Word: ninotchka
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...their lives are more precious than any records." She then settled down, but one of her sister airwomen on that record flight flew Soviet military planes against the Finns recently. Raskova, according to Commerce Chamberman Williams, reminds one of the wooden Soviet female executive played by Garbo in Ninotchka...
...pronounce it, see it," say the ads; don't just see it, go two or three times and take a good long look, for "Ninotchka" is one of the funniest comedies, one of the most original and ingratiating love stories, and one of the most intelligent pieces of social criticism ever to come out of Hollywood. Garbo laughs, Melvyn Douglas laughs, and the audience guffaws at the happy, hysterical carryings-on of a female Soviet envoy in Paris, in the days when a Frenchman pulled down the shades, but not because of an air raid. Ernst Lubitsch's direction...
...Ninotchka (Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas; TIME...
...Ninotchka (Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas; TIME...
...entertaining, expertly carpentered Hungarian plays which Ferenc Molnar used to turn out by the dozen, which Hollywood does better than it does almost anything else and which Ernst Lubitsch does better than anybody else in Hollywood. Producer-Director Lubitsch, riding high again as a result of his success with Ninotchka, calls this one "a miniature Grand Hotel." But this time the improbable goings-on concern the paternal boss and clerks in the Budapest leather-goods shop of Matuschek (rhymes with hat-to-check) & Co. As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching...