Lubitsch gave me a pleasant surprise

Rating: 8/10 (23 November 2008)

This is, for now, the only Lubitsch film I liked so much ! ! !
I hadn't heard of Jack Benny but he is great as a "ham" actor playing multiple roles.Carole Lombard's role of the wife with various male suitors suits her...The rest of the cast is somewhat forgotten except for the pilot, Maria's lover (?) whom I didn't like...Yet the supporting characters are as entertaining as the leads...
I don't usually like Lubitsch so much but this is a swell comedy with Shakespeare references, a lot of fun in the theater and it makes fun of the Nazis adding a touch of melancholy for Poland's sake, what more can you want???