Garbo Talks! proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas). Working from a cleverly barbed script written in part by Billy Wilder, director Ernst Lubitsch knew better than anyone how to marry refinement with sublime wit. "At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous," he explained about his acclaimed Lubitsch Touch. That's how we see Garbo's lovestruck Ninotchka: serenely dignified yet endearingly ridiculous. Garbo laughs. So will you.
DVD Details
>Rated: NR
>Runtime: 1 hours, 50 minutes
>Video: BLACK & WHITE
>Encoding: Region 1(US & Canada)
>Originally Released: 1939
>Label: Warner
Starring: Greta Garbo; Melvyn Douglas; Ina Claire; Bela Lugosi; Sigfried Rumann; Felix Bressart; Alexander Granach; Gregory Gaye; Rolfe Sedan; Edwin Maxwell; Richard Carle
DVD Details
>Rated: NR
>Runtime: 1 hours, 50 minutes
>Video: BLACK & WHITE
>Encoding: Region 1(US & Canada)
>Originally Released: 1939
>Label: Warner
Starring: Greta Garbo; Melvyn Douglas; Ina Claire; Bela Lugosi; Sigfried Rumann; Felix Bressart; Alexander Granach; Gregory Gaye; Rolfe Sedan; Edwin Maxwell; Richard Carle
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