arrives. Bronski enters costumed as Hitler, then walks out speechless, shocked at seeing Ehrhardt trying to seduce Maria—which makes Erhardt believe she's Hitler's mistress. Maria flees; Ehrhardt shoots himself out of shame. The actors take off on Hitler's plane. Sobinski flies to Scotland, where the press interviews the actors. Asked what reward Josef would like for saving the underground movement, Maria asserts that he wants to play Hamlet. While performing, Josef is gratified to see Sobinski sitting quietly in the audience at the critical moment of his soliloquy. But as he proceeds, the audience is distracted as a handsome young officer gets up and heads noisily backstage. Cast Carole Lombard as Maria Tura, an actress in Nazi-occupied Poland Jack Benny as Joseph Tura, an actor and Maria's husband Robert Stack as Lt. Stanislav Sobinski, a Polish airman in love with Maria Felix Bressart as Greenberg, a Jewish member of the company who plays bit parts and dreams of playing Shylock Lionel Atwill as Rawich, a ham actor in the company Stanley Ridges as Professor Alexander Siletsky, a Nazi spy masquerading as a Polish resistance worker Sig Ruman as Col. Ehrhardt, the bumbling Gestapo commander in Warsaw Tom Dugan as Bronski, a member of the company who impersonates Hitler Charles Halton as Dobosh, the producer of the company George Lynn as Actor-Adjutant, a member of the company who masquerades as Col. Ehrhardt's adjutant Henry Victor as Capt. Schultz, the real adjutant of Col. Ehrhardt Maude Eburne as Anna, Maria's maid Halliwell Hobbes as Gen. Armstrong, a British intelligence officer Miles Mander as Major Cunningham, a British intelligence officer James Finlayson as Scottish Farmer (uncredited) Olaf Hytten as Polonius in Warsaw (uncredited) Maurice Murphy as Polish RAF Pilot (uncredited) Frank Reicher as Polish Official (uncredited) Production Lubitsch had never considered anyone other than Jack Benny for the lead role in the film. He had even written the character with Benny in mind. Benny, thrilled that a director of Lubitsch's caliber had been thinking of him while writing it, accepted the role immediately. Benny was in a predicament as, strangely enough, his success in the film version of Charley's Aunt (1941) did not interest anyone in hiring the actor for their films. For Benny's costar, the studio and Lubitsch decided on Miriam Hopkins, whose career had been faltering in recent years. The role was designed as a comeback for the veteran actress, but