Smooth as Silk is a 1946 American noir film directed by Charles Barton and starring Kent Taylor, Virginia Grey, and Milburn Stone.

Successful lawyer Mark Fenton seeks to, and achieves, the acquittal of young playboy Don Elliott, who is accused of driving drunk and killing a pedestrian After completing the case, Mark approaches Don's uncle and trustee—the respected theater producer Stephen Elliott—to give his girlfriend, actress Paula Marlowe a role in his new theatrical production.

Mark introduces the sisters to his friend, the district attorney John Kimble, and to his teacher, the experienced lawyer Fletcher Holiday.

However, Don refuses to talk about this with his uncle on the grounds that the main character of the play is a vicious and deceitful woman, and he knows that such a role does not fit Paula at all.

After that evening, Paula begins dating Stephen, while staying in touch with Mark but ignoring Don, who again starts to drink because of despair.

Arriving at the scene, Kimble immediately begins to suspect Paula, especially after he finds the evidence that Mark planted in advance.

Mark, taking the received weapon, goes to the Elliott house, intent on killing Don and disguising the murder as a suicide.

As it turns out, Kimble specifically arranged this trap for Mark, persuading Don to serve as bait and preloading his pistol with empty cartridges.

Hal Erickson of Allmovie gave the film three stars out of five and stated "Though running a scant 65 minutes, Smooth as Silk packs a bigger wallop than some of Universal's more ambitious "A" melodramas of the same period.