Ninotchka

Ninotchka

1939 | 1h 50m | Comedy, Romance | TV-G

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Brief Synopsis

Glamorous Greta Garbo shows a real flair for comedy in this classic about a stern Russian comrade's awakening to love in romantic Paris. Melvyn Douglas co-stars in Ernst Lubitsch's sly comedy, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar® in 1939.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Ernst Lubitsch

CAST

Greta Garbo

Ina Claire

Bela Lugosi

Sigfried Rumann

Felix Bressart

Alexander Granach

Gregory Gaye

Rolfe Sedan

Edwin Maxwell

Richard Carle

PRODUCERS

Ernst Lubitsch

WRITERS

Charles Brackett

Walter Reisch

Billy Wilder

Melchior Lengyel

Host Intros

01:38
Alicia Malone Intro -- Ninotchka (1939)
Intro Aired: May 2019
TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Ninotchka, 1939.
01:42
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Ninotchka (1939)
Intro Aired: Mar 2016
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Ninotchka, 1939.

Related Videos

Ninotchka (1939) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Form Our Own Party!
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Inebriated Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas) and Soviet comrade Yakushova (Greta Garbo), who has finally succumbed to his romantic overtures, return to her Paris suite, considering the jewels she's expected to sell, in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka, 1939.
Ninotchka (1939) -- (Movie Clip) No Sense of Humor!
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In a Paris cafe, Playboy Leon (Melvyn Douglas) tries to get a laugh out of Russian Comrade Yakushova (Greta Garbo), his adversary in an international jewel dispute, the scene that delivered on MGM's "Garbo Laughs" P-R campaign, in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka,1939.
Ninotchka (1939) -- (Movie Clip) It Won't Be Long Now
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Bumbling Soviet officials Iranoff (Sig Rumann), Bulyanoff (Felix Bressart) and Kopalski (Alexander Granach) are surprised to find comrade Yakushova (Greta Garbo), arriving in Paris to take over their fund-raising mission, is a female, in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka, 1939.
Ninotchka (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Wasted Between Whistles
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The first chance meeting between visiting Russian comrade Yakushova (Greta Garbo) and playboy Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas) on a Paris street corner, unaware that they're adversaries in an international jewel dispute, in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka, 1939.
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Ninotchka (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Was Wounded Before Warsaw
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Parisian playboy Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas) doesn't know that the Soviet babe (Greta Garbo, title character) he's fallen for is his adversary, sent to represent her country in a legal battle over confiscated jewels, in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka, 1939.
Ninotchka (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Have Some Lunch!
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Pressed by Paris dealer Mercier (Edwin Maxwell), Soviet commissars Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski (Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach) are sidetracked by Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas), as they try to sell confiscated jewels, in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka, 1939.
Ninotchka - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
A cold-hearted Soviet agent (Greta Garbo) succumbs to the charms of an admirer (Melvyn Douglas) while visiting Paris on business in Ninotchka (1939),directed by Ernest Lubitsch.

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