new genre. These elegant, bawdy films, made before strict enforcement of the moralizing Production Code, feature some of the greatest stars of early Hollywood (Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins), as well as that elusive style of comedy that would thereafter be known as “the Lubitsch touch.”
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Prices and Links:
Criterion- $63.96
Amazon- $79.95
OrbitDVD- $52.99
Directors: Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor
Writers: Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson, Hans Müller, Lothar Schmidt, Guy Bolton
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier, Edgar Norton
Renowned as a silent-film pioneer and the man who refined Hollywood comedy with such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner, and To Be or Not to Be, Ernst Lubitsch also had another claim to fame: he helped invent the modern movie musical. With the advent of sound, and with audiences clamoring for “talkies,” Lubitsch combined his love of European operettas and his mastery of cinema to develop this entirely new genre. These elegant, bawdy films, made before strict enforcement of the moralizing Production Code, feature some of the greatest stars of early Hollywood (Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins), as well as that elusive style of comedy that would thereafter be known as “the Lubitsch touch.”
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