See this film: Ninotchka at the Somerville Theatre
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Some may have been more beautiful, but no other
actress has been as ethereal, otherworldly, and unattainable. So when Greta
Garbo spoke on screen in her first sound film, it was a big deal. And when she
first laughed? She did so as the hardnosed Soviet commissar who ends up seduced
by Paris and Melvyn Douglas's aristocratic enemy of the people in Ernst
Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939), and it might be her best
role of all. It screens Sunday, July 31 @ 11 am and Monday, August 1 @ 5 pm and 8pm at the
Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville | 617.625.5700 or
somervilletheatreonline.com.