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The Girl in the Kremlin

  • Rating: Star
  • Genre: Drama
  • Director: Russell Birdwell
  • Main Cast: Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jeffrey Stone, Maurice Manson
  • Release Year: 1957
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 81 minutes

Plot

Zsa Zsa Gabor plays twin sisters in this campy Red Scare espionage thriller from the late 1950s. She plays the nurse to Joseph Stalin, who didn't die in 1953 after all. The death was all a nefarious scam in which the leader faked his death, had his face surgically rearranged and then moved to Greece with a fortune in Soviet currency. Nurse Zsa Zsa, who is also Stalin's lover. Unfortunately, she told no one where she was going. When her twin discovers her missing, she worries and hires an ex O.S.S. agent to find her. After much searching and danger, the agent finds the wicked dictator and sees that he this time his reign of terror is permanently ended. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

  • Lex Barker - Steve Anderson
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor - Lili Grisenko
  • Jeffrey Stone - Mischa Rimilkin
  • Maurice Manson - Molda Stalin

William Schallert - Jacob Stalin; Natalie Daryll - Dasha; Aram Katcher - Lavrenti Beria; Norbert Schiller - Ivan Brubof; Michael Fox - Igor Smetka; Elena Da Vinci - Olga Smetka; Phillipa Fallon - Nina; Charles Horvath - Deshilov; Kurt Katch - Commissar; Alfred Linder - Tata Brun; Zsa Zsa Gabor - Greta Grisenko; Franz Roehn - Old Man; Henry Rowland - Policeman; Dale Van Sickel - Cabby; Carl Sklover - Rashti; Peter Besbas - Wine Shop Owner; Albert Szabo - Truck Driver

Credit

DeWitt Bodeen - Short Story Author; Joseph E. Gershenson - Composer (Music Score); Alexander Golitzen - Art Director; Carl Guthrie - Cinematographer; Robert J. Hill - Screenwriter; Eric Orbom - Art Director; Harry Ruskin - Short Story Author; Bill Thomas - Costume Designer; Sherman Todd - Editor; Albert Zugsmith - Producer; Russell Birdwell - Director; Gene L. Coon - Screenwriter
 
 
Wikipedia: The Girl in the Kremlin
The Girl in the Kremlin
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A promotional lobby card for "The Girl in the Kremlin."
Directed by Russell Birdwell
Produced by Albert Zugsmith
Starring Lex Barker
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Maurice Manson
Natalie Darryl
Music by Joseph Gershenson
Distributed by Flag of the United States Universal International Pictures
Release date(s) April 11, 1957
Running time 81 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

The Girl in the Kremlin is a 1957 American thriller which puts forth the premise that Joseph Stalin (played by Maurice Manson) faked his own death in 1953 and then moved to Greece with a fortune in Soviet currency. Zsa Zsa Gabor plays a dual role, Stalin’s nurse and lover as well as her twin sister who, unaware of Stalin’s plot, hires an ex O.S.S. agent (Lex Barker) to find her sister.

Trivia

  • The film is best known for its opening scene where Stalin sadistically orders that a young woman with waist-length hair (played by Natalie Darryl in her only big screen appearance) have her head shaved completely bald. The head shaving is shown from start to finish, and was prominently featured in the advertising for the film despite having nothing to do with its plot.[1]
  • This was the last film directed by Russell Birdwell who later became a well-known publicist.

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