![]() Once One Hour With You (1932) opens on Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier in bed together, Lubitsch wastes little time in the living room or hall. Lubitsch's ever-present cigar chew wasn't just a roll of tobacco leaves it was the hayloft, and before Will Hayes declared married couples only slept in twin beds in the mid-1930s, Paramount Studios' boudoirs came the size of barns. When one pop musician famously admitted having had "it" in the ear before, he was bawling about Carousel! Papa Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) no doubt had "it" in orifices they hadn't invented yet, because as with Criterion's previous Eclipse set, Postwar Kurosawa, there's a provocative postscript left off Lubitsch Musicals: pre-Code. ![]() ![]() Musicals strike fear in the ears of mankind. Lubitsch Musicals: Eclipse Series 8 Criterion Collection, $59.95
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