Ninotchka
Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Romance
Release Year: 1939
Country: USA
Runtime: 110
Rating: 4.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
M-G-Ms Laugh Riot !
Dont Pronounce It . . . See It !
In Moscow they planted medals on her bosom . . . in Paris they planted kisses on her cheek . . .
"Its only human to kiss!"
Garbo laughs
The picture that kids the commissars!
(Dont Pronounce It - See It!)
M.G.M.s laugh hit is here!
Writing by: Melchior Lengyel - (story)
Charles Brackett - (screenplay) &
Billy Wilder - (screenplay) and
Walter Reisch - (screenplay)
Produced by: Sidney Franklin - associate producer (uncredited)
Ernst Lubitsch - executive producer (uncredited)
Cast: Greta Garbo - Nina Yakushova Ninotchka Ivanoff
Melvyn Douglas - Léon - Comte dAgoult
Ina Claire - Grand Duchess Swana
Bela Lugosi - Kommissar Razinin
Sig Ruman - Iranoff (as Sig Rumann)
Felix Bressart - Buljanoff
Alexander Granach - Kopalski
Gregory Gaye - Rakonin
Rolfe Sedan - Hotel Manager
Edwin Maxwell - Mercier
Richard Carle - Gaston
Music: Werner R. Heymann
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Plot Outline: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Plot: Only the royal suite at the grandest hotel in Paris has a safe large enough for the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana. So the three Russians who have come to sell the jewels settle into the suite until a higher ranking official is dispatched to find out what is delaying the sale. She is Ninotchka, a no nonsense woman who fascinates Count Leon who had been the faithful retainer of the Grand Duchess. The Grand Duchess will give up all claim to the jewels if Ninotchka will fly away from the count. But can one count on a count?
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The credits are blurred across the screen
Goofs: We know about 10 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When the three Russian negotiators meet Ninotchka at the train station in Paris, the white ticket tucked into her jacket changes position from shot to shot.
Trivia: There are 10 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1990.
- The tagline “Garbo laughs!” came before the screenplay was written; the film was built around that single, now legendary, slogan.
- Greta Garbo did not wear any makeup for her scenes where she is the stern envoy.
Tags: Alexander Granach, Bela Lugosi, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Claire
- Grand Duchess Swana, Congress, Edwin Maxwell, Ernst Lubitsch, Felix Bressart, Gregory Gaye, Greta Garbo, Ina Claire, Laugh Riot, Leon, Library of Congress, Melvyn Douglas, Moscow, Nina Yakushova Ninotchka Ivanoff, Paris, Richard Carle, Sidney Franklin, United States, Walter Reisch, Werner R. Heymann
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