Victor/Victoria (1982)

7.5	Listal rating
7.3	IMDB rating

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Blake Edwards' brilliantly bubbly gender-bender comic musical about a singer who pretends to be a female impersonator and becomes the toast of the 1934 paris cabaret scene. Julie Andrews, James Garner and Robert Preston star in an endlessly ... Full Descriptionentertaining bonbon that boasts a marvelous Academy Award-winning score by Henry Manci Blake Edwards' brilliantly bubbly gender-bender comic musical about a singer who pretends to be a female impersonator and becomes the toast of the 1934 paris cabaret scene. Julie Andrews, James Garner and Robert Preston star in an endlessly ... Full Descriptionentertaining bonbon that boasts a marvelous Academy Award-winning score by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse.
A down-and-out female singer takes a job as a female impersonator and to her surprise becomes the toast of Paris cabarets in the 1930s, delighting her gay mentor and confusing an American admirer. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best (Adapted) Screenplay, Best Actress--Julie Andrews. Academy Awards: Best Original Song Score.

Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris. Desperate for work, he changes her image, introducing her to the cabaret world as Polish female impersonator Victor/Victoria. Victoria, now a woman pretending to be a man in drag, becomes a huge success in the nightclub world. Chicago gangster King Marchan (James Garner) becomes especially intrigued by Victor/Victoria while visiting Paris with his dim-witted girlfriend, Norma (Lesley Anne Warren), and his ever-faithful bodyguard, Squash (Alex Karras), who's more than a little concerned by his boss's interest in a transvestite. As Marchan tries to get to the source of his attraction to the entertainer, trying to uncover the truth behind the rhinestone headdress, the farce commences, and the meaning of gender and sexual preference comes into question for all the characters. A director who often shows a willingness to let the seams in his work show for comic effect, Edwards has opted for stylish smoothness here while opening himself to questions of gender that his earlier films had anxiously mocked. Robert Preston steals the film as Victoria's graceful Svengali.

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Directed by

Blake Edwards

Starring (View all) :

Victoria Grant

King Marchand

Carole "Toddy" Todd

Norma Cassady

'Squash' Bernstein

Andre Cassell

Waiter

Labisse

Charles Bovin

Manager of Victoria's hotel

Written by (View all) :

Blake Edwards

writer

Hans Hoemburg

concept

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