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Ninotchka
Screen Guild Theater · September 14, 1950 · 59 min · 8,303 words
The transcript of “Ninotchka”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast September 14, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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In just a few moments we'll present the Screen Guild Theater, and later this evening be sure to hear the original amateur hour. In the field of entertainment the castle of success is difficult to enter.
First you must cross the motive ability and experience, then crash through the Golden Gate marked opportunity. That's where the original amateur hour comes to the rescue. Each week a dozen or more talented people are chosen as the tops in entertainment value.
For these the Golden Gate of opportunity swings wide when the original amateur hour gives them the chance to be heard. There's entertainment galore tonight when the newcomers buy to enter the castle of success on the original amateur hour over your ABC station.
Listen to Hollywood's greatest stars in Hollywood's greatest motion pictures on the air. American Broadcasting Company brings you the ScreenGale Theatre. Tonight it's John Fontaine and William Powell in Metro Golden Mayor's memorable and hilarious story Ninochka. As the second presentation of its brilliant new season, the Screen Guild Theatre brings you tonight one of the most delightful and charming
comedies ever made in Hollywood. Not only gay and rollicking but timely and pertinent too. More than ever we're sure you will enjoy Ninochka starting William Powell and Joan Fontaine. Of course you remember the famous old quip, good Americans go to Paris when they die. Well apparently good Russians don't wait that long, at least not the three with whom our story begins. We find them this lovely
April morning on the sidewalk outside the hotel clearance. They are standing at the massive plate glass doors and peering rather wistfully into the hotel's sumptuous lobby. Cameron, why should we lie to each other? It's wonderful.
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