Ninotchka
Released Nov. 9, 1939
Directed by Ernest Lubitsch
Cast includes Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart
"Garbo Laughs" the ads proclaimed and sure enough, the tragic muse was seen for the first time in a comedic role. The ploy, an attempt to regain Garbo's success at the box office but putting her in a different type of film, worked fabulously. Actually, Garbo herself has mulled the possibility over for a number of years. Ninotchka, in which she plays a Russian agent in Paris who falls in love with Melvyn Douglas, is an excellent film and filled with director Ernst Lubitsch's famous nuances known as the "Lubitsch touch". Garbo received an Academy Award for her role but lost to Vivien Leigh for Gone With The Wind.
Scene - "Ninotchka arrives in Paris"
Scene - "Must you flirt?"
Trailer - "Garbo Laughs"
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Directed by Ernest Lubitsch
Cast includes Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart
"Garbo Laughs" the ads proclaimed and sure enough, the tragic muse was seen for the first time in a comedic role. The ploy, an attempt to regain Garbo's success at the box office but putting her in a different type of film, worked fabulously. Actually, Garbo herself has mulled the possibility over for a number of years. Ninotchka, in which she plays a Russian agent in Paris who falls in love with Melvyn Douglas, is an excellent film and filled with director Ernst Lubitsch's famous nuances known as the "Lubitsch touch". Garbo received an Academy Award for her role but lost to Vivien Leigh for Gone With The Wind.
Scene - "Ninotchka arrives in Paris"
Scene - "Must you flirt?"
Trailer - "Garbo Laughs"
Next Film: Two-Faced Woman
Back to Filmography