Answer some questions about comedies directed by Ernst Lubitsch, for 10 points each:
[10m] The script for Lubitsch’s film Ninotchka was partly written by this director of Some Like it Hot. The screenwriter Joe Gillis narrates how he ended up dead in a swimming pool in this director’s film Sunset Boulevard.
ANSWER: Billy Wilder
[10e] Lubitsch satirized the Nazis in this film about a Polish acting troupe resisting Hitler’s rule. Twice in this film, a soldier leaves his seat to begin an affair after hearing this film’s six-word title phrase, the start of a Hamlet soliloquy about suicide.
ANSWER: To Be or Not to Be
[10h] After Gilda marries in Lubitsch’s film Design for Living, she receives flowers with a note claiming they’re “all the way from” this country. In an iconic shot from a Josef von Sternberg film set in this country, a “coaster” played by Marlene Dietrich looks up with only her face illuminated.
ANSWER: China [or People’s Republic of China or PRC or Zhongguo or Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo; reject “Republic of China”] (The von Sternberg film that uses butterfly lighting is Shanghai Express.)
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