Golden Age Of Hollywood

Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 classic To Be or Not to Be is a testament to comedy as a force of resistance

Arguably the greatest Hollywood comedy of the sound era, To Be or Not to Be is a daring, intellectually provocative work that stands testament to the power of life-sustaining humour in face of unspeakable horror.

Gold Diggers of 1933 was a racy backstage musical — and Hollywood’s response to the Great Depression

The Warner production Gold Diggers of 1933, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, is a racy backstage musical rife with the kind of elements that the censors would veto in the following years: women in underwear and skimpy stage costumes, or as sexy silhouettes changing clothes, their bottoms spanked by men, dialogue with double entendre, and a gleefully amoral scenario.