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...Life. Mosig calls first upon the 225 elect whom he subdivides into the Managers, the Influencers, and the Scientists. Among these are Douglas MacArthur, Henry Luce, Pandit Nehru, Hirohito, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Plus XII, General Ridgway, Eddie Rickenbacker, J. Edgar Hoover, King Farouk, Walt Disney, Greta Garbo, Evita Peron, Dashiell Hammett, and Dorothy Thompson. He claims that he sent a copy of his pamphlet to each one of these...
...next dance. Margaret was diplomatically delighted" to meet him, but, she said, "I'm terribly sorry, I seem to be booked up just now." The next evening at the home of Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, former British Ambassador to France, Margaret charmed the guests, including Greta Garbo, with an hour's session at the piano, playing and singing French songs. Next day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and aides had to cool their heels for 40 minutes waiting to serve Margaret tea while her chauffeur tried to find SHAPE headquarters. The Princess was all apologies and smiles when...
...Garbo is very persuasive as a hard-boiled, sexless Comrade, and her mission is ultimately successful. But she loses her Marxist ways when she encounters an antagonist, Melvyn Douglas. Champagne and class struggle don't mix, and the result is marriage for Garbo and Douglas and a capitalistically-operated Russian restaurant for the old trio...
...which has not been on the American screen since 1936. It has been used successfully by liberal and rightist candidates in the post-war Italian and French elections, although its versions of Western life are dishonest. The major fault of the film is in the directing; the transition between Garbo the Comrade and Garbo the Siren is to abrupt. However, the plot and dialogue are extremely amusing. People should see "Ninotchka" and get all possible laughs from black-bearded Communism of fifteen years...
...massive array of promising eyes, perfect legs and pneumatic bosoms, he finds nothing that can quite match his favorites of yesteryear-Theda Bara, the archetype of the Vamp; Gloria Swanson, with her passion for spangles and feathers; Clara Bow, the original "It" girl; Greta Garbo, the incomparable Swede, still a legend after a decade off the screen; Jean Harlow, whose platinum-blonde petulance and provocative lisp still agitate nostalgic memories in thousands of aging males...