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2 days ago · A: Garbo’s biggest movie hit was "Ninotchka," a 1939 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, which grossed $1.4 Million at the box office. Q: Was Greta Garbo a member of any notable organizations?
4 days ago · In an effort to enlarge movie director's meager influence in studio production decisions, Vidor personally exhorted a dozen or more leading directors, among them Howard Hawks, William Wellman, Ernst Lubitsch and Lewis Milestone to form a union, leading to the incorporation of the SDG in January 1936. By 1938, the collective bargaining unit had ...
5 days ago · Answer: Ninotchka The star concerned was Greta Garbo and the film was her first, and only, role in light comedy. In fact, the billboards carried the blurb 'Garbo Laughs!' on them.
5 days ago · Praised today in top lists for both its romantic and comedic elements (hardly a rom-com though), Ninotchka starred Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas and later inspired the musical, "Silk Stockings". The film poked fun at the Stalin led Soviet Union as Garbo, a strict adherent to Russian values found herself out of place (and in love!) in Paris.
3 days ago · In 1929, famed film director Ernst Lubitsch was looking through old screen tests of Broadway performers and spotted MacDonald. [23] He cast her as the leading lady in The Love Parade, his first sound film, which starred Maurice Chevalier.
4 days ago · Answer: Ninotchka Greta Lovisa Gustafsson is known for her serious roles, and her reclusive approach to the press, unlike most Hollywood stars of the time. She successfully made the transition from silent star to talkies in "Anna Christie" (1930) which was billed with the slogan 'Garbo Talks'.
4 days ago · Hong Kong cinema has a history of remaking Ernst Lubitsch films. Sit Kok-sin and Cho Kei respectively remade Love Parade (1929) into Romance of Jade Hall (1934) and the trilogy of My Kingdom for a Husband (1957), The Prince’s Romantic Affairs (1958), and My Kingdom for a Honeymoon (1958).
