Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings is a musical by Cole Porter for the film Ninotchka by Ernst Lubitsch, this is based on the spectacle Ninocska (1937 ) by Melchior Lengyel. The book for the musical was created by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows. The premiere took place on 24 February 1955 at the Imperial Theatre in New York. The role of Ninotchka then took Hildegard Knef, the male lead role was played by Don Ameche, the play was performed 478 times on Broadway. The German -language premiere was on October 5, 1974 at the Linz State Theatre in a translation by Wilfried Steiner instead.

Content

In the period of the Cold War, the Soviet secret agent Nina Yaschenko, of course, a convinced communist, sent into the capitalist and decadent Paris. They should bring back the Soviet national composer Pyotr Ilyich Boroff and bring three officials of the Moscow Department of Culture, who are there for the same reason, ideological again on course. Your opponent is the American film producer Steve Canfield, who wants to keep the composer for film music in Paris. But the hard-liner soon succumbs to the charm of the Seine metropolis, the benefits of the western way of life and even the seduction of the American. What she wants but can not admit because of their solid class point. Before now, the two finally find each other, Nina returns to Moscow, only to be lured back by a ruse of the American.

Well-known musical numbers

• Paris Loves Lovers (Eng. Paris loves the Love)
• It's a Chemical Reaction, That's All (Eng. A chemical reaction, that's all )
• All of You (Eng. I like the charm of you)
• Without Love (Eng. What has happened )

Filming

The musical was in 1957 under the title of Rouben Mamoulian silk stockings, inter alia, a film starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, and Janis Paige.