About Your Favorite Movie:
Ninotchka (1939). From IMDb: “A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.”
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Greta Garbo & Melvyn Douglas, it’s the only movie in which Garbo laughs. It’s romantic, but also hilarious. Filmed before WWII broke out, the Communists were still a fairly unknown quantity, and the greatest conflict was between the White Russians (pro-Tsar and mostly aristocrats) and the Red Russians.
It portrays the new
USSR accurately (censorship, fear, oppression) versus the free Europe but in
such a lighthearted, human way that it manages to be heartwarming. It’s also close
to my heart because at the end of the movie the comic relief trio of Russian
envoys open a restaurant in Istanbul—a restaurant that still existed in the
1970s when I went there!
About the Book:
About the
Author:
Librarian, anthropologist, Congressional aide, speechwriter—M. S. Spencer has traveled the
globe. She has published fifteen romantic suspense or murder mystery novels, with two more on the way. She has two fabulous grown children and an incredible granddaughter. She divides her time between the Gulf Coast of Florida and a tiny village in Maine.
Answer these
questions:
Red, White or Blue? : All three (they go
together so well!)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter? Spring
in Florida; Fall in Maine
Cake or Pie? Me-oh-my, pie!
Coffee, Tea, or Champagne? Champagne for
breakfast, lunch & dinner
Country music or Michael Buble? Country
all the way; not sure who Buble is.
Pencil or Pen? Pen, even for crosswords.
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Find M. S. Spencer at: Website
3 comments:
Thanks so much for having me hear to talk not only about my new release Hidden Gem: the Secret of St. Augustine, but about my absolute favorite movie! I hope your readers are intrigued.
I love your movie! And I've always wanted to go to St. Augustine. Thanks for joining me. vb
Waiting for bloggers to read my book and post a review is tiring. I used usbookreviews.com to gather reviews for my book and I am happy with the increase in reviews, sales and visibility.
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