ErnstLubitsch &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:ErnstLubitsch @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:39:49 +0200 Die Puppe [The Doll] (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/die-puppe-1919 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Die Puppe [The Doll] (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" Stupid Toy Day/div div class="img" Die Puppe (1919)/div div class="caption" The doll (Ossi Oswalda) mischievously sticks out her tongue. DPs: Theodor Sparkuhl & Kurt Waschneck ./div div class="txt" A ridiculous toy for Stupid Toy Day.\ "She must have one complex mechanism!" ### – Lancelot /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2024FilmChallenge #StupidToyDay #toys #dolls #ErnstLubitsch #ETAHoffmann #MaxKronert #HermannThimig #VictorJanson #MargaKöhler #OssiOswalda #GerhardRitterband #JakobTiedtke #JosefineDora #TheodorSparkuhl #KurtWaschneck #comedy #fantasy #SilentFilm #Germany #1910s/div /section ]]>

Die Puppe [The Doll] (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)

Dec

16

Stupid Toy Day

Die Puppe (1919)

The doll (Ossi Oswalda) mischievously sticks out her tongue. DPs: Theodor Sparkuhl & Kurt Waschneck .

A ridiculous toy for Stupid Toy Day.

“She must have one complex mechanism!”

– Lancelot

#Bales2024FilmChallenge #StupidToyDay #toys #dolls #ErnstLubitsch #ETAHoffmann #MaxKronert #HermannThimig #VictorJanson #MargaKöhler #OssiOswalda #GerhardRitterband #JakobTiedtke #JosefineDora #TheodorSparkuhl #KurtWaschneck #comedy #fantasy #SilentFilm #Germany #1910s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/die-puppe-1919 Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:55:42 +0100 Ninotchka (1939) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ninotchka-1939 <![CDATA[Ninotchka (1939) Ninotchka and Leon (Garbo and Douglas) cracking up. DP: William H. Daniels. Ninotchka (1939) ### July 1: a joke for #InternationalJokeDay Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) Garbo laughs! The great Garbo was known for her beauty, her coolness, her tragedy, for a lot but her laughter. So typecast she became that the tagline for Ninotchka (1939) – Garbo laughs! – is a #joke in itself. Penned by the great Billy Wilder, the Ernst Lubitsch directed comedy unexpectedly temporarily revived #Garbo's career, who by the time 1938 came around had become box office poison. And the joke? Well… ##### A man comes into a restaurant. He sits down at the table and he says, “Waiter, bring me a cup of coffee without cream.” Five minutes later, the waiter comes back and says, “I'm sorry, sir, we have no cream. Can it be without milk?” Ninotchka (1939) #Bales2023FilmChallenge #ErnstLubitsch #BillyWilder #GretaGarbo #MelvynDouglas #WernerRHeymann #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #communism #romance #USA #1930s todo]]> Ninotchka (1939)
Ninotchka and Leon (Garbo and Douglas) cracking up. DP: William H. Daniels.

Ninotchka (1939)

July 1: a joke for #InternationalJokeDay

Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)

Garbo laughs!

The great Garbo was known for her beauty, her coolness, her tragedy, for a lot but her laughter. So typecast she became that the tagline for Ninotchka (1939) – Garbo laughs! – is a #joke in itself.

Penned by the great Billy Wilder, the Ernst Lubitsch directed comedy unexpectedly temporarily revived #Garbo's career, who by the time 1938 came around had become box office poison. And the joke? Well…

A man comes into a restaurant. He sits down at the table and he says, “Waiter, bring me a cup of coffee without cream.” Five minutes later, the waiter comes back and says, “I'm sorry, sir, we have no cream. Can it be without milk?”

Ninotchka (1939)

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #ErnstLubitsch #BillyWilder #GretaGarbo #MelvynDouglas #WernerRHeymann #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #communism #romance #USA #1930s

#todo

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