Ernst Lubitsch
Biography
Ernst Lubitsch was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor born in Berlin in 1892 to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. He gained a reputation for elegant and sophisticated comedies of manners, including screwball and romantic comedies like Trouble in Paradise (1932) and Ninotchka (1939), which earned him the nickname "the Lubitsch touch." A three-time Academy Award nominee, Lubitsch received an Honorary Academy Award in 1946 for his distinguished contributions to cinema.