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Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. [1] It was written by Billy Wilder , Charles Brackett , and Walter Reisch , [ 1 ] based on a story by Melchior Lengyel .
Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor.Douglas came to prominence in 1929 as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the romantic comedy Ninotchka (1939) with Greta Garbo.
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights—range in genre and are ...
Her career revived with a turn to comedy in Ninotchka (1939), which earned her a fourth Academy Award nomination. Two-Faced Woman (1941), a box-office flop, was the last of her 28 films. Following this commercial failure, she continued to be offered movie roles, though she declined most of them.
Before Garbo's previous film, Ninotchka (1939) was completed, MGM scheduled Madame Curie as her next picture. Pleased with the financial and critical success of Ninotchka, MGM decided to pair Garbo and Douglas in another romantic comedy.
It was the first of 14 consecutive commercially successful films that the pair co-wrote including the comedy Ninotchka (1939), and the romantic drama Hold Back the Dawn (1941), which both received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
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1939 Ninotchka: Metro Goldwyn Mayer: Comedy: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas: Producer 1940s: 1940 The Shop Around the Corner: Metro Goldwyn Mayer: Comedy: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan: Producer 1941 That Uncertain Feeling: Lubitsch Prod. Sol Lesser Productions: Comedy: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith: Producer 1942 To Be or Not ...