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Silk Stockings

1957, Movie, NR, 117 mins

Silk Stockings: Review

Great light entertainment based on Ernst Lubitsch's classic screen comedy Ninotchka and featuring the music of Cole Porter. Fred Astaire stars as a Hollywood film producer in Paris who pursuades a touring Soviet composer (Wim Sonneveld) to remain in France and score his film. Back in the U.S.S.R., Commissar Vassili Markovitch (George Tobias) sends first a trio of underlings (Peter Lorre, Jules Munshin, Joseph Buloff), who easily fall prey to the capitalist charms of Paris, then exemplary Communist Ninotchka (Cyd Charisse) to retrieve the composer. Can love win over ideology? Read the complete review for Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings: Cast & Details

Year: 1957
Rated NR

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Cast
Fred Astaire: Steve Canfield
Cyd Charisse: Ninotchka
Janis Paige: Peggy Dainton
Peter Lorre: Brankov
Jules Munshin: Bibinski
Joseph Buloff: Ivanov

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Famed MGM Dancer Cyd Charisse Is Dead | Movie News | 6/17/2008
Cyd Charisse who was known for her dancing in classic films with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly died Tuesday in Los Angeles She was in her mid-80s Her publicist confirmed to press that Charisse was admitted to the hospital Monday after suffering a heart attack and did not recoverA Texas native she got her start with the Ballet Russe but became known as a darling of the musicals of the 1940s and 50s Along with Rain Charisse starred in numerous classics including Ziegfeld Follies The Band Wagon and Brigadoon MGM was her home studio and she once described it as a fairyland says the AP Born as Tula Ellice Finklea Charisse married Nico Charisse in 1939 and then Tony Martin in 1948 She has two sons Tony Jr and NickySilk Stockings was the last of her dancing roles in films but she continued to act in dramatic roles making her Broadway debut in 1992 One of her more famous subsequent roles was as Dean Martins new wife in 1962s Somethings Got to Give which wa read more be the first to leave a comment

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