Episode # 7 Ninotchka / Silk Stockings

Hello movie lovers! - the latest episode of the States & Kingdoms Podcast!  

Home of the classic-est movies ever !!! This week we revisit the theme of a non-musical picture being remade into a musical. Specifically, we are talking about two movies we love - Ninotchka, and Silk Stockings.

Ninotchka(1939)

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Bela Lugosi

Written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch

Studio: MGM

Silk Stockings (1957)

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian

Starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre, Jules Munshin, and George Tobias

Choreography by Eugene Loring and Hermes Pan

Songs by Cole Porter

Studio: MGM

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Sean & Jenna