Ninotchka | |
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Directed by | Tom Donovan |
Written by | Roger O. Hirson (1960 adaptation) Melchior Lengyel (story) |
Screenplay by | Charles Brackett (1939 screenplay)) Walter Reisch (1939 screenplay) Billy Wilder (1939 screenplay) |
Produced by | David Susskind |
Starring | Maria Schell Gig Young Zsa Zsa Gabor |
Distributed by | American Broadcasting Company |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Ninotchka is a 1960 American TV film. It is a remake of the 1939 Greta Garbo film Ninotchka . It was directed by Tom Donovan. [1]
Ninotchka (Maria Schell) is a dedicated Soviet official on assignment in Paris to barter jewels for farm machinery. Her perspective on life changes when she falls in love.
It was one of a series of movies that David Susskind and his Talent Associates adapted for television. The starring role was given to Maria Schell who had just appeared in a TV adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls . Schell said she had not seen the film. She added that Billy Wilder told her "This is a girl who feels she has to be in love with mankind -and she falls in love with a man." [2]
The Los Angeles Times called it an "expert production". [3] The Chicago Tribune said Schell "couldn't have been a bigger hit." [4] The New York Times called it a "highly polished production" which had "dated". [5]
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