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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.
Ninotchka (Maria Schell) is a dedicated Soviet official on assignment in Paris to barter jewels for farm machinery. Her perspective on life changes when she falls in love. Cast
Pre-war American films such as Comrade X and Ninotchka depict the Soviet Union as backwards, dreary, depressing and totalitarian. After the United States entered the war on Russia's side, however, Hollywood's depictions of Russians immediately changed to brave, honorable, freedom-loving liberators. The UK specifically pulled Comrade X from the ...
Silk Stockings is a musical with a book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.The musical is loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel story Ninotchka and the 1939 film adaptation it inspired. [1]
Ernst Lubitsch (/ ˈ l uː b ɪ tʃ /; January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor.His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".
At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Bressart appeared in Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939), as one of the Soviet emissaries followed by Greta Garbo to Paris. MGM signed Bressart to a contract, where most of work consisted of featured supporting roles in major films including Edison, the Man, Comrade X, and Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner, all released in 1940.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (/ ˌ æ d ɪ ˈ w ɒ l i ˌ æ k ɪ ˈ n ɔɪ eɪ æ ɡ ˈ b ɑː dʒ eɪ /; [1] Yoruba: [ādéwálé ākĩ́nùójè āɡ͡bádʒé] ⓘ; born 22 August 1967) is an English actor.