Silk Stockings

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film musical film

Silk Stockings is a 1957 musical film adaptation of the stage musical (itself based on the film Ninotchka), best known for starring Fred Astaire in one of his final major screen musical roles.

Aliases (1)

Silk Stockings (stage musical) ×2

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film → musical film →
adaptationOf	Silk Stockings (stage musical) →
adaptedFromFilm	Ninotchka →
artDirectionBy	Cedric Gibbons → Urie McCleary →
basedOn	Ninotchka → Silk Stockings (stage musical) →
cinematographyBy	Robert Bronner →
colorProcess	Metrocolor →
composer	Cole Porter →
costumeDesignBy	Helen Rose →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Rouben Mamoulian →
distributor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer →
editedBy	Gene Ruggiero →
genre	musical film → romantic comedy film →
lyricist	Cole Porter →
narrativeElement	Cold War-era satire of Soviet bureaucracy →
narrativeSetting	Paris →
NinotchkaDirector	Ernst Lubitsch →
NinotchkaStar	Greta Garbo →
notableFor	being one of Fred Astaire's final major screen musical roles →
originalLanguage	English →
producer	Arthur Freed →
productionCompany	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer →
releaseDate	1957-07-18 →
releaseYear	1957 →
runningTime	117 minutes →
screenwriter	Leonard Gershe →
setDecorationBy	Edwin B. Willis NERFINISHED → Hugh Hunt →
stageMusicalBookBy	Abe Burrows → George S. Kaufman → Leueen MacGrath →
stageMusicalMusicBy	Cole Porter →
starring	Cyd Charisse → Fred Astaire → George Tobias → Janis Paige → Jules Munshin → Peter Lorre →
title	Silk Stockings →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cole Porter → Cyd Charisse → Fred Astaire → Frederick Austerlitz → Rouben Mamoulian →	notableWork
Silk Stockings ("Silk Stockings (stage musical)") →	adaptationOf
Silk Stockings ("Silk Stockings (stage musical)") →	basedOn
Silk Stockings →	title