To Be or Not to Be

Ben Mankiewicz introduces To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

Dave Karger introduces To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

Director Ernst Lubitsch's famous opening, Tom Dugan as the German chancellor, stopping traffic in Warsaw, Jack Benny as the Nazi colonel, Charles Halton tangling with actor Felix Bressart, revealing the narrative device, in To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

Pilot Stanislav (Robert Stack) with actress Maria in her Warsaw dressing room, news of the Nazi invasion, her husband Joseph (Jack Benny) confused, director Ernst Lubitsh's documentation resumes, actors Greenberg and Bronski (Felix Bressart, Tom Dugan) reflecting, in To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

Bachelor pilot Stanislav (Robert Stack) on a secret mission back from England, discovered by actor Joseph (Jack Benny) in his apartment in occupied Warsaw, his actress wife Maria (Carole Lombard) returning with news of the suspected traitor, in Ernst Lubitsch's To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

Warsaw stage star Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) with dresser (Maude Eburne), receives a note from a fan, hammy husband Joseph (Jack Benny) beginning his soliloquy, handsome lieutenant Stanislav (Robert Stack) paying his first visit, in Ernst Lubitsch's To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.