Watch: Ninotchka 1939 123movies, Full Movie Online – Only the royal suite at the grandest hotel in Paris has a safe large enough for the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana. So the three Russians who have come to sell the jewels settle into the suite until a higher ranking official is dispatched to find out what is delaying the sale. She is Ninotchka, a no-nonsense woman who fascinates Count Leon who had been the faithful retainer of the Grand Duchess. The Grand Duchess will give up all claim to the jewels if Ninotchka will fly away from the count..
Plot: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Why Didn’t Garbo Make More Comedies?
I see that Billy Wilder collaborated on this. Was it a studio decision that Garbo wasn’t cast as a comedienne? From the evidence in this film, she should have been. Her timing is excellent, her delivery very special. This is a gem I’d never seen that deserves its National Registry status. In 1939 the Soviet Union had sympathizers in the US, and during the coming World War it was an ally. This gentle spoof of Soviet seriousness and self-conscious worker ethics foreshadows the arguments that were later trotted out after the War to begin the Cold War, but here the humor and satire are soft, more Noel Coward than propaganda.My lament is not seeing more comedy from Garbo. She made such serious and tragic films, when she could have been making us laugh. The film is dated, yes, but Garbo herself shines through along with her three Russian accomplices. I think that Billy Wilder and Garbo would have been a great team
Greta Garbo as Secret “Cold War” Weapon
Ninotchka has been making a hit with audiences since she hit the screen in 1939. A fascinating, yet little known, “second life” of the film was played out during the Italian Elections of 1947-48. The U.S. was most anxious that the Communists not be elected and pulled out all the stops to prevent it. One was to approach MGM and request prints of Ninotchka – to be shown widely to working class audiences in Italy. Since no 16mm prints of the film yet existed, MGM Labs did “print downs” from the original nitrate negative. The resulting prints are astonishingly beautiful (I have one) and they estimate five million Italians viewed it and other propaganda films each week before the elections – in spite of the efforts of the Communists to prevent its showing. One pro-Communist worker said afterward “What licked us was Ninotchka!” (See “Killing Hope” by William Blum). To paraphrase Carl Denham in King Kong, once again “Beauty Killed The Beast!”
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 1365000
Revenue 2279000
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch
Actors Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 5 wins & 8 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,443 m, 2,802 m, 3,068 m (12 reels)
Negative Format Black & White 35mm, Black & White 35mm (B&W), 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Black & White Spherical, Black & White Spherical (B&W), Spherical
Printed Film Format Black and White 35mm, Black and White 35mm (B&W), 35 mm