- The Girl in the Kremlin
Infobox Film
name = The Girl in the Kremlin
caption = A promotional lobby card for "The Girl in the Kremlin."
starring =Lex Barker Zsa Zsa Gabor Maurice Manson Natalie Darryl
director =Russell Birdwell
producer =Albert Zugsmith
distributor = flagicon|USUniversal International Pictures | released = April 11,1957
runtime = 81 min.
language = English
music =Joseph Gershenson
imdb_id = 0050440|"The Girl in the Kremlin" is a
1957 American thriller which puts forth the premise thatJoseph Stalin (played byMaurice Manson ) faked his own death in1953 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. Thehead 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. [ [http://members.tripod.com/~llwyd/unwilling/kremlin.htm The Girl In The Kremlin - TheMakeupRoom.com] ]
*This was the last film directed byRussell Birdwell who later became a well-knownpublicist .References
External links
*imdb title|id=0050440|title=The Girl in the Kremlin
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