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To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 American black comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, and featuring Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges and Sig Ruman.
To Be or Not to Be: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart. During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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- Comedy, Romance, War
- Ernst Lubitsch
- 1942-03-06
To Be or Not to Be. As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot.
- Maria Tura
Acting couple Joseph (Jack Benny) and Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) are managing a theatrical troupe when the Nazis invade Poland. Maria is having an affair with Lieutenant Sobinski (Robert Stack ...
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- Carole Lombard
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Comedy
The resulting film was To Be or Not to Be (1942), an ahead-of-its-time black comedy that shocked critics and audiences by satirizing Hitler and his occupation of Poland while the world was in the grip of a brutal and horrifying world war.
When the Germans invade Poland to start World War II, Sobinski and his colleagues flee to England while the Turas find themselves now having to operate under severe restrictions, including shelving a comical play they had written about Adolf Hitler.
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
