Movie
Silk Stockings
Overview
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. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).
Details
- Release date
- 1957-06-28
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Music, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Fred Astaire as Steve Canfield
- Cyd Charisse as Ninotchka Yoschenko
- Janis Paige as Peggy Dayton
- Wim Sonneveld as Peter Ilyitch Boroff
- Peter Lorre as Brankov, Commisar
- George Tobias as Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
- Jules Munshin as Bibinski, Commisar
- Joseph Buloff as Ivanov, Commisar
- Barrie Chase as Dancer Gabrielle (uncredited)
- Tybee Brascia as Dancer Fifi (uncredited)
- Lilyan Chauvin as Dancer Sonia (uncredited)
- Rodney Bieber as Dancer
Crew
- Rouben Mamoulian - Director
- Melchior Lengyel - Writer
- George S. Kaufman - Writer
- Leonard Gershe - Screenplay
- Leonard Spigelgass - Screenplay
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