“Sheer delight!”
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).
Fred Astaire
Steve Canfield
Cyd Charisse
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Janis Paige
Peggy Dayton
Wim Sonneveld
Peter Ilyitch Boroff
Peter Lorre
Brankov, Commisar
George Tobias
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
Jules Munshin
Bibinski, Commisar
Joseph Buloff
Ivanov, Commisar
Barrie Chase
Dancer Gabrielle (uncredited)
Tybee Brascia
Dancer Fifi (uncredited)
Silk Stockings is a comedy, music, romance film released in 1957 exploring themes of musical, song and dance. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, it stars Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige. 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).
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