TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard Decades before Mel Brooks’ “The Producers”, Ernst Lubitsch directed this backstage comedy about Nazi-occupied Poland. Not your typical idea for a light-hearted comedy, especially in 1942 (production hadn’t even quite finished when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor). But Lubitsch (a German-born Jew who…
Meaghan Walsh Gerard
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