Top Cast
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Lyubov Orlova
Prof. Irina Petrovna Nikitina / Vera Giorgievna Shatrova
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Nikolai Cherkasov
Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
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Mikhail Sidorkin
Viktor Roschin
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Faina Ranevskaya
Margarita Lvovna, housekeeper
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Rostislav Plyatt
Vladimir Ivanovich Bubentsov
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Rina Zelyonaya
Gabby Film Makeup Designer
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Nikolai Konovalov
Uncle Lionia Mukhin
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Garen Zhukovskaya
Operetta star
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Boris Petker
Akakiy Abramovich
Overview
A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.
Rating
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It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.
Carnival Night
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Broadway Melody of 1940
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
Let's Make Love
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).
Silk Stockings
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
The Big Store
A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
Speedway
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
State Fair
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
The Merry Widow
New York sportswriter Mack has spent years devising successful hook-up "plays" with her friends, but when she unexpectedly falls for one of her targets, she must learn what it takes to go from simply scoring to playing for keeps.
Players
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.