Silk Stockings (film)

Silk Stockings is a 1957 Metrocolor MetroGoldwynMayer CinemaScope musical film adaptation of the 1955 stage musical of the same name, which itself was an adaptation of the film Ninotchka 1939. Silk Stockings was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and stars Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. The supporting cast includes Janis Paige, Peter Lorre, Jules Munshin, and George Tobias repeating his Broadway role.

A brash American film producer, Steve Canfield Fred Astaire, wants Russian composer Peter Illyich Boroff Wim Sonneveld to write music for his next picture, which is being made in Paris. But when the composer expresses his wish to stay in Paris, three comically bumbling operatives, Comrades Brankov Peter Lorre, Bibinski Jules Munshin and Ivanov Joseph Buloff, are sent from Moscow to take Boroff back.Canfield manages to corrupt them with decadent western luxuries champagne, nightclubs etc. and talks them into allowing Boroff to stay. He also arranges for his leading lady, Peggy Dayton Janis Paige, to convince Boroff to cooperate. ........

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