biography
pronunciation:
[loobich]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1947)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Berlin, Germany. A teenage actor in Max Reinhardt's theatre company, he then starred as ‘Meyer’ in a popular slapstick series before beginning his directorial career. He was invited to Hollywood by Mary Pickford, whom he directed in Rosita (1923), and stayed on to become an acknowledged master of light, sophisticated sex comedies graced with ‘the Lubitsch touch’ of elegance, including Forbidden Paradise (1924), Ninotchka (1939), and Heaven Can Wait (1943). He received an honorary Academy Award in 1947. |
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