Critic’s Pick: ‘To Be or Not To Be’
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‘To Be or Not To Be’
One of the funniest comedies ever to come out of Hollywood also turns out to be one of the nerviest and most controversial. Not something spanking new, it’s Ernst Lubitsch’s daring 1942 “To Be or Not To Be,” a comedy about Nazis that came out right in the middle of World War II, when no one was in a mood to laugh at the enemy. Costarring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard (in her last released film) as a pair of Polish Shakespearean actors who have to impersonate Nazis in order to save lives. Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.
—Kenneth Turan
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