Ninotchka 1939 What Do You Do For Mankind? Review

with Greta Garbo as Ninotchka and Melvyn Douglas as Leon.
LEON: Where shall we begin?
NINOTCHKA: I will start with you.
LEON: Excellent. Let's see, I'm 35 years old, just over 6 feet tall and weigh 182 pounds, stripped.
NINOTCHKA: What is your profession?
LEON: My profession? Keeping my body fit, keeping my mind alert and keeping the landlord appeased, that's a full-time job.
NINOTCHKA: And what do you do for mankind?
LEON: For mankind? Yes, not so much for mankind but for womankind, my record isn't quite so bleak.

[Emma-Charlotte-Watson]

Smart! Keeping my body fit, keeping my mind alert and keeping the landlord appeased, that's a full-time job.

[Drew-Barrymore]

😉 The comedy, through Mr. Douglas's debonair performance and those of Ina Claire as the duchess and Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart and Alexander Granach as the unholy three emissaries; through Mr. Lubitsch's facile direction; and through the cleverly written script of Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, has come off brilliantly. Stalin, we repeat, won't like it; but, unless your tastes hew too closely to the party line, we think you will, immensely.🐅

[Sam--Sung]

Womankind is much more interesting than mankind! 😄