Word: ninotchka
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...changed gears and had a comedy hit in 1939 with the sublimely funny Ninotchka, the film of hers that is most accessible to later audiences. But by then she was an anachronism, a piece of crystal under glass in the museum of antiquated acting. Europe, her biggest market, was closed when World War II began. As for the boys in uniform, they wanted heat from their stars, not Garbo's dry ice. So she retired, to be seen only with her hand up like a traffic warden's, fleeing prying paparazzi. Her hermitry made her even more renowned. Nothing attracts...
...henchman is a minor character in a fleeting scene in Some Like It Hot, but Billy Wilder couldn't resist giving him a line with a nifty reverse spin on it. That was Wilder all over. He gave Hollywood's top stars their finest, fullest roles: Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.), Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina and Love in the Afternoon), Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot), Jack Lemmon (The Apartment and six others). And what was in it for the viewer? Roiling dramatic dilemmas, complex adult characters and, memorably, some of the tastiest slices...
DICTATORIAL RUSSIA Greta Garbo is a humorless commissar in Ninotchka (1939; photo 2) who discovers that Western decadence is better than ideology...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "Seven Samurai" at 3:45 and 7:45 p.m. "Thank God I'm a Lesbian" at 4:30, 6:10, 8 and 9:45 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday. "Ninotchka" at 3:05 and 7:25 p.m. and "Camille" at 1, 5:15 and 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. Oct. 10. "Breathless" at 4:05 and 8 p.m. and "The Finger Man" at 2, 5:50 and 9:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11. "Once a Thief" at 4 and 8 p.m. and "Heroes...
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