
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
The Picture Everyone Wants to See
99 min
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
- Release date
- February 15, 1942
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $1,200,000
- Box office
- $1,500,000
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Cast
- Carole Lombard as Maria Tura
- Jack Benny as Joseph Tura
- Robert Stack as Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski
- Felix Bressart as Greenberg
- Lionel Atwill as Rawitch
- Stanley Ridges as Professor Siletsky
- Sig Ruman as Colonel Ehrhardt
- Charles Halton as Producer Jan Dobosz
- George Lynn as Actor-Adjutant
- Henry Victor as Capt. Schultz
- Maude Eburne as Anna
- Halliwell Hobbes as Gen. Armstrong
- Miles Mander as Major Cunningham
- Rudolph Anders as Gestapo Sergeant at Desk at Top of Hotel Stairs (uncredited)
- Paul Barrett as Polish RAF Pilot (uncredited)
- Sven Hugo Borg as German Soldier (uncredited)
- Danny Borzage as Member of Audience at Performance of Hamlet (uncredited)
- Buster Brodie as Townsman (uncredited)
- Alec Craig as Scottish Farmer Without Mustache (uncredited)
- Helmut Dantine as Co-Pilot (uncredited)
- Jack Deery as Member of Audience at Performance of Hamlet (uncredited)
- Leslie Denison as Captain (uncredited)
- James Finlayson as Scottish Farmer with Mustache (uncredited)
- Stuart Hall as Member of Audience at Performance of Hamlet (uncredited)
- Leyland Hodgson as Second Reporter (uncredited)
- Shep Houghton as German Soldier (uncredited)
- Olaf Hytten as Polonius in Warsaw (uncredited)
- Tom Dugan as Bronski
Crew
- Ernst Lubitsch · Director
- Melchior Lengyel · Writer
- Edwin Justus Mayer · Writer
- Ernst Lubitsch · Producer
- Werner R. Heymann · Composer
- Rudolph Maté · Cinematographer
- Dorothy Spencer · Editor
- Victor Sutker · Casting director
- Vincent Korda · Production designer