Ninotchka

Ninotchka1939

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Greta Garbo, Ina Claire
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 110 minutes

Who was Greta Garbo? For a while the greatest of all movie stars, then a celebrated recluse, always "the mysterious lady," Garbo purred, "I want to be alone," and people took her at her word. Of course, the real Garbo is actually the "reel" Garbo, t… more »



Ninotchka:
Bring me something simple. I never think about food.

Mathieu:
[horrified] Madame, if you don't think about food, what do you think about?

Ninotchka:
The future of the common people.

Mathieu:
That's also a question of food.

[Mathieu leaves]

Leon:
You insulted him, you know that? You hurt his feelings. It was just like telling a musician that you don't like music. Why that good old man believes in food just as you believe in Karl Marx. You can't go around hurting people like that, Comrade Yakushova. But you can make it up to him. Do you know how? By eating everything that he brings you with relish, by drinking everything with gusto, by having a good time for the first time in your natural life!

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