Movie
1942
To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 American black comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, and featuring Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, and Sig Ruman. The plot concerns a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops. It was adapted by Lubitsch (uncredited) and Edwin…
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Hollywood was never as disciplined and unlikely to ruffle any feathers as during its Classic era. And this rigid state of affairs was even more rigid after the United States entered the Second World War, when filmmakers had to contend not only with the prudishness of the Hays Code but also with official government censorship and the needs of wartime propaganda. This, however, didn’t mean that some films made during…More
