MONACO DANCE FORUM - (FILM) SILK STOCKINGS
Rouben Mamoulian

To prevent the composer Pierre Borov from putting his proletarian talent at the service of an American capitalist film, Commissars Bibikov, Ivanov and Brankov are sent to Paris to bring the musician back willingly or by force. He is not keen to end up in a Soviet paradise and confides in Steve Canfield, his producer, who takes on the task of taming Moscow’s emissaries and succeeds beyond all expectations. With no remorse, they have only one desire: to make their stay in Paris a long one. Eventually Moscow becomes worried and dispatches a super agent, Comrade Anna, a.k.a. Ninochka, to investigate.

SILK STOCKINGS: United States, 1956, color, 118 min. Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian | Screenplay by: Leonard Gershe and Leonard Spigelgass based on the libretto of the musical "Ninotchka" by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, Abe Burrows | Cinematography: Robert Bronner | Music: Cole Porter | Choreographies: Hermes Pan, Eugene Loring | Artistic direction: William A. Horning, Randall Duell | Sets: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt | Costumes: Helen Rose | Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Arthur Freed Productions | With: Fred Astaire (Steve Canfield), Cyd Charisse (Nina Yoshenko), Janis Paige (Peggy Dayton), Peter Lorre (Brankov), Jules Munshin (Bibinski), George Tobias (Vassili Markovitch), Joseph Buloff (Ivanov), Wim Sonneveld (Peter Ilyitch).