Greta Garbo’s NINOTCHKA Screening
Ernst Lubitsch’s delightful Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series "Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, July 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will begin at 7 p.m., with the ninth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the animated short The Autograph Hound, featuring Donald Duck.
In Ninotchka, Garbo (above, with Lubitsch) plays a Russian agent out to retrieve three other agents who have been corrupted by the decadent lights of Paris. While in [...]
by Andre Soares | July 11, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Four-Star Oscar Movies, Greta Garbo, Los Angeles Screenings, Melvyn Douglas, Ninotchka, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies, Romantic Comedies
