When movie lovers speak of the "Lubitsch touch," they refer to a singular sense of style and taste, humor and humanity, that suffused the films of one of Hollywood's greatest directors. In this first ever full-length biography of Ernst Lubitsch, Scott Eyman takes readers behind the scenes of such classic films as Trouble in Paradise (1932), The Merry Widow (1934), Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop around the Corner (1940), To Be or Not to Be (1942), and Heaven Can Wait (1943), which together constitute one of the most important and influential bodies of work in Hollywood. Eyman examines both the films Lubitsch crafted and the life he lived-his great successes and his overwhelming anxieties-to create an indelible portrait of Hollywood's Golden Age and one of its most respected artists.
- ISBN10 0801865581
- ISBN13 9780801865589
- Publish Date 30 November 2000 (first published 11 April 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 December 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 432
- Language English