Ernst Lubitsch (January 28, 1892 - 1947) was an American film director of German origin. He moved to the United States at the age of thirty in 1922.
Selected Filmography The Love Parade (1930) - a musical film and Lubitsch's first sound film; Monte Carlo (1930) Trouble in Paradise (1932) One Hour with You (1932) Design for Living (1933) The Merry Widow (1934) Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) Ninotchka (1939) - starring Greta Garbo To Be Or Not To Be (1942) - satirized the Nazis through the tribulations of a troupe of actors in occupied Poland.