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Silk stockings: dance excerpt (Motion picture)

Title
Silk stockings: dance excerpt (Motion picture)
Publication
1957.

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Moving imageUse in library *MGZHB 2-2350Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Charisse, Cyd
  • Loring, Eugene, 1911-1982
Description
1 reel. 5 1/2 min. 198 ft. : sd. color.; 16 mm.
Summary
In this segment Cyd Charisse as the straight-laced Soviet envoy Ninotchka succumbs to the attraction of decadent Western attire. In the privacy of her hotel room she dances a solo scene in which, beginning with a pair of silk stockings, she gradually clothes herself in a whole outfit of alluring feminine garments and then meets man-about-town Fred Astaire for a date.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Alan Boehmer.
Note
  • Excerpt from the MGM motion picture. Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Choreography for this sequence by Eugene Loring.
Call Number
*MGZHB 2-2350
OCLC
NYPY867019690-F
Title
Silk stockings: dance excerpt (Motion picture)
Imprint
1957.
Local Subject
Motion pictures. Silk stockings.
Added Author
Charisse, Cyd, dancer.
Loring, Eugene, 1911-1982, choreographer.
Research Call Number
*MGZHB 2-2350
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