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    Lions, Towers & Shields April 13, 2023 To Be Or Not To Be
    74 I Would Watch A Whole Movie About Greenberg

    The Lubitsch Touch applied to Nazi occupation? You bet. Carole Lombard and Jack Benny star as members of an acting troupe in Poland, scrambling after the Nazis arrive. It’s funny and serious all at once, with great performances. The film was released two months after Lombard died in a plane crash, and would have earned good will, had the subject matter not been a rough go for Americans of the time.