Ninotchka (1939) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

Cast

• Greta Garbo as Nina "Ninotchka" Ivanovna Yakushova
• Melvyn Douglas as Count Leon d'Algout
• Ina Claire as Grand Duchess Swana
• Bela Lugosi as Commissar Razinin
• Sig Ruman as Comrade Iranoff
• Felix Bressart as Comrade Buljanoff
• Alexander Granach as Comrade Kopalski
• Gregory Gaye as Count Alexis Rakonin
• Rolfe Sedan as Hotel Manager
• Edwin Maxwell as Mercier
• Richard Carle as Gaston
• George Davis as Porter at Railroad Station (uncredited)
• Dorothy Adams as Swana's Maid Jacqueline (uncredited)
• Monya Andre as Gossip (uncredited)
• Nino Bellini as Swana's Restaurant Guest (uncredited)
• Wilda Bennett as Swana's Restaurant Guest (uncredited)
• Symona Boniface as Gossip (uncredited)
• Frederika Brown as Swana's Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
• Emilie Cabanne as Gossip (uncredited)
• Paul Ellis as Minor Role (uncredited)
• Fred Farrell as Attendant (uncredited)
• Frank Fletcher as Minor Role (uncredited)
• Bess Flowers as Gossip (uncredited)
• Mary Forbes as Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
• Jody Gilbert as Streetcar Conductress - Moscow Roommate (uncredited)
• Lawrence Grant as General Savitsky (uncredited)
• Jennifer Gray as Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
• Winifred Harris as English Lady Getting Visa (uncredited)
• Ray Hendricks as Waiter (uncredited)
• William Irving as Bartender (uncredited)
• Hans Joby as Man at Railroad Station (uncredited)
• Charles Judels as Cafe Owner Pere Mathieu (uncredited)
• Armand Kaliz as Louis the Headwaiter (uncredited)
• Ernst Lubitsch as Himself - Director in Trailer (uncredited)
• Peggy Moran as First Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
• Sandra Morgan as Gossip (uncredited)
• Lucille Pinson as German Woman at Railroad Station (uncredited)
• Albert Pollet as Waiter (uncredited)
• Frank Reicher as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
• Constantine Romanoff as Man in Restaurant (uncredited)

Crew

• Ernst Lubitsch — Director
• Charles Brackett — Screenplay
• Billy Wilder — Screenplay
• Walter Reisch — Screenplay
• William H. Daniels — Director of Photography
• Werner R. Heymann — Original Music Composer

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