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  Ninotchka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ninotchka is a 1939 American film by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.
Although much of the marketing surrounding Ninotchka played on Garbo's super-serious image, suggesting she had never laughed or played comedy on film before, an examination of her canon reveals this to not be the case.
Ninotchka, on her arrival at the train station, updating her fellow countrymen about latest news in Moscow: "The last mass trials were a success: there will be fewer, but better Russians.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Ninotchka
Launched with the tagline "Garbo Laughs!", Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first comedy, and her next to last film.
Three Russians, Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski, are sent to Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the (The revolution against the Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917) Russian Revolution.
Launched with the tagline "Garbo Laughs!", Ninotchka is (United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990)) Greta Garbo's first comedy, and her next to last (Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies) film.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ninotchka   (1734 words)

  
 Ninotchka Movie Review at Hollywood Video
The film was Ernst Lubitchs' Ninotchka, a typical clash-of-cultures farce that stood apart because of excellent dialogue and setups that gave the star a chance to show her comedy chops, and spoof her onscreen image at the same time.
Ninotchka is a formula picture, designed to fit the pattern established by director Frank Capra, who dominated the film industry in the 1930s with a string of popular pictures, and Best Picture Oscars, for It Happened One Night (1934) and You Can't Take It with You (1938).
But Ninotchka was a one-time thing for Garbo, a chance to propel herself out of a career rut, a decade of mediocre films built around her icy beauty and somber delivery, such as the star-studded Grand Hotel (the Airport '77 of its day), and cholera-epidemic film Painted Veil.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=1050   (934 words)

  
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NINOTCHKA I was a sergeant in the Third Cavalry Brigade.
NINOTCHKA (with the precision of a machine) You are referring to paragraph 59b, section 25f of the Civil Code.
NINOTCHKA But you have now, and I know now that you are a man who employs business methods which in Russia would be punished by death.
www.weeklyscript.com /Ninotchka.txt   (9066 words)

  
 Ninotchka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
She plays Nina Ivanovna Yakushova, or "Ninotchka" for short, a Soviet envoy who is sent to Paris to replace the previous envoy - three capitalist-hungry bumblers (Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach) - to secure a good bid for some royal jewels that belonged to a former Russian noblewoman, Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire).
Ninotchka is in love with Leon too, but once her work is finished she must return to Moscow, where Leon cannot follow.
Ninotchka is also memorable for its stark contrasts between political systems, people, and locales.
www.reelcriticreviews.com /reviews/ninotchka.htm   (825 words)

  
 NINOTCHKA
Ninotchka feels the connection as well, silencing him with a kiss of her own.
Unfortunately, the Grand Duchess isn't one to lose her property or her men and she makes sure Ninotchka is aware of that fact.
Ninotchka misses Leon horribly, but is resigned to her life in Russia.
crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsN/f_ninotchka.html   (1344 words)

  
 Ninotchka (1939 b 110')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Ninotchka says she must fight him and leaves.
Ninotchka goes to a restaurant for workers, and Leon follows her.
Commissar Razinin (Bela Lugosi) tells Ninotchka that Iranoff, Buljanoff, and Kopolski are celebrating in Constantinople, and he sends her there.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1939/Ninotchka.html   (490 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Ninotchka: DVD: Greta Garbo,Melvyn Douglas,Ina Claire,Bela Lugosi,Sig Ruman,Felix Bressart,Alexander ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
NINOTCHKA, after all, is about the triumph of love over politics, and to those who feel faint from the prevailing toilet-ethic of the Farrelly Brothers' blood-poisoning of modern comedy, represents a much-needed antidote.
In a quintessential "Lubitsch touch" that may or may not be in the screenplay, Leon stands a drunk Ninotchka against a hotel suite wall with a blindfold, walks away, walks back and lifts up the blindfold to kiss her, puts it back over her face, then opens a champagne bottle to sound like rifle fire.
NINOTCHKA is glorious entertainment, from darkest tragedy to most hilarious comedy, under a master director and with a fabulous script.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009S4IJW?v=glance   (3026 words)

  
 Ninotchka BY Maggie Van Ostrand
It was in Mexico that Ninotchka met the love of her life.
Ninotchka has been poorly for about a week, unable to come on her beloved walks, not wanting to eat, so we went to her longtime vet far away where we used to live.
I brought her a cooler full of snow from home and spread the snow all around her as she lay in a kennel at the vet's.
www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/mvanostrand/mvo0305.html   (571 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Ninotchka: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Ninotchka connects the careers of 1930s directing great Ernst Lubitsch and future directing great Billy Wilder, who was among a quartet of writers who did credited work on this film.
So says the Parisian waiter to the stern Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) as she orders a plate of---well I guess it could pass for nouvelle cuisine in California today.
Leon's courtship of Ninotchka is persuasive, even if he is a dirty middle-aged man. The robotic Greta Garbo gets the choicest lines (Must you flirt...suppress it).
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009S4IJW   (856 words)

  
 Ninotchka: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Ninotchka is a 1939 American film by Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch quick summary:
Ernst lubitsch (berlin, january 28, 1892 - november 30, 1947 in hollywood) was an american film director of german origin....
(Ninotchka is Greta Garbo Greta Garbo quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/ninotchka.htm   (1376 words)

  
 Philippine Post Magazine: Ninotchka Rosca
Ninotchka Rosca also spoke on women and writing, power and language, Third World writing and emergent literatures at the philippine Normal University on July 19.
Ninotchka was her usual ebullient self, shrieking in delight at the sight of new arrivals whom she hadn’t seen in years.
Now Ninotchka recounted how Igarta had visited her at the very hour he had breathed his last in a hospital.
www.philpost.com /0800pages/yuson0800.html   (2219 words)

  
 Cinema of the Caribbean: Ninotchka - Cinematical
The plot of Ninotchka is a sturdy enough clothesline: Three Soviet emissaries arrive in Paris with a mission to pawnsky some ill-gotten Romanov boodle, on behalf of the Kremlin.
Ninotchka is a farce, not an exploration of the verities of Bolshevik praxis.
The film’s importance comes from the fact that it finally introduced Billy Wilder to the mass audience, and it came along at a time when the audience was ready to see some holes poked in the traditional political stereotypes that had settled into place in the 1930s.
www.cinematical.com /2005/05/30/film-review-ninotchka   (1411 words)

  
 Ninotchka
But in actual fact, NINOTCHKA harkens back to pop's absolute value whilst eliding parochial nostalgist spittle, otherwise coined "credibility." And yet they may just shift your unit as well as a few of their own.
A jilt to the elitist pop aesthetic of modern-rocking-jobbers everywhere, bound to recall the viability of the single record, NINOTCHKA is an indelible swatch on the pop music continuum, destined to build their own off-ramp from the outset.
NINOTCHKA's forthcoming Grimsey full-length ought to lend a unique knowledge to an undifferentiated mire of Morse divots and lumps.
www.grimsey.com /ninotchka.html   (295 words)

  
 Ninotchka (1939)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
One was to approach MGM and request prints of Ninotchka - to be shown widely to working class audiences in Italy.
The resulting prints are astonishingly beautiful (I have one) and they estimate five million Italians viewed it and other propaganda films each week before the elections - in spite of the efforts of the Communists to prevent its showing.
One pro-Communist worker said afterward "What licked us was Ninotchka!" (See "Killing Hope" by William Blum).
www.imdb.com /title/tt0031725   (414 words)

  
 Ninotchka (1939)
Ninotchka (1939) was the long-awaited, classic romantic comedy, with a clever and witty script and the magnificent presence of actress Greta Garbo in her first official American comedy (in her next-to-last film).
The charming, sparkling screenplay that satirizes the Communist political system with sexual humor was written by Billy Wilder (before he became a director), Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, based on a screen story by Melchior Lengyel.
Other spin-offs of the Ninotchka theme include MGM's Comrade X (1940) with Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr (in the Soviet Union), and The Iron Petticoat (1956) with Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope (in London).
www.filmsite.org /nino.html   (1934 words)

  
 Ninotchka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
NINOTCHKA, which premiered in Hollywood on October 6, 1939, was the first film produced for MGM by Ernst Lubitsch.
NINOTCHKA was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1990.
The office was without a translator at the time and mistook the note for correspondence regarding the Soviet proposal for major political negotiations.
www.videoflicks.com /titles/1015/1015182.htm?23134   (445 words)

  
 Movie Info for Ninotchka on MSN Movies
When Leon turns his charm on Ninotchka, she regards him coldly, informing him that love is merely a "chemical reaction." Even his kisses fail to weaken her resolve.
Leon finally wins her over by taking an accidental fall in a fancy restaurant, whereupon Ninotchka laughs for the first time in her life.
As a bonus to the frothy script, by Billy Wilder and others, and its surefire star power, Ninotchka features what is perhaps Bela Lugosi's most likeable and relaxed performance.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=49027   (266 words)

  
 - Cease, cows, life is short!
Ninotchka B. in Married Life, Me, Myself and I, Conversations, Joyful
Ninotchka B. in Mothering, Married Life, Texas Living, Joyful
Ninotchka B. in You So Funny, Tampering, Joyful
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 Combustible Celluloid film review - Ninotchka (1939), Ernst Lubitsch, Greta Garbo, Bela Lugosi, dvd review
When Ninotchka and her comrades go back to Russia they find that they miss the pleasures that Paris had to offer them.
Garbo, too, was in a vastly different role than we had ever seen her before.
She's very funny in Ninotchka, but she was also capable of portraying great passion, and it's a shame to see her draw it in here.
www.combustiblecelluloid.com /archive/ninotchka.shtml   (557 words)

  
 Ninotchka: Review and Credits
And so, super efficient Comrade Ninotchka (Garbo) appears to retrieve jewelry in the possession of the former Grand Duchess Swana (Claire).
He plays the gushy romantic dialogue early on with the perfect combination of conviction and playfulness, and one of the film's beauties is watching Garbo shift gears into this mode herself.
The lovely scene in a cafe where Douglas cracks Ninotchka up only when he falls off his chair remains a highlight of both film comedy and screen romance.
www.lubitsch.com /ninotchkarev.html   (431 words)

  
 Ninotchka Rosca
The large stage at Seattle University's Pigott Auditorium seemed to swallow the diminutive stature of Ninotchka Rosca.
She adds, "If there is anything I would like to be known for, I would like to be known as a storyteller, a good classical storyteller, in the tradition of the epic poets who went around reciting poetry."
Indeed, the twin themes of writing and activism have dominated Ninotchka Rosca's life.
home.comcast.net /~gayle.mayor/Rosca.htm   (1081 words)

  
 SeattleActivism : Internationally acclaimed author Ninotchka Rosa in Seattle May 12 & 13
Internationally acclaimed author Ninotchka Rosa in Seattle May 12 & 13
Ninotchka Rosa-writer, feminist and human rights activist will be in Seattle for 2 nights promoting her new book, "Jose Maria Sision: At Home in the World, Portrait of a Revolutionary".
The government of Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Philippines keep trying to bury him and only succeed in having songs sung in his praise." -Ninotchka Rosca
www.seattleactivism.org /events/event1197.htm   (475 words)

  
 Ninotchka
Ninotchka is a stern, straightlaced Communist Party member sent to Paris to finish the sale of Grand Duchess Swana's jewels for the Soviet government.
An uptight woman spends the holidays with her boyfriend's bohemian family; complications ensue.
"Ninotchka (1939) was the long-awaited, classic romantic comedy, with a clever and witty script and the magnificent presence of actress Greta Garbo"
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/ninotchka   (440 words)

  
 ninotchka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Actually, Garbo herself had mulled over the possibility 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 is filled with director Ernst Lubitsch famous nuances known as the "Lubitsch touch".
Garbo received an Academy Award nomination for her role but would lose to Vivien Leigh.
home.hiwaay.net /~oliver/ninotchka.htm   (129 words)

  
 Ninotchka (1939)
Romantic comedy produced by "Ninotchka's" director; very similar feel.
Similar theme of idealist seduced by pleasure; more raucous humor.
Musical remake of "Ninotchka" offers fine score, more heavy-handed humor.
reel.com /movie.asp?MID=1050&buy=open&PID=10120327&Tab=reviews&CID=18   (119 words)

  
 USIA - Portrait of the USA, Ch. 11
The apogee of the studio system may have been the year 1939, which saw the release of such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington (directed by Capra), Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks), Ninotchka (Lubitsch), and Midnight.
The studio system succumbed to two forces in the late 1940s: (1) a federal antitrust action that separated the production of films from their exhibition; and (2) the advent of television.
usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/factover/ch11.htm   (3548 words)

  
 Speak Out - Biography and Booking Information: Ninotchka Rosca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Speak Out - Biography and Booking Information: Ninotchka Rosca
Ninotchka Rosca is an outstanding contemporary writer, human rights activist and feminist.
Rosca's short stories have been included in several anthologies, among them, the 1986 Best 100 Short Stories in the U.S. compiled by Raymond Carver and the Missouri Review Anthology.
www.speakersandartists.org /People/NinotchkaRosca.html   (324 words)

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