Billy Wilder On "The Lubitsch Touch"

[@MarcBrewer]

Genius appreciates genius

[@calcecini]

Wilder is here talking about a scene from "The Merry Widow", not as he states, "The Smiling Liutenant". Both are great films recently re issued on dvd and highly recommended.

[@MrPhilthy23]

There is no such scene in The Merry Widow.

[@swanstep]

@phil alf. Oh yes there is. It's at 25 mins in, and it's excerpted here on youtube: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaXOlnhqmMiVprc

[@Freyathrith]

@@MrPhilthy23 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaXOlnhqmMiVprc

[@luomodagliocchidifalco9421]

I think he was talking about “The Smiling Liutenant”, but he messed up the actress name. She’s not Una Merkel, but Claudette Colbert.

[@jairaugusto9289]

@@MrPhilthy23 yes there is.

[@stephenstephen1505]

Two of the greats

[@jeffneis553]

THE BEST OF THE BEST.

[@GorgeousMonty]

Wow! Thank you for posting!!!!

[@romanclay1913]

Wilder had a sign in his study: "What would Lubitsch do?" I have a sign in my study: "What would Wilder do?"

[@acdragonrider]

What would Hitchcock do?

[@JasonDeline]

I have a sign in my study: "What would @romanclay1913 do?"

[@richardmcleod1930]

Ernst Lubitsch oftentimes said Miriam Hopkins was his favorite star. Miriam Hopkins starred in 5 films of Lubitsch.

[@Cleon29Warrior]

@GhostSnake No, its' "The Lubitsch Touch".

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[@r.a.mpictures]

Totally agree

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[@GhostSnake]

The Lubritsch Touch?

[@iododendron3416]

0:29 Mexican John Cleese

[@GAZDAGP]

Yea and John Cleese is a British AFI student..WTF

[@1995Hackar]

You should start by giving them a piece of paper at the start of the lecture, that way everybody can follow what you are saying as you are saying it. I couldn't follow the exercise.

[@abnerdupuis7110]

Iain Watson Smith It was a QnA though. It’s not scripted.