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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Dinner at Eight from 1933, Ninotchka from 1939, and The Golden Touch from 1935.
Dinner at Eight is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz, based on George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1932 play of the same title.
The film features an ensemble cast of Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, and Billie Burke.
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
Dinner at Eight continues to be acclaimed by critics; review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 90% based on 21 reviews.
In 2023, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.
Directed by: George Cukor.
Screenplay by: Frances Marion, Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Additional dialogue: Donald Ogden Stewart
Based on: Dinner at Eight By: George S. Kaufman, AND Edna Ferber.
Produced by: David O. Selznick.
Starring: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, AND Billie Burke.
Cinematography: William H. Daniels.
Edited by: Ben Lewis.
Music by: William Axt.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Release date: 29 August 1933.
File Length: 111 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $435,000.
Box office: $2,156,000 (worldwide rentals).
Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.
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.
It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch, based on a screen story by Melchior Lengyel.
Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full comedy, and her penultimate film; she received her third and final Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
In 1990, Ninotchka was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In 2011, Time also included the film on the magazine's list of "All-Time 100 Movies".
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch.
Screenplay by: Melchior Lengyel, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Walter Reisch.
Story by: Melchior Lengyel.
Produced by: Ernst Lubitsch, and Sidney Franklin.
Starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, and Ina Claire.
Cinematography: William H. Daniels.
Edited by: Gene Ruggiero.
Music by: Werner R. Heymann.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Release date: 9 November 1939.
File Length: 110 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1.4 million (est.).
Box office: $2.3 million.
The Golden Touch is a Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoon made in 1935.
The story is based on the Greek myth of King Midas, albeit updated into a Medieval setting.
It was the last film directed by Disney.
Directed by: Walt Disney.
Story by: Albert Hurter.
Produced by: Walt Disney.
Starring: Billy Bletcher.
Music by: Frank Churchill.
Animation by: Norm Ferguson, and Fred Moore.
Production company: Walt Disney Productions.
Distributed by: United Artists.
Release date: 22 March 1935.
File Length: 10 minutes.
Country: United States.
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