Summary: Who was Ernst Lubitsch? To the converted, Lubitsch is a cinema god. He’s the genius behind such comic masterpieces as “Trouble in Paradise” (1932), “The Shop Around the Corner” (1940) and “To Be or Not to Be” (1942). Those of us who admire him spend a good chunk of time puzzling breathlessly over how he did what he did, how he made such sexy, smart and fluid films. Alfred Hitchcock called him “a man of pure cinema.
