La Belle de Moscow

Titre original : Silk Stockings

1957
Approved
1h 57m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,8/10

4,4 k

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Liretrailer2 min 58 s

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49 photos

Classic Musical Romantic Comedy Comedy Musical Romance

Après l'échec de trois agents soviétiques maladroits dans leur mission de récupérer un compositeur égaré à Paris, la belle et ultra-sérieuse Ninotchka est envoyée pour terminer leur mission ... Tout lireAprès l'échec de trois agents soviétiques maladroits dans leur mission de récupérer un compositeur égaré à Paris, la belle et ultra-sérieuse Ninotchka est envoyée pour terminer leur mission et les récupérer.Après l'échec de trois agents soviétiques maladroits dans leur mission de récupérer un compositeur égaré à Paris, la belle et ultra-sérieuse Ninotchka est envoyée pour terminer leur mission et les récupérer.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,8/10

4,4 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 5 nominations au total

Wife
(uncredited)

Frank Arnold

Soviet Guard
(uncredited)

Jan Arvan

Director
(uncredited)

Susan Avery

Model
(uncredited)

Virginia Bates

Model
(uncredited)

Belita

Vera
(uncredited)

Herman Belmonte

Reporter
(uncredited)

Rodney Bieber

Dancer
(uncredited)

John Bleifer

Tenant
(uncredited)

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Anecdotes
After this film, Fred Astaire effectively retired from musicals, preferring to concentrate on non-musical roles, though he would produce several musical specials for TV in the next few years. He wouldn't make another musical until La vallée du bonheur (1968).

Gaffes
It becomes fairly obvious during the "Fated to be Mated" duet between Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse that Charisse is wearing a skirt one moment and culottes (or flared shorts) the next. The bottom half of her costume changes on each cut of the dance when they are doing deep knee bends, and this is where the culottes show. For the upright spins and lifts, the skirt shows. The dance was obviously performed twice and edited into one sequence.

Citations
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: I want to look somebody up. Does this office have a copy of Who's Still Who?

Connexions
Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)

Bandes originales
I've Got You Under My Skin
(1936) (uncredited)
Music by Cole Porter
Heard at the beginning as Steve and Boroff arrive at the hotel

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5/10

Not exactly touched by Lubitsch

This is a musical remake of Ninotchka. Something MGM did repeatedly in the 1950s was remake a golden era classic of theirs in musical format, and it usually landed with a thud. This is no exception. The only thing I found interesting was Fred Astaire, who is always a joy to watch. Without him this effort would probably be a 3 or 4 out of ten. The surprise in the original Ninotchka was Garbo as an effective dead pan comedienne, but Cyd Charisse just bombs in this parallel role. Maybe the difference is that Americans had a completely different attitude towards Russia than they did in 1939, right before WWII. Maybe that kept MGM from doing anything the least bit challenging with the material almost twenty years later.

The musical numbers just slow everything down and most of them are boring. Rouben Mamoulian is the director, and in fact it is his very last credited directing role. He and Lubitsch, who directed the original Nitnotchka, were at Paramount at about the same time in the 1930s, but he just is unable to work any magic on this film.