January 29 movie: Ninotchka. I love this movie! Very funny romantic comedy starring Greta Garbo as a dedicated Soviet who comes to Paris on government business, and falls in love with Melvyn Douglas in spite of herself. Great supporting work by the master comic actors Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart and Alexander Granach as the three degenerate Soviet agents Garbo is sent to bail out. Also features Bela Lugosi as the stern Soviet commissar. The movie was remade as a musical called Silk Stockings with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in the leads, with Peter Lorre as one of the three Soviet goofs.
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