Ninotchka

Ninotchka (1939)

Timing: 1:50 (110 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1939-11-16

Country

United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Genre

Comedy, Romance

Budget

$1 365 000

Revenue

$2 279 000

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Director

Ernst Lubitsch

Actors

Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Gregory Gaye, Rolfe Sedan, Edwin Maxwell
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Scenario

Producer

Ernst Lubitsch

Operator

William H. Daniels

Composer

Werner R. Heymann

Artist

Randall Duell

Audition

Editing

Gene Ruggiero
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• The slogan “Garbo laughs!” appeared even before the script for this film was written; moreover, the film itself is built around this slogan, which had already become legendary. Here's its story. Greta Garbo (1905-1990), a star of silent cinema, starred in her first sound film – Clarence Brown’s (1890-1987) melodrama “Anna Christie” (1930) – and the advertising slogan for this film was “Garbo speaks!”. When she was filming it, the slogan became “Garbo laughs!”, which was certainly pleasing to the actress’s numerous fans.
• According to the legendary director and screenwriter Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) contributed so much to writing the screenplay for this film that he and other screenwriters Charles Brackett (1892-1969) and Walter Reisch (1903-1983) took the unprecedented step of appealing to the Writers Guild of America for permission to include Lubitsch's name among the screenplay authors in the credits. Their request was denied.