Word: ninotchkas
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Ninotchka (Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas; TIME...
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Though the comedy becomes somewhat chilled when the comrades return to Moscow, there are such inspirations as a parade on the Red Square with marchers stolidly carrying hundreds of identical pictures of Stalin. There are scenes in Ninotchka's small apartment whose limited lebensraum she shares with a girl cellist, a beefy Russian streetcar conductress of the kind Poet e. e. cummings called "non-men," and a dark, dumpy little man who plods silently in & out-"You never know whether he is going to the washroom or the secret police...
Good gag: When Ninotchka asks, "Aren't you in love with our Five Year Plan?", cracks Melvyn Douglas: "I've been in love with that Five Year Plan for the last 15 years...