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Ninotchka

Release date 6th October 1939
Country : USA
Running time : 110 mins
Genre : Comedy
Starring Greta Garbo
Screenplay by Melchior Lengyel, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Picture


When sly playboy Leon d'Algout meets stern Comrade Irinia Ivanovna east-west romance results and major complications intervene.

Garbo finally let her hair down for this delightful comedy and it is her finest and most lasting film. Its greatest asset apart from fine performances from Garbo and Melvyn Douglas is its witty script, it sags a little in the last half hour after comrade Ninotchka falls in love.
 
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This was Garbo's penultimate film. She was to make one last comedy again with Melvyn Douglas : Two Faced Woman (1941),it failed both critically and with audiences and she retired from the screen.

The film was remade as the musical Silk Stockings (1957) with a Cole Porter score and Cyd Charisse in the Garbo role. 
 
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