Silk Stockings discussion

The dresses are sooo beautiful!!!

@polybiusisntreal482 14

Twenty-one years spanned the incomparable era of the purpose-built MGM dance musical. The first was 'Broadway Melody of 1936', for which Arthur Freed wrote lyrics; the last was 'Silk Stockings', which he produced. The first starred Eleanor Powell, the last Fred Astaire. And so, fittingly, the figures who bookend a shelf-full of Hollywood's most magnificent creations were the two best dancers ever filmed.

@esmeephillips5888 5

To point out the other redeeming and spree-teeming drawing cards of this one of MGM's final fantastical musical classics, "a priceless and seamless gem with the mellifluent resplendence and a tad affluent transcendence", it has still, in all likelihood, its ingrainedly high-powered and peach-showered "feel-good" factors to revel in and to be stuck on. First and foremost, the Freed unit's hand- picked coterie of the most exceptionally-skilled stars and motivationally-steeled film crew in their respective fields of expertise ( both in aesthetical and technical aspects ) so as to communally turn out this capitalistic motion picture quite fitly and legitly crafted. On this ground let us not miss a chance to get enhanced elatedly and entranced calculatedly by the classic lines and lures of its entire musical segments as brilliantly laid out and reliantly carried out under the dependably and commendably passional pilotage of Mr Roeben Mamoulian with his strikingly-appended Russian lifestyle touch in coming up with the streamlined and well-outlined sequences, in particular the musical ones. For examples: In her solo dance number at the cosy royal suite, the dishy, peachy-keen Ms Cyd Charisse is sultrily and airily pirouetting in the time she's discreetly half-stripping off and meekly step-by-step slipping on her frillies, stay-ups, adds-on, and fancy high-heel shoes, and in Mr Eugene Loring's neoterically and athletically high-performance step-designed "Red Blues" schtick being expediently framed in wide screen format, the Beautiful Dynamite ( harping estimably and formidably on her easy-moving, up-tempo stylish footwork ) together with the chorus dancers are briskly kicking up their heels in this fairly-commended and squarely-blended Barynya folk dance, boogie, swing jazz, and a bit rock 'n' roll number. Ms Cyd Charisse is indeed a statuesque goddess with brilliancy, elegancy, and buoyancy. As highly anticipated, it's such quite wowed jollies and proud lovelies for all the age-old musical film aficionados to be undividedly a part of the master hoofer / the premier danseuse's quite unputdownable, so refinable, and too definable acts - heeding their thumbs-upped "well-matched-and-attached" collaboration in silver screen; their coactive team integrity, extreme alacrity, and supreme dexterity;and their full driving force in executing Mr Hermes Pan's uprightly romance- engilded and lithe-dance-wielded numbers of "All of You" and "Fated to be Mated" with flying colors, drawing power, and "fluidity-and-lucidity" in motion - to the guileless and timeless orchestral settings of Mr Conrad Salinger and Mr Skip Martin. In the same way it'd be a great honor and pleasure to speak nicely and concisely of the other film team's distinctively sure-handed crafts like Ms Helen Rose's sprucely modish ladies' wear designing, the best examples are Ms Cyd Charisse's comehither evening gown and Ms Janis Paige's elfin inky bandeau that fits well with the thin pinky robe slickly dolled up with fancy ribbon and salmon-pink fur-laced sleeves; Mr Randall Duell / Mr William A Horning and their well-grounded, slickly-bonded creative team's amplified managing and simplified staging of the look and feel of every scene backdrop - quite cogently and fulgently cinematized in a state-of-the-art anamorphic format "an indub panoramic viewing wonder"; Mr Robert Bronner's evenly pleasant and complaisant camera-handling "properly-proportioned scene angling and loud color dulling"; and Mr Cole Porter's keenly and cleanly stylised musical works "overall comfy and refined". May every passing moment count, and that is to think excitably Big, to act equitably Bouncy, and to feel suitably Beautiful. Just sit back and put your feet up while noshing in ease and gaily on home-made popcorn at this truly fuddy-duddy, goody-goody family-oriented MGM's musical gem with just right amount of comic relief, dynamic force, and good taste. No one wants to be alone in a time like this. "Just keep safe and in fine shape. First and foremost, be veristically and diagnostically adjured." Do oft remember that a heart in tune with this musical classic of attested durability, celebrated singularity, and delineated geniality sings melodies of praises unto the ages of ages. It surely does.

@sunnychuang369 10