There seems to be little that Robert Montgomery couldn’t do. From stage to screen, behind the camera and in front of it, delivering quick one-liners or dark dramatic performances, Montgomery’s rise to stardom was one of breakneck speed.
Robert Montgomery & Norma Shearer. Electric.
Two Classic (and somewhat unknown) Gems
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…