This was a wonderful podcast series. Thank you for making it. I've learned so much listening to these discussions.

It's "kohlheesl", the broad sister's name is pronounced "leesl kohlheesl" The "aye" pronunciation is when the letters are ei, when theyre ie it's pronounced "ee"

This film was based on a play by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar. How did Wilder adapt it to film?

This is a pretty crummy cigar. Don't worry, we sold them some pretty crummy rockets.

I love an enterprise so microscopically monomanical. Congratulations, boys. How can you top this? A series of Alan Ladd outtakes, maybe?

I'm so glad this discussion popped up in my feed. I first saw this film years ago - my father introduced me to so many great films of this era. Your discussion gave me a much deeper appreciation of the film, and i will definitely be re-watching this weekend and recommending it to friends!

The painting of Laura is actually a photograph painted over.

My compliments on the engaging conversation. I experience Napoleon as myth because I've only been able to think about the film in the 40 years since the only time I've seen it, which was the Coppola version in the USA. I'm aware of the restoration work since then and have wondered whether to see the film again or allow the film to remain a mythic revelation about how we the audience might have learned to see cinema is film culture followed Gance's vision. There's comfort in remembering the shadows on the wall and imagining reality. Your conversation encourages me to step out into the light, even if that light come from a Blu-ray disc in the absence of Abel's Cathedral of Light.

Hi, this in my algorithm, I don't know anyone or anything about anything I've read in the description. I feeling very un cultured right.

I don’t see this film as cynical. Parts of it fit the dictionary definition of cynicism while others contradict it. One could make an argument for it as a cynical piece, but the film doesn’t seem to be judging its characters for their self-interest. It finds a bit of tragedy in the fact that Madame Colet and Gaston can’t also have their happy ending, AND celebrates the union of two people who were clearly meant for each other.

Great discussion

Love the dunking conversation

Wow! A Stenographer...

Great ive been waiting for this one and To Be Or Not To Be ive been doing a writing project on Lubitsch and really enjoying it. My local classic movie theatre just played Design For Living and i loved seeing it in a theatre

Why is this unavailable on dvd or bluray?

Ernst at his most earnest.The Hawks film you are thinking of is ROAD TO GLORY(1936),which is also a failure by a major director.

I would love a Von Sternberg podcast like this great series.

Great overview of my favorite Lubitsch, my favorite Christmas movie and one of my favorite films, period. I watch it every year and have yet to show it to someone who didn't love it. Fantastic cast is perfectly in tune with Lubitsch's vision. I've never had a problem with Stewart winning the Oscar for the same-year's "The Philadelphia Story" (which many label a "make up" Oscar for him not winning the previous year), due to his beautiful work in the then-overlooked "Corner."

"If I Had A Million" is a deeply underrated film that is sadly rarely seen! Richard Bennett should've gotten an Oscar nomination for his role.

Watched it on Internet Archive, sadly prescient, even of the young star, who would himself be killed in WWII.

Music from To Be or Not to Be?

Great podcast love Lubitsch and Wilder i have been doing a writing project on directors including both these guys

Excellent! Very interesting discussion, and I'm impressed with the guest, his insights and how well he expressed them

Love this film great podcast

I came across Broken Lullaby many years ago and it became one of my favorite films. The story is beautifully told, although one needs to be patient with the melodramatic elements that echo the acting typical of silent film. The antiwar message, its portrayal of sorrow and grief, the guilt of the soldier who kills against his own moral beliefs and how he attempts to cope with this after the war, the paradoxical ending all blend to give us a rather unique and moving story I was able to order a DVD copy around 1990 from a universtity's film department, as I recall. The more current "re-make" of a few years ago called "Frantz" drastically alters the story, especially the ending, and I found it quite weak and disappointing.

Great movie good podcast

love this movie great podcast

Devan, what happened to the film formally podcast ?

Thank you for this episode. This was a great way to get into the topic of film lightning. I really learned a lot about (early) cinema challenges, that I wasn't aware of.

Kay Francis stated she did any film offered to her as her primary goal was money. She was not picky as to film roles and just took whatever role the Studio wanted her to star in which in the end (around 1968) did not work to her advantage even though at her death she left her million dollar estate to the Seeing Eye Dog organization.

There is a biography or autobiography on Kay Francis of which can't remember the title, but seems it was "I can't Wait to be Forgotten". Let me know if you can remember the correct title.

Miriam Hopkins was the only comic relief in "The Heiress". Hopkins and Montgomery Clift were great friends.

I am always amazed at how Herbert Marshall's loss of one leg is so well hidden in his films.

Miriam Hopkins had a very long and successful career with an ending role in "The Chase". (her actual last film was Hollywood Horror House but was never formally released). She starred opposite Marlon Brando and in their primary scene upstages the great Brando. Miriam Hopkins was a good friend with Tennessee Williams and starred in his first staged performance in Boston, Mass based on "The Fugitive Kind" Her role in the "Outer Limits" (Don't Open til Doomsday) on television cemented her lengthy career in the movies, Stage, Radio and television. She opened the second season of LUX Radio Theater on 2 separate occasions.

William Powell lived out his long life in Palm Springs, California. He and his charming wife were noted for giving some of the most elegant parties within the Palm Springs community.

Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis were good friends and both were at the height of their careers in the early 1930's. Ernst Lubitsch considered Miriam Hopkins his favorite Actress! Quite a complement.

This is one of the few times I love the play and this movie, even though Lubitsch changed almost everything! Both are brilliant in their own way!

The sets, camera movements and music add to the charm of this film.

The opening of "Trouble in Paradise" is one of the most memorable of any film ever made, and Billy Wilder also thought this to be the case.

Miriam Hopkins was an ardent follower of Numerology which did not serve her well over the years. Miriam Hopkins was offered the leads in "It Happened One Night" and "To Be or Not To BE" and turned down both parts as the numbers were not right. A real shame as she would have been magnificent in both films.

Ernst Lubitsch's favorite Actress was Miriam Hopkins. Miriam Hopkins remains a bright light in the films of Ernst Lubitsch especially her performance in "Trouble in Paradise".

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Woo, hoo! I love this movie so much and am thrilled to see an in depth dive!

4:51 "If you were thinking that something THIS Well oiled and this Smoothly Produced and THIS Functional couldn't be Legal...well you would be Right." -Bob Moviebob Chipman leading into him Bringing Up USA V.S. Paramount Pictures on Golden Age Studios being able to Own their own theatres as the Deathblow of the Golden Age of Hollywood Adolph Zukor: I missed the Part where that's My problem

Very knowledgable.

Excellent throughout !!