GretaGarbo &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:GretaGarbo @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:54:16 +0200 Ninotchka (1939) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ninotchka-1939 <![CDATA[Ninotchka (1939) Ninotchka and Leon (Garbo and Douglas) cracking up. DP: William H. Daniels. Ninotchka (1939) ### July 1: a joke for #InternationalJokeDay Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) Garbo laughs! The great Garbo was known for her beauty, her coolness, her tragedy, for a lot but her laughter. So typecast she became that the tagline for Ninotchka (1939) – Garbo laughs! – is a #joke in itself. Penned by the great Billy Wilder, the Ernst Lubitsch directed comedy unexpectedly temporarily revived #Garbo's career, who by the time 1938 came around had become box office poison. And the joke? Well… ##### A man comes into a restaurant. He sits down at the table and he says, “Waiter, bring me a cup of coffee without cream.” Five minutes later, the waiter comes back and says, “I'm sorry, sir, we have no cream. Can it be without milk?” Ninotchka (1939) #Bales2023FilmChallenge #ErnstLubitsch #BillyWilder #GretaGarbo #MelvynDouglas #WernerRHeymann #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #communism #romance #USA #1930s todo]]> Ninotchka (1939)
Ninotchka and Leon (Garbo and Douglas) cracking up. DP: William H. Daniels.

Ninotchka (1939)

July 1: a joke for #InternationalJokeDay

Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)

Garbo laughs!

The great Garbo was known for her beauty, her coolness, her tragedy, for a lot but her laughter. So typecast she became that the tagline for Ninotchka (1939) – Garbo laughs! – is a #joke in itself.

Penned by the great Billy Wilder, the Ernst Lubitsch directed comedy unexpectedly temporarily revived #Garbo's career, who by the time 1938 came around had become box office poison. And the joke? Well…

A man comes into a restaurant. He sits down at the table and he says, “Waiter, bring me a cup of coffee without cream.” Five minutes later, the waiter comes back and says, “I'm sorry, sir, we have no cream. Can it be without milk?”

Ninotchka (1939)

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #ErnstLubitsch #BillyWilder #GretaGarbo #MelvynDouglas #WernerRHeymann #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #communism #romance #USA #1930s

#todo

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ninotchka-1939 Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:40:18 +0200 Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/grand-hotel-1932 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" World Typing Day/div div class="img" Grand Hotel (1932)/div div class="caption" Despite Flaemmchen – Joan Crawford in her breakout role – is introduced as a “little stenographess”, that's clearly a typewriter on her desk. DP: William H. Daniels./div div class="txt" "Grand Hotel… always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens." ### – Flaemmchen\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldTypingDay #EdmundGoulding #VickiBaum #GretaGarbo #JohnBarrymore #JoanCrawford #LionelBarrymore #CharlesMaxwell #WilliamHDaniels #BookAdaptation #typewriters #PreCode #USA #1930s/div /section ]]>

Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932)

Jan

8

World Typing Day

Grand Hotel (1932)

Despite Flaemmchen – Joan Crawford in her breakout role – is introduced as a “little stenographess”, that's clearly a typewriter on her desk. DP: William H. Daniels.

“Grand Hotel… always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.”

– Flaemmchen

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldTypingDay #EdmundGoulding #VickiBaum #GretaGarbo #JohnBarrymore #JoanCrawford #LionelBarrymore #CharlesMaxwell #WilliamHDaniels #BookAdaptation #typewriters #PreCode #USA #1930s

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