Silk Stockings
Musical version of `Ninotchka', based on the stage show 'Silk Stockings'. A Hollywood producer in Paris woos a beautiful Russian official whose business is to rescue her comrades from the decadent West. Gradually, she succumbs to the pleasures of luxury and romance.
Cast & credits
Cast
- Steve Canfield Fred Astaire
- Ninotchka Yoschenko Cyd Charisse
- Peggy Dayton Janis Paige
- Brankov Peter Lorre
- Commissar Vassili Markovitch George Tobias
- Bibinski Jules Munshin
- Ivanov Joseph Buloff
- Peter Ilyitch Boroff Wim Sonneveld
- [Vera, dancer] Belita
- [dancer] Betty Utey
- [dancer] Tybee Afra
- [Madame Fabour] Florence Wyatt
- [Sonia] Lilyan Chauvin
- [Fifi] Tybee Afra
- [Susette] Betty Uitti
- [Gabrielle] Barrie Chase
- [stage manager] Rolfe Sedan
- [former commissar] Leonid Snegoff
- [Russian civilian] Gregory Gaye
- [choreographer] Michel Panaieff
- [Russian guard] Frank Arnold
- [porter] Peter Camlin
- [reporter] Paul Bryar
- [reporter] Stephen Ellis
- [reporter] Eugene Borden
- [reporter] Roger Etienne
- [reporter] Jean Heremans
- [reporter] Francis Ravel
- [reporter] Albert Carrier
- [reporter] George Saurel
- [reporter] Marcel De La Brosse
- [reporter] Olga Borget
- [reporter] Geneviève Pasques
- [elderly waiter] Jean Del Val
- [director] Jan Arvan
- [tenant] John Blieffer
- [model] June McCall
- [model] Virginia Bates
- [model] Susan Avery
- [model] Arlene Karr
- [model] June Kirby
- [Mr Volotoff] Michael Mark
- [Mrs Volotoff] Zoia Karabonova
- [wife] Edith Angold
- [postwoman] Kaaren Verne
- [Russian Embassy official] Ivan Triesault
- [doorman] Manuel Paris
- [.] George Calliga
- [.] Gisele Verlaine
- [.] Leo Mostovoy
- [singing voice double for Cyd Charisse] Carol Richards
- [singing voice double for Peter Lorre] Ernest Newton
- [singing voice double for Joseph Buloff] William B. Lee
Credits
Direction
- Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
- Assistant Director Al Jennings
Production
- © Loew's Incorporated
- © Arthur Freed Productions Inc.
- Presented by/Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- A Production of Arthur Freed
Writing
- Screen Play by Leonard Gershe
- Screen Play by Leonard Spigelgass
- [Screenplay] Harry Kurnitz
- Suggested by 'Ninotchka' by Melchior Lengyel
- Book of Original Musical Play by George S. Kaufman
- Book of Original Musical Play by Leueen Mcgrath
- Book of Original Musical Play by Abe Burrows
- Produced on the stage by Cy Feuer
- Produced on the stage by Ernest H. Martin
Photography
- Director of Photography Robert Bronner
- Colour Consultant Charles K. Hagedon
Editing
- Film Editor Harold F. Kress
Design
- Art Director William A. Horning
- Art Director Randall Duell
- Set Decorations Edwin B. Willis
- Set Decorations Hugh Hunt
Costumes
- Costumes by Helen Rose
Make-up
- Make-up by William Tuttle
- Hair Styles by Sydney Guilaroff
Film processing
- [Filmed] In CinemaScope
- [Filmed] In Metrocolor
Music
- Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
- Orchestral Arrangements by Conrad Salinger
- Additional Orchestration Skip Martin
- Additional Orchestration Al Woodbury
- Music Supervised and Conducted by André Previn
- Vocal Supervision Robert Tucker
- Music Co-ordinator Lela Simone
Choreography
- All Dances in Which FA appears Chogrd by Hermes Pan
- All Other Dances Choreographed by Eugene Loring
- [Assistant Choreographer] David Robel
- [Assistant Choreographer] Angela Blue
- [Assistant Choreographer] Patricia Denise
- [Assistant Choreographer] Jeanne Coyne
- [Assistant Choreographer] Barrie Chase
Sound
- Recording Supervisor Wesley C. Miller
- Sound Recording Conrad Cahn
- Logo [Sound System] Perspecta Sound
- Logo [Sound System] Westrex Recording System