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Winner of the Ottawa Book Award Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Top Five Canadian Fiction Book of the Year A Maclean’s Top Ten Book of the Year Elizabeth Hay’s runaway national bestseller is a funny, sad-eyed...

"Garbo Laughs." That was the entire marketing campaign for Ninotchka (1939) — and it worked. This week Riley and Mark review Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy starring Greta Garbo as a Soviet envoy who travels to Paris and slowly, reluctantly, loses her ideological armor. They dig into Garbo's performance, whether Melvyn Douglas earns his place as the romantic lead, the film's surprisingly sharp political satire, and what it means that Hollywood was poking fun at both capitalism and communism in 1939. Mark brings his theater lens to one of classic Hollywood's most iconic stars, and Riley makes...