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Silk Stockings is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. It is based on the 1955 stage musical of the same name, which had been adapted from the film Ninotchka (1939). The film was choreographed by Eugene Loring and Hermes Pan.
Silk Stockings: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. With Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre. A Russian government official is sent to Paris to bring back her comrades; she soon gets a taste of Paris life and falls in love with an American movie producer.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Rouben Mamoulian
- 1957-07-18
Synopsis. After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them.
- Rouben Mamoulian
- 117 min
- 14
Silk Stockings was Astaire's last film as the dancing debonair romantic lead for which he had become famous and was his last film for M-G-M until the 1974 historical compendium That's Entertainment. Silk Stockings was also the first film Mamoulian had directed in nine years and was his last.
- Rouben Mamoulian, Al Jennings
- Fred Astaire
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them.
A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them.
Silk Stockings (1957) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
