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To Be Or Not To Be <\/i>(1942)<\/strong><\/p>\n Director: Ernst Lubitsch<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay:\u00a0 Edwin Justus Mayer, Ernst Lubitsch <\/strong>(uncredited); story by Melchior Lengyel<\/strong> Stars: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Charles Halton, George Lynn, Henry Victor, Halliwell Hobbes, Rudolph Anders <\/strong>and Robert Stack<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline:\u00a0 We announce the presentation of Carole Lombard’s last picture. An exciting romantic comedy keyed to an ever-mounting tempo of suspense. Jack Benny at his best in a surprisingly different comic role.<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 1942.\u00a0 World War II rages across Europe.\u00a0 In Poland, Professor Siletsky, a Nazi spy has a list of fighters in the Polish underground. If Silersky gets the list to Nazis, dozens of fighters will die and the Polish war effort will be crippled.<\/p>\n The only hope is a drama troupe led by Joseph Tura (Benny) and his wife Maria (Lombard).\u00a0 The troupe plans to impersonate Nazi leadership and take possession of Siletsky’s list.<\/p>\n What could go wrong?<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n To Be Or Not To Be<\/em> was nominated for one 1943 Academy Award…<\/p>\n Sadly, this was Carole Lombard’s last film.\u00a0 Lombard, her mother and all on board died in a plane crash on January 16, 1942.\u00a0 Carole Lombard was 33.\u00a0 She was on a war bond tour at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n To Be Or Not To Be<\/em> was released on March 6, 1942.\u00a0 Jack Benny was so upset that he didn’t attend a preview showing of the film just one week after Lombard’s death.\u00a0 Benny had also cancelled his weekly radio show the week that Carole Lombard died.<\/p>\n Carole Lombard said making To Be Or Not To Be<\/em> was the happiest experience she ever had making a film.\u00a0 Jack Benny said this movie was the only great film.\u00a0 Ernst Lubitsch felt that To Be Or Not To Be<\/em> was one of his best films.<\/p>\n Ernst Lubitsch, the film’s co-writer and director wrote the lead with Jack Benny in mind.<\/p>\n To Be Or Not To Be\u00a0<\/em>is a classic!<\/p>\n To Be Or Not To Be <\/i>(1942) <\/em><\/strong>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n To Be Or Not To Be (1942) Director: Ernst Lubitsch Screenplay:\u00a0 Edwin Justus Mayer, Ernst Lubitsch (uncredited); story by Melchior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38309,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38305\/revisions\/38309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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