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Remake of:

Ninotchka

Original title

Silk Stockings

Year

1957

Running time

117 min.

Country

United States

Director

Rouben Mamoulian

Screenwriter

Abe Burrows, Leonard Gershe, George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, Leonard Spigelgass

Cast

Music

Cole Porter

Cinematography

Robert Bronner

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre

Musical. Romance | Remake. Romantic Comedy

Synopsis

Fred Astaire took one of his final musical turns in this delightful 1957 comedy, a cold war update of the classic Ninotchka. Cyd Charisse, having previously wrapped her endless legs around Fred in The Band Wagon, plays the Greta Garbo role: a humorless Soviet functionary who sternly refuses the allure of Paris… for a while, anyway. Like some of the first widescreen musicals, Silk Stockings feels a little slowed down by the horizontal format, but nothing can dim the sparkle of Astaire and Charisse, nor quench the razzmatazz of Janis Paige. Paige and Astaire assess the current state of movies by singing that films today need "glorious Technicolor, breathtaking CinemaScope, and Stereophonic sound!" In the hands of Cole Porter, that phrase becomes wonderfully musical--and by the way, it's nice to see the composer identified with so many breezy 1930s songs staying au courant in the age of Sputnik and television. --Robert Horton

Rankings Position

#100 Best Remakes in the history of film
#130 Best Musical Movies

Awards: 1957: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Film - Comedy/Musical and Actress (Charisse)

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Silk Stockings

1957

Rouben Mamoulian

6.7

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