Editing Ninotchka (section)

===Legacy===
In 1955, the [[musical theater|musical]] ''[[Silk Stockings]]'', based on ''Ninotchka'', opened on [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]]. Written by [[Cole Porter]], the stage production was based on ''Ninotchka's'' story and script and starred [[Hildegard Neff]] and [[Don Ameche]]. MGM then produced a [[Silk Stockings (1957 film)|1957 film version]] of the musical directed by [[Rouben Mamoulian]] and starring [[Fred Astaire]] and [[Cyd Charisse]]. Actor [[George Tobias]], who appeared uncredited in ''Ninotchka'' as the Soviet visa official, is featured in ''Silk Stockings'' as Commissar Markovitch. [[Rolfe Sedan]], who portrayed the hotel manager in ''Ninotchka'', appears uncredited as a stage manager in ''Silk Stockings''. The MGM films ''[[Comrade X]]'' (1940), starring [[Clark Gable]] and [[Hedy Lamarr]], and ''[[The Iron Petticoat]]'' (1956), starring [[Bob Hope]] and [[Katharine Hepburn]], both borrow heavily from ''Ninotchka''.

MGM had scheduled ''[[Madame Curie (film)|Madame Curie]]'' as Garbo's next film, but pleased with the success of ''Ninotchka'', the studio quickly decided to team Garbo and Douglas in another romantic comedy. ''[[Two-Faced Woman]]'' (1941) was the result and Garbo received the worst reviews of her entire career. It turned out to be her final film and [[Greer Garson]] eventually starred in ''Madame Curie''.

The Japanese filmmaker [[Akira Kurosawa]] cited ''Ninotchka'' as one of his favorite films.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Lee Thomas-Mason |title=From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/ |website=Far Out |date=January 12, 2021 |publisher=Far Out Magazine |access-date= September 20, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Akira Kurosawa's Top 100 Movies! | url = http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100327124349/http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | archive-date = March 27, 2010 | df = mdy-all }}</ref>

Filipino writer and activist [[Ninotchka Rosca]] revealed during a 1966 Philippine congressional hearing that her pen name was inspired by the film.<ref>{{cite news|last=Monteclaro|first=Eddie|title=Woman, recorder mar riot hearing|work=[[The Manila Times]]|publisher=The Manila Times Publishing Company, Inc.|date=November 25, 1966|pages=1, 20|quote=Congress probers yesterday irksomely barred a [[Kabataang Makabayan]] women's bureau leader — Mrs. Antonia Rosca-Peña, 21 — from tape-recording their proceedings and questioned her for almost two hours on the witness stand.[...] Asked by [[Salipada Pendatun|[Salipada K.] Pendatun]] if Ninotchka was a Russian name, she said it was taken from a '[[Greta Garbo]] movie.' The audience laughed.}}</ref>

[[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] [[Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda|Reich Minister of Propaganda]] [[Joseph Goebbels]] remarked in his meeting notes on June 9, 1940 that "The German press should go and see the excellent American anti-Soviet film ''Ninotchka''." He would later tell multiple German actors that he thought it was one of the best films he had ever seen.<ref>As quoted in Boelcke, Willi A. The Secret Conferences of Dr. Goebbels: October 1939-March 1943, edited by Willi A. Boelcke; trans. Ewald Osers. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970.</ref> During the [[1948 Italian general election]] the US State Department encouraged film distributors to show the film as a means of countering the increasingly popular [[Italian Communist Party]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Peter |last2=Shaw |first2=Tony |title=Hollywood's Cold War |date=2007 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |page=26}}</ref>