Greta Garbo

Melvyn Douglas

Ina Claire

Bela Lugosi

Sig Ruman

Felix Bressart

Alexander Granach

Gregory Gaye

Rolfe Sedan

Edwin Maxwell

Richard Carle

George Davis

Dorothy Adams

Monya Andre

Nino Bellini

Wilda Bennett

Symona Boniface

Frederika Brown

Emilie Cabanne

Paul Ellis

Fred Farrell

Frank Fletcher

Bess Flowers

Mary Forbes

Jody Gilbert

Lawrence Grant

Jennifer Gray

Winifred Harris

Ray Hendricks

William Irving

Hans Joby

Charles Judels

Armand Kaliz

Ernst Lubitsch

Peggy Moran

Sandra Morgan

Lucille Pinson

Albert Pollet

Frank Reicher

Constantine Romanoff

Alexander Schoenberg

Harry Semels

Tamara Shayne

Florence Shirley

George Sorel

Edwin Stanley

Kay Stewart

George Tobias

Jacques Vanaire

Ellinor Vanderveer

Paul Weigel

Elizabeth Williams

Marek Windheim

Wolfgang Zilzer

Charles Fogel

Dick Gordon

Herschel Graham

Billy Wilder

William H. Daniels

Gene Ruggiero

Charles Brackett

Werner R. Heymann

Walter Reisch

Cedric Gibbons

Edwin B. Willis

Adrian

Sidney Franklin

Sidney Cutner

William Riley

Arnold Webster

George Elder

Jack Rohan

Horace Hough

Randall Duell

Conrad Kahn

Melchior Lengyel

Douglas Shearer

Beth Langston

Wally Heglin

Sydney Guilaroff

Leonid Raab

John Waters

Jack Dawn

Maurice De Packh

A. Lindsley Lane

Milton Brown

Comedy

Romance

Ninotchka

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

United States of America

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Although Greta Garbo takes top billing here - and she's great - I think this film really belongs to the on-form Melvyn Douglas as the scheming "Leon". He is the boyfriend of the Imperial Grand Duchess "Swana" (Ina Claire) who is living in exile in Paris. The newly formed Soviet Union is a bit broke, so three of it's finest representatives have arrived with what was her priceless jewellery so they can sell it on. "Leon" sees a chance for them to cash in so gets an injunction stalling the sale and that results in Moscow sending their best agent (Garbo) to get the job done. She's a no-nonsense communist in the best tradition, but she hadn't quite factored in the charismatic Frenchman who aims to firmly insert a spanner in the works. What now ensues is a delightfully funny drama that takes a swipe at the establishments of both nations, at the all too frequent ridiculousness of dogma and at flawed and quirky human nature. There's loads of chemistry here - all centring nicely around Douglas, and the triptych of her cohorts "Buljanoff" (Felix Bressart), "Kopalski" (Alexander Granach) and "Iranoff" (Sig Rumann) - who really just want to open a nice restaurant somewhere - add a nice touch of stooge-ness to the proceedings. As with Bergman and Dietrich, the camera simply loves Garbo and her slightest frown or smile speaks a hundred words. Seen here with a leading man who is charming and confident and with an entertaining story underpinning everything, this really is a jolly good watch.

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