Ernst Lubitsch and George Cukor’s One Hour With You (1932) is one of my favorite films, even though its production was rife with internal frictions and difficulties.
As I note in the introduction to the film in Senses of Cinema 56, “One Hour With You is one of Ernst Lubitsch’s most effervescent and sophisticated comedies, and easily ranks up there with the director’s best works, including the sublime Trouble in Paradise (1932) and Ninotchka (1939), but it had one of the most tortuous and complex geneses of any of the director’s works. For in the beginning, the film wasn’t a Lubitsch film at all; it was to be a George Cukor film, and indeed, when the film began shooting, Cukor was in the director’s chair.”
