To Be or Not To Be presented by Harry Shearer (In person!)
Wednesday May 1st @ 7:30pm
|New Orleans
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch (1942) - Screening this Wednesday May 1st @ 7:30pm at The Broad Theater, tickets only $8!
Time & Location
Wednesday May 1st @ 7:30pm
New Orleans, 636 N Broad St, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA
About the Event
As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production right before the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.