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Silk stockings / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; an Arthur Freed Production ; screenplay by Leonard Gershe and Leonard Spigelgass ; directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961, author.
Contributor:
Mamoulian, Rouben, director.
Astaire, Fred, actor.
Charisse, Cyd, actor.
Paige, Janis, actor.
Lorre, Peter, actor.
Gershe, Leonard, screenwriter.
Spigelgass, Leonard, screenwriter.
Porter, Cole, 1891-1964, composer, lyricist.
Lengyel, Menyhért, 1880-1974.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producer.
Arthur Freed Productions, producer.
Warner Home Video (Firm), distributor.
Series:
Classic musicals collection
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Communists--France--Paris--Drama.
Communists.
France--Paris.
Genre:
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Drama.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Edition:
Widescreen.
Place of Publication:
Culver City, CA : Warner Home Video, [2003]
Language Note:
English and French soundtracks; English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
System Details:
DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 surround; Region 1.
digital
optical
surround
Dolby digital 5.1
video file
DVD video
region 1
Summary:
A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.
Participant:
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre.
Credits:
Director of photography, Robert Bronner; film editor, Harold F. Kress; music and lyrics by Cole Porter; music supervised and conducted by André Previn; orchestral arrangements by Conrad Salinger.
Notes:
Based on an original musical play by George S. Kaufman, Leueen McGrath and Abe Burrows, which was in turn based on Ninotchka / by Melchior Lengyel.
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1957.
Special features: Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and silk, hosted by Cyd Charisse; 2 musical shorts: Paree, Paree and The poet and peasant overture; behind-the-scenes notes; theatrical trailer.
Contains:
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and silk
Paree, Paree
Poet and peasant overture
ISBN:
0790765535
OCLC:
187608954
Publisher Number:
012569562929
65629 Warner Home Video

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