Ninotchka (Nina Ivanovna Yakushova)
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Ninotchka: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi. A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. Only the royal suite at the grandest hotel in Paris has a safe large enough for the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana.
Ninotchka is a perfect and hilarious change of pace for her; she's a Russian Communist without frills or romance on her mind, and her natural masculinity can finally be showcased. This was the first of her movies I saw, so I always thought she was a homely actress.
Ninotchka : [3 pretty cigarette girls eagerly enter hotel suite, and are dismayed to confront a scornful Ninotchka] Comrades, you must have been smoking a lot. Ninotchka : How much does this cost?
Ninotchka (1939) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
With Maria Schell, Gig Young, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mischa Auer. This TV remake of the 1939 Greta Garbo classic features Maria Schell in the title role of a prim, party-line spouting Soviet efficiency expert whose entire outlook on life is completely changed when she has a brief romance on a trip to Paris.
Ninotchka Edit Greta Garbo had her misgivings about appearing in a comedy and was particularly nervous about the drunk scene, which she considered to be highly vulgar.
Greta Garbo. Actress: Ninotchka. Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which left the family destitute.
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Ninotchka : We don't have men like you in my country. Leon : Thank you. Ninotchka : That is why I believe in the future of my country. Leon : Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. Ninotchka : You merely feel you must put yourself in a romantic mood to add to your exhilaration.
