Hi there,
I love this film and I've just seen 'The shop around the corner' and I liked that one too. So could anyone tell me what other Lubitsch films I should see? Maybe you could give me a list of your five favourites? Thanx!
Hi,
Glad to hear someone else who was able to see TROUBLE IN PARADISE. This is an amazing comedy, probably my favorite film of all time.
Other Lubtisch pictures definitely worth checking out (if you can find them):
To Be Or Not to Be (1942)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Ninotchka (1939)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Design for Living (1933)-this is a hard one to find, its been out of print for years, but if you're into the precode comedies this is in a similar vein as TROUBLE IN PARADISE.
Let me know what you think of these films if you have a chance to see any of them!
Matt
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I finally saw "To Be or Not To Be", which is probably Lubitsch best film but very different from his others. "Trouble in Paradise", "Bluebbeard Eight's Wife" and "One Hour With You" are amog his best comedy.
shareI enjoyed "trouble in paradise" and "to be or not to be", but I think my favorite is still "Ninotchka"
"A policeman's job is only easy in a police state " - A Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles
Don't forget A Royal Scandal with two of my favorites Sig Rumann and Charles Coburn.
I, too, absolutely adore To Be or Not to Be.
I also liked The Smiling Lieutenant and Shop Around the Corner was very entertaining (Felix Bressert is always fun and Frank Morgan is tremendous), but I disliked the ending of Shop.
Lubitsch inspired my favourite director,the late great Billy Wilder.Saw Trouble in Paradise this morning-shows how the PCA tore the guts out of the movies to appease moralists who never had any in the first place.
shareDespite his sound-era successes, IMO Lubitsch never topped the heights of his silent "Student Prince (in Old Heidelberg)". Glorious and heartbreaking.
shareDesign for Living, which is a great witty romp with Miriam Hopkins, Gary Cooper, Frederic March, and Edward Everett Horton, recently became available on DVD as part of the bargain priced Gary Cooper Collection. The double sided two-disc set includes four other Cooper films of the '30s, notably Beau Geste and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.
shareTo be or not to be, Ninotchka, The Shop Around the Corner, and Trouble in Paradise are his most famous films. I haven't seen any of his others, but these 4 are all brilliant.
shareSome of Lubitsch's best films are among his least well-known. I would recommend several of these early films- Lady Windermere's Fan, The Love Parade, and, in particular, The Smiling Lieutenant in addition to some of those already suggested.
shareIve only seen three of his films, but all three were terrific. He is becoming one of my favorite directors.
Seen:
Heaven Can Wait
Shop Around the Corner
Trouble in Paradise
My favorites:
1. To Be or Not to Be
2. Trouble in Paradise
3. Shop Around the Corner
4. Ninotchka
5. Heaven Can Wait
6. The Merry Widow
7. That Uncertain Feeling.
...The first six are all unbelievably great. The seventh, I didn't care for so much....
And if you want to see the perfect Lubitsch movie made by another director, check out "Love Me Tonight" starring Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian in 1932 (same year as "Trouble in Paradise"), this is a deliberate sendup of the Lubitsch musicals of the time. The music is actually better than the music in Lubtisch's musicals (including the classic "Isn't It Romantic?') and it's hilariously clever and deftly inventive from beginning to end. Myrna Loy shines in a supporting role two years before appearing as Nora Charles in "The Thin Man."
shareYay! This is one of my favorite films of all time too! I love the Shop Around the Corner and I think both these films are Lubitsch's best. I've read that he felt really hampered by the Hayes Code and his work suffered for it. I've seen several of his films --including a couple at a silent film festival--and none (to me) compare to "Trouble" and "Shop." I've been trying to watch the Smiling Lieutenant since I was a little girl and read about it in a movie book, but I've never found a copy. Anyone else?
Ninotchka is pretty good, but it's just so hard to top these other two films!
His best is "Trouble in Paradise." After that are his underrated musicals, all of them out of release except "The Merry Widow": "The Love Parade", "Monte Carlo", "The Smiling Lieutenant" and "One Hour with You". Maybe "Angel" should be up there too, although the Hollywood code hampered it.
shareHis very best is Broken Lullaby (The Man I Killed)
shareI wasn't impressed.
shareI always wanted to see that film. It's Lubitsch's only drama I think.
I've seen 10 of his films and there's not a single bad film in that bunch. My favourite is The Merry Widow, for it's poetry, like the scene of Maurice Chevalier conducting his stand-in to serenade the Widow(which was only possible because Chevalier's voice wasn't right for the bit) and of course the famous waltz scene at the palace. Bogdanovich rates it as his favourite Lubitsch as well.
After that The Shop Around The Corner and To Be or Not To Be.
People dissapear ever day...sometimes when you leave the room - The Passenger
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My fave is Royal Scandal, even though picture credit went to Otto Preminger. It's got the hand of the master (Lubitsch) all over it.
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