The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch In The Marriage Circle, One Hour With You, and Trouble in Paradise Lubitsch towered above anybody, creatively . . . he was the greatest craftsman whoever lived . . . in the sense of knowing the most brilliant and original way to use the medium . . . His talent and originality were stupefying . . . Lubitsch was cerebrally was beyond the ordinary director . . . A man of pure cinema . . . Lubitsch was a prince. (www.his.com/~scottb/lubitsch/potpouri.html). Introduction Born on January 28, 1892 in Berlin, Ernst Lubitsch was from the German middle class. He was an extraordinary director. For him, film style and theme fit together perfectly. He was