Silk Stockings

About Silk Stockings

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.

Silk Stockings (1957) is a comedy romance film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. At 117 minutes long, it arrived in July 1957.

Its themes are song and dance and musical.

Fred Astaire appears as Steve Canfield, Cyd Charisse as Ninotchka Yoschenko, Janis Paige as Peggy Dayton, and Peter Lorre as Brankov. The screenplay is by Leonard Gershe and Leonard Spigelgass.

White Christmas, The Cotton Club, and Holiday Inn make useful companions to Silk Stockings. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 66 votes and it carries a NR rating.