Silk Stockings

Film Version

Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Screenplay by Leonard Gershe and Leonard Spigelgass; based on the stage musical by George Kaufman, Leueen McGrath and Abe Burrows; from Ninotchka by Melchior Lengyel

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release
(July 1957; 117 minutes; Color)
Produced by Arthur Freed
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Cinematography by Robert Bronner
Art Direction by William A. Horning and Randall Duell
Set Design by Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt
Costumes by Helen Rose
Music Direction by Andre Previn
Choreography by Eugene Loring and Hermes Pan

Cast

Fred Astaire (Steve Canfield), Cyd Charisse (Ninotchka), Janis Paige (Peggy Dayton), Joseph Buloff ( Ivanov), Peter Lorre (Brankov), Jules Munshin (Bibinski), George Tobias (Vassili Markovitch), Wim Sonneveld (Peter Ilyitch Boroff), and Barrie Chase

Note: Cyd Charisse's singing vocals were dubbed by Carol Richards

Musical Numbers

• "Too Bad" - Steve, Ivanov, Brankov, Bibinski
• "Paris Loves Lovers" - Ninotchka, Steve
• "Stereophonic Sound" - Peggy, Steve
• "It's a Chemical Reaction, That's All" - Ninotchka
• "All of You" - Steve, Ninotchka
• "Satin and Silk" - Peggy
• "Silk Stockings" [instrumental] - Orchestra
• "Without Love" - Ninotchka
• "Fated to Be Mated" - Steve, Ninotchka [new song written for the film version]
• "Josephine" - Peggy
• "Siberia" - Ivanov, Brankov, Bibinski
• "The Red Blues" - Ninotchka, Ivanov, Brankov, Bibinski, Boroff
• "The Ritz Roll and Rock" - Steve [new song written for the film version]
• "Too Bad" (reprise) - Ninotchka, Ivanov, Brankov, Bibinski

Soundtrack Recording

MGM Studio Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn
(Carol Richards singing for Cyd Charisse)

Remastered with Bonus Tracks

Go to the Silk Stockings recordings
page for further information on these
releases.

 

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