Ninotchka
Starring: Greta Garbo, Bela Lugosi, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch, Sidney Franklin
Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. The film was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, based on a story by Melchior Lengyel.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress; Academy Award for Best Story; Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; Academy Award for Best Picture.
Previous Showings
17 Runs • 10 Festivals
17,524 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (December 17, 1939)
Original Run: December 17, 1939 (Sunday - Tuesday)
All runs on record (17):
- December 17, 1939 (Sunday - Tuesday)Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas
- February 27 - March 1, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ The Mark of Zorro (1940), The Shop Around the Corner, Blood and Sand, Golden Boy
- December 30 - 31, 1989 · 1,074 ticketsw/ Midnight
- May 18 - 20, 1990 · 2,064 ticketsw/ Two-Faced Woman, A Woman of Affairs
- January 25 - 31, 1992 · 2,745 ticketsw/ To Be or Not to Be
- February 12 - 17, 1994 · 1,673 ticketsw/ Love in the Afternoon
- August 15 - 16, 1996 · 793 ticketsw/ Love in the Afternoon
- February 19 - 22, 1998 · 924 ticketsMovie Listing Guide February 1998w/ The Shop Around the Corner
- August 11 - 13, 1999 · 1,147 ticketssummer99w/ Love in the Afternoon
- September 17 - 20, 2005 · 1,797 ticketsSummer 2005w/ Queen Christina
- November 10 - 12, 2009 · 500 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ To Be or Not to Be
- November 26 - 27, 2011 · 595 ticketsFall 2011w/ Camille
- May 27 - 31, 2015 · 1,335 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ The Mark of Zorro
- March 18 - 19, 2017 · 886 ticketsBritish and Lubitschw/ The Shop Around the Corner
- July 24 - 26, 2018 · 460 ticketsSummer 2018w/ Silk Stockings
- December 28 - 29, 2019 · 590 tickets80 Years Ago in This Theatre: The Films of 1939w/ The Cat and the Canary
- April 12 - 13, 2025 · 941 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ To Be or Not to Be