Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Writers: Leonard Gershe; Leonard Spigelgass

From novel: Ninotchka by Melchior Lengyel

From a play by: George S. Kaufman; Leueen MacGrath; Abe Burrows

Music and Lyrics by: Cole Porter

Producer: Arthur Freed

Keywords: Musical Comedy

A Russian composer is writing a score for an American motion picture in Paris; three commissars sent to retrieve him have failed to bring him back. Ninotchka is dispatched to return all four. Partial remake of Ninotchka (1939), a comedy which ran as as the musical Silk Stockings for 478 performances on Broadway in 1955-56. One of the last great MGM musicals.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Fred Astaire	Dancer	10-May-1899	22-Jun-1987	Broadway ballroom dancer
Joseph Buloff	Actor	20-Jan-1899	27-Feb-1985	Yiddish stage actor
Cyd Charisse	Dancer	8-Mar-1922	17-Jun-2008	Vamp dancer in Singin' in the Rain
Peter Lorre	Actor	26-Jun-1904	23-Mar-1964	The Maltese Falcon
Jules Munshin	Actor	22-Feb-1915	19-Feb-1970	On the Town
Janis Paige	Actor	16-Sep-1922		Please Don't Eat the Daisies
George Tobias	Actor	14-Jul-1901	27-Feb-1980	Abner Kravitz on Bewitched

CAST

Starring
Fred Astaire	...   Steve Canfield
Cyd Charisse	...   Ninotchka
Also Co-Starring
Janis Paige	...   Peggy Dainton
Peter Lorre	...   Brankov (commissar)
with
George Tobias	...   Markovitch (Commissar of Art)
Jules Munshin	...   Bibinski (commissar)
Joseph Buloff	...   Ivanov (commissar)
Wim Sonneveld	...   Peter Ilyitch Boroff

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