Ninotchka

Ninotchka is a 1960 American TV film. It is a remake of the 1939 Greta Garbo film Ninotchka. It was directed by Tom Donovan. Plot summary Cast Maria Schell as Ninotchka Gig Young as Leon Mischa Auer as Buljanoff Leon Belasco as Iranoff Henry Lascoe as Kopalski Friedrich von Ledebur Zsa Zsa Gabor William Hansen Gerald Hiken Anne Meara as Anna Boris Tumarin Production It was one of a series of movies that David Susskind and his Talent Associates adapted for television. The starring role was given to Maria Schell who had just appeared in a TV adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Schell said she had not seen the film. She added that Billy Wilder told her "This is a girl who feels she has to be in love with mankind -and she falls in love with a man."