Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings was a 1954 musical composed by Cole Porter, to a stageplay by George Kaufman, Leueen McGrath and Abe Burrows that was in turn based upon the 1939 film Ninotchka, Melchior Lengyel's romantic fable about the seductive charms of capitalism and one particular capitalist that warm the heart of a dedicated aparatchik, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo,

Silk Stockings was made into a movie in 1957 starring Fred Astaire (his last full-fledged movie musical), Cyd Charisse, and Peter Lorre (in a singing role) as directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

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