To Be or Not to Be (1942)

The film was released one month after actress Carole Lombard was killed in an airplane crash.
In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
Regarded as one of the best films of Lubitsch’s, Benny’s and Lombard’s careers, was initially not well received by the public, many of whom could not understand the notion of making fun out of such a real threat as the Nazis. According to Jack Benny’s unfinished memoir, published in 1991, his own father walked out of the theater early in the film, disgusted that his son was in a Nazi uniform, and vowed not to set foot in the theater again. Benny convinced him otherwise and his father ended up loving the film, and saw it forty-six times.
While the critics generally praised Lombard, some scorned Benny and Lubitsch and found the film to be in bad taste.
To Be or Not to Be was nominated for one Academy Award: the Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Carole Lombard as Maria Tura, an actress in Nazi-occupied Poland
Jack Benny as Joseph Tura, an actor and Maria’s husband
Robert Stack as Lt. Stanislav Sobinski, a Polish airman in love with Maria
Felix Bressart as Greenberg, a Jewish member of the company who plays bit parts and dreams of playing Shylock
Lionel Atwill as Rawich, a ham actor in the company
Stanley Ridges as Professor Alexander Siletsky, a Nazi spy masquerading as a Polish resistance worker
Sig Ruman as Col. Ehrhardt, the bumbling Gestapo commander in Warsaw
Tom Dugan as Bronski, a member of the company who impersonates Hitler
Charles Halton as Dobosh, the producer of the company
George Lynn as Actor-Adjutant, a member of the company who masquerades as Col. Ehrhardt’s adjutant
Henry Victor as Capt. Schultz, the real adjutant of Col. Ehrhardt
Maude Eburne as Anna, Maria’s maid
Halliwell Hobbes as Gen. Armstrong, a British intelligence officer
Miles Mander as Major Cunningham, a British intelligence officer
James Finlayson as Scottish Farmer (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten as Polonius in Warsaw (uncredited)
Maurice Murphy as Polish RAF Pilot (uncredited)
Frank Reicher as Polish Official (uncredited)

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