"Ninotchka"
Meeting Greta Garbo in Paris
Find laughs in a 70-year-old romantic comedy
| November 17, 2009
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This week, Bill Newcott highlights a romantic comedy ... that's 70 years old. Released the same year as "Gone with the Wind," "The Wizard of Oz," and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," this film, "Ninotchka," features Greta Garbo, who plays a Russian bureaucrat being romanced in Paris.
While Newcott says the film was meant as a "scorching send-up of Communism"- Garbo's Ninotchka rejects what she regards as the decadences of the West- he says the true takeaway from the film is Garbo's laugh.
Listen to find out what he means.


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