| LC control no. | n 50043553 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947 |
| Associated place | Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1892-01-28 |
| Death date | 1947-11-30 |
| Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
| Place of death | Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Motion pictures Motion picture industry Motion pictures--Production and direction Acting Silent films Feature films Short films |
| Affiliation | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Paramount Pictures, Inc. Warner Bros. Deutsches Theater (Berlin, Germany) |
| Profession or occupation | Motion picture producers and directors Actors |
| Found in | Weinberg, H. G. The Lubitsch touch, 1968. Ernst Lubitsch's That uncertain feeling, ©2007: opening credits (produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch) Information from 678 field, converted 2014-04-16 (Producer dir.) Halliwell's filmgoer's and video viewer's companion, ©1993: pages 487-488 (Ernst Lubitsch, 1892-1947; German director, once a comic actor, in a series of silent farces starring him as "Meyer"; Paramount's leading producer; the "Lubitsch touch" was a form of visual innuendo, spicy without ever being vulgar) Katz, E. The film encyclopedia, ©2008: pages 887-888 (Ernst Lubitsch; director; born January 28, 1892, Berlin; died 1947; in 1911 joined Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, where he rapidly advanced from bit parts to character leads; made his directorial debut in 1918 with Die Augen der Mummie; his success in Hollywood was astounding; while most of his silent films were made for Warner Bros., most of his early sound pictures were for Paramount; in 1935 he was appointed Paramount's production manager and subsequently produced his own films and supervised the production of films of other directors; also worked for MGM and 20th Century-Fox) International dictionary of films and filmmakers, ©2000: volume 2, pages 623-626 (Ernst Lubitsch; nationality: German/American; born Berlin, 28 January 1892; became U.S. citizen, 1936; attended the Sophien Gymnasium; actor, writer, then director of short films, from 1913; member of Adolph Zukor's Europäischen Film-Allianz (Efa), 1921; joined Warner Brothers, Hollywood, 1923; began association with Paramount, 1928; began collaboration with writer Ernest Vajda, 1930; head of production at Paramount, 1935 (relieved of post after a year); left Paramount for a three-year contract with 20th Century Fox, 1938; died Hollywood, 29 November 1947; convenient to divide Lubitch's output into three stages: his German films from 1913-1922, his Hollywood films from 1923-1934, and his Hollywood productions from 1935 until his death in 1947) Ernst Lubitsch website, May 8, 2015: biography (born January 29, 1892, Berlin; died November 30, 1947, Hollywood) |
| Associated language | eng ger |
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