To Be or Not to Be - 1942
- Brands Ernst Lubitsch
- Product Code: NA-1308-CRO-LT
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Joseph and Maria Tura operate and star in their own theater company in Warsaw. Maria has many admirers including a young lieutenant in the Polish air force, Stanislav Sobinski. When the Germans invade Poland to start World War II, Sobinski and his colleagues flee to England while the Turas find themselves now having to operate under severe restrictions, including shelving a comical play they had written about Adolf Hitler. In England meanwhile, Sobinski and his friends give Professor Siletski - who is about to return to Poland - the names and addresses of their closest relatives so the professor can carry messages for them. When it's learned that Siletski is really a German spy, Sobinski parachutes into Poland and enlists the aid of the Turas and their fellow actors to get that list back.
Technical Sheet | |
Title in Brazil | Ser ou Não Ser |
Original Title | To Be or Not to Be |
Year | 1942 |
Language | English |
Subtitle | German, Arabic, Portuguese, English, Basque, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Spanish, Finnish, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Polish, European Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Vietnamese |
Colors | Black and white |
Gender | Romantic comedy |
Duration | 99 Min. |
Direction | Ernst Lubitsch |
Countries of origin | United States |
Cast | Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Stanley Ridges, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan, Charles Halton, George Lynn |
Did you know? | |
Curiosities | When Jack Benny's father went to see this movie, he was outraged at the sight of his son in a Nazi uniform in the first scene and even stormed out of the theater. Jack convinced his father that it was satire, and he agreed to sit through all of it. His father ended up loving the film so much he saw it forty-six times. |
Bloopers | Although having Maria Tura give the cue line "To be or not to be" to the men in the audience she wishes to meet in her dressing room is a very funny premise of the film, it actually would be highly impractical for Maria to think she would have time to meet backstage. Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is only about 3-4 minutes long and Ophelia has the very next line in the play (in fact Hamlet announces her entrance at the end of his soliloquy), which would barely give Maria any time to meet men in her dressing room. |