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Sheer delight! - Silk Stockings
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Title: Silk Stockings

Release Date: 28 Jun 1957

Runtime: 1h 57m

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance

Director: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.7 (57 votes)

Cast

  • Steve Canfield: Fred Astaire
  • Ninotchka Yoschenko: Cyd Charisse
  • Peggy Dayton: Janis Paige
  • Peter Ilyitch Boroff: Wim Sonneveld
  • Brankov, Commisar: Peter Lorre
  • Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: George Tobias
  • Bibinski, Commisar: Jules Munshin
  • Ivanov, Commisar: Joseph Buloff
  • Dancer Gabrielle (uncredited): Barrie Chase
  • Dancer Fifi (uncredited): Tybee Brascia
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