On set of Design for Living (1932)

Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March on the set of Design For Living (1932).
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Mary Pickford & Ernst Lubitsch

Mary Pickford and Ernst Lubitsch on the set of Rosita (1923).
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Behind the scenes of The Shop Around the Corner

Ernst Lubitsch with Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart on the set of The Shop Around the Corner (1940). 
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Ernst Lubitsch and James Stewart on set

James Stewart and director Ernst Lubitsch on the set of The Shop Around the Corner (1940). 
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Ernst Lubitsch by Edward Steichen (1935)

Ernst Lubitsch by Edward Steichen (1935). 
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Ernst Lubitsch and his cigar

‘The image of the movie mogul with a cigar in hand has long been a staple–indeed a stereotype–in Hollywood. Jack Warner. Darryl Zanuck. Harry Cohn. Sam Arkoff. Carl Laemmle. Ernst Lubitsch. They all smoked cigars, brandishing them as symbols of success and power. In the motion-picture business, as elsewhere, smoking a good cigar was often an unmistakable way to say to the world, “I’ve made it.”‘ (Power Smokers of Hollywood, by David Shaw).

Here is German director/producer Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1942) with his favorite cigars.I am not the author of these images.
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Ernst Lubitsch and his cigar, 1929 (unknown photographer)

Ernst Lubitsch directs Miriam Hopkins in one of his supreme achievements, Trouble in Paradise. (1932), Unknown photographer.
Ernst Lubitsch and his cigar (1940), unknown photographer

Ernst Lubitsch, Hollywood´s foremost cigar smoker, pleased as punch as he receives from the hands of Pablo Álvarez de Cañas an especially made case of Cuban mahogany containing boxes of cigars representing the five leading tobacco factories of Cuba. (1938), unknown photographer

Ernst Lubitsch and his cigar outside his Bel Air home (1935), unknown photographer.

Directors Ernst Lubitsch and Mervyn LeRoy compare the size of their cigars. Undated. Unknown photographer