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== Translations and adaptations ==
 
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Adapted for the stage and first performed in French as ''[[Ninotchka]]'' in Paris on April 4, 1950 with  Sophie Desmarets and Henri Guisal.  
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Adapted for the stage by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and first performed in French as ''[[Ninotchka]]'' at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris on April 4, 1950 with  Sophie Desmarets and Henri Guisal.  
 
   
 
   
 
Adapted into an [[Afrikaans]] stage play (from the French version?) by **  under the title ''[[Nina, Verlief in Parys]]'' ("Nina in love in Paris").   
 
Adapted into an [[Afrikaans]] stage play (from the French version?) by **  under the title ''[[Nina, Verlief in Parys]]'' ("Nina in love in Paris").   

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Ninotchka is a stage version of the film script by the Hungarian playwright and screenwriter Melchior Lengyel (Menyhért Lengyel) [1] (1880-1974).


The original text

The original idea for a romantic comedy about a Russian spymaster who falls in love on a visit to Paris, was proposed by Melchior Lengyel in 1937, then converted to a screen play for the Garbo film Ninotchka (1939) by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch. Melchior was nominated for an Oscar for his original story.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted for the stage by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and first performed in French as Ninotchka at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris on April 4, 1950 with Sophie Desmarets and Henri Guisal.

Adapted into an Afrikaans stage play (from the French version?) by ** under the title Nina, Verlief in Parys ("Nina in love in Paris").

Adapted to the stage musical 1955 Broadway musical Silk Stockings, and filmed under this title in 1957.

In 1960 an ABC Special television production of Ninotchka, was aired.

In 1961 the Dramatists Play Service published Ninotchka: a stage comedy by Menyhért (Melchior) Lengyel.

South African performances

1953: Produced by NTO in Afrikaans as a stage play entitled Nina, Verlief in Parys, playing for 63 performances. Directed by **, with Petro van der Walt, Gerrit Wessels, **.


Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninotchka

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031725/

http://www.filmsite.org/nino.html

http://www.worldcat.org/title/ninotchka-a-stage-comedy/oclc/908300501?referer=di&ht=edition

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/347/Ninotchka/notes.html

Rinie Stead, 1985b

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