It received eight Academy Award nominations (with one win, for its uncredited Assistant Directors Paul Wing and Clem Beauchamp, who directed the action sequences).BackgroundNinotchka(1939) was the long-awaited, classic romantic comedy, with a clever and witty script and the magnificent presence of actress Greta Garbo in herfirstofficial American comedy (in her next-to-last film)." The buyers were quickly scared off.Getz promised to arrange for back-dated building permits for the unapproved building of the hobby room above the garage.Debbie found herself trapped inside a ""roach-motel"" cardboard box where her feet stuck to the gooey floor.Claire was astonished to see that the lab was still being evacuated, as Hoskins and his workers were still packing embryos into refrigerated crates.