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Heaven Can Wait (1943): The Lubitsch Touch of Crime

Heaven Can Wait (1943): The Lubitsch Touch of Crime

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Aug 19, 2013
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Heaven Can Wait
(1943) is one of the Siren's favorite Lubitsch films, which means in turn that it is one of her favorite films, period. It was made at 20th Century Fox, which you'd also know just from the title card above. (On Twitter, Comrade Lou Lumenick once asked if Darryl Zanuck had a needlepoint artist on salary; you could tell who were the real c…

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