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Silk Stockings

  • 19571957
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 57m
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6.8/10
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Silk Stockings (1957)
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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.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.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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    • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Writers
    • Leonard Gershe(screenplay)
    • Leonard Spigelgass(screenplay)
    • Melchior Lengyel(suggested by "Ninotchka" by)
  • Stars
    • Fred Astaire
    • Cyd Charisse
    • Janis Paige
    • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Writers
    • Leonard Gershe(screenplay)
    • Leonard Spigelgass(screenplay)
    • Melchior Lengyel(suggested by "Ninotchka" by)
  • Stars
    • Fred Astaire
    • Cyd Charisse
    • Janis Paige
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    • 60User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
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    Trailer 2:58
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    Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings (1957)
    Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings (1957)
    Fred Astaire and Janis Paige in Silk Stockings (1957)
    Cyd Charisse, Roy Fitzell, Bruce Hoy, and Carl Ratcliff in Silk Stockings (1957)
    Peter Lorre, Joseph Buloff, and Jules Munshin in Silk Stockings (1957)
    Peter Lorre, Cyd Charisse, Joseph Buloff, and Jules Munshin in Silk Stockings (1957)
    Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings (1957)
    Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings (1957)
    Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings (1957)
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    Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire
    • Steve Canfield
    Cyd Charisse
    Cyd Charisse
    • Ninotchka Yoschenko
    Janis Paige
    Janis Paige
    • Peggy Dayton
    Peter Lorre
    Peter Lorre
    • Brankov
    George Tobias
    George Tobias
    • Vassili Markovitch
    Jules Munshin
    Jules Munshin
    • Bibinski
    Joseph Buloff
    Joseph Buloff
    • Ivanov
    Wim Sonneveld
    • Peter Ilyitch Boroff
    Don Anderson
    Don Anderson
    • Restaurant Patron
    • (uncredited)
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    • Wife
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Arnold
    • Soviet Guard
    • (uncredited)
    Jan Arvan
    Jan Arvan
    • Director
    • (uncredited)
    Susan Avery
    • Model
    • (uncredited)
    Virginia Bates
    • Model
    • (uncredited)
    Belita
    Belita
    • Vera
    • (uncredited)
    Herman Belmonte
    • Reporter
    • (uncredited)
    Rodney Bieber
    • Dancer
    • (uncredited)
    John Bleifer
    • Tenant
    • (uncredited)
      • Rouben Mamoulian
    • Writers
      • Leonard Gershe(screenplay)
      • Leonard Spigelgass(screenplay)
      • Melchior Lengyel(suggested by "Ninotchka" by)
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    • Trivia
      After this film, Fred Astaire effectively retired from musicals, preferring to concentrate on non-musical roles, though he would produce several musical specials for TV in the next few years. Astaire wouldn't make another musical until Finian's Rainbow (1968).
    • Goofs
      It becomes fairly obvious during the "Fated to be Mated" duet between Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse that Charisse is wearing a skirt one moment and culottes (or flared shorts) the next. The bottom half of her costume changes on each cut of the dance when they are doing deep knee bends, and this is where the culottes show. For the upright spins and lifts, the skirt shows. The dance was obviously performed twice and edited into one sequence.
    • Quotes

      Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: I want to look somebody up. Does this office have a copy of Who's Still Who?

    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Too Bad (We Can't Go Back to Moscow)
      (uncredited)

      Written by Cole Porter

      Sung and Danced by Fred Astaire, Jules Munshin, Joseph Buloff (dubbed by Bill Lee),

      Peter Lorre (dubbed), Barrie Chase, Tybee Brascia, Betty Utey and dancers

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    7/10
    By no means a miss, but not exactly a smash hit.
    There are a number of good things about Silk Stockings, but there also is a professional finality about the movie that makes it easier to observe than to be delighted by it. It was one of the last of the big MGM musicals coming from Arthur Freed's production unit. It was the last musical Fred Astaire made as the lead. It was the last film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. It was based on the last Broadway musical Cole Porter wrote. Silk Stockings also was used to make a statement about the excesses some thought were ruining films and music...the advent of rock and roll and the technological changes in films with wide screen and stereo sound. It even takes a crack at the fashion for ballet in many musicals. You've got to be very clever and original to successfully parody things which are already self-parodies. Silk Stockings, even with its many entertaining moments, isn't that clever.

    The story is based on Ninotchka, the female Soviet commissar who comes to Paris and finds romance reluctantly...and then enthusiastically. Paris is presented as a place where decadence was never more innocent and persuasive.

    One of the things that seems so odd is that, for a Fred Astaire film, Astaire spends a good deal of time doing knee drops, full-length on-the-floor sprawls and athletic dance moves that limit the sophisticated and smooth Astaire style. He was 59 when he made the picture, and this might explain the relative shortness of some of the sequences. Still, while he is assured and immensely watchable (and while he can still do wonders with a cane), three major dance productions he is in just seem choppy.

    Most of the songs from the Broadway show were retained and Porter wrote a couple of new ones. It's become routine with Porter to say that whatever his latest show was, the score was never one of his best. In this case, it's true. The romantic songs are great, but the topical specialty numbers just seem tired. Siberia and The Ritz Roll and Rock in particular miss the mark, in my opinion.

    Astaire, as always, is first class. Charisse is easy to look at and a fine dancer. George Tobias, as a commissar in Moscow and Ninotchka's boss, gives a sly and dead-pan performance. Some of Porter's songs are very good. Mamoulian brought the film in on time and under budget. And Silk Stockings was a success with ticket buyers.
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    • Release date
      • July 18, 1957 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • 1 hour 57 minutes
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