May 18th
Ninotchka***
US 1939. MGM. 110m. bw
In between-the-wars Paris, Bolshevik agents trying to sell Russian jewels are corrupted by the city's romance.
"Garbo Laughs!" ran the publicity for this MGM-style Parisian romantic comedy of manners, but it's also a pretty near-perfect vehicle for a typically colourful Lubitsch ensemble.
Written by: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch, from a story by Melchior Lengyel.
Producer/Direcor: Ernst Lubitsch.
Starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Bela Lugosi, Gregory Gayle, Rolfe Sedan, Edwin Maxwell.
Photography: William Daniels.
Music: Werner R. Heymann.
+ introduction: "This picture takes place in Paris in those wonderful days when a siren was a brunette and not an alarm - and if a Frenchman turned out the light it was not on account of an air raid!"
Ninotchka***
US 1939. MGM. 110m. bw
In between-the-wars Paris, Bolshevik agents trying to sell Russian jewels are corrupted by the city's romance.
"Garbo Laughs!" ran the publicity for this MGM-style Parisian romantic comedy of manners, but it's also a pretty near-perfect vehicle for a typically colourful Lubitsch ensemble.
Written by: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch, from a story by Melchior Lengyel.
Producer/Direcor: Ernst Lubitsch.
Starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Bela Lugosi, Gregory Gayle, Rolfe Sedan, Edwin Maxwell.
Photography: William Daniels.
Music: Werner R. Heymann.
+ introduction: "This picture takes place in Paris in those wonderful days when a siren was a brunette and not an alarm - and if a Frenchman turned out the light it was not on account of an air raid!"
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