Victor/Victoria (1982)

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7.6	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Blake Edwards

Starring (View all)

Julie Andrews
Victoria Grant

James Garner
King Marchand

Robert Preston
Carole Toddy Todd

Lesley Ann Warren
Norma Cassady

Alex Karras
'Squash' Bernstein

John Rhys-Davies
Andre Cassell

Graham Stark
Waiter

Peter Arne
Labisse

Written by

Blake Edwards
(screenplay)

Reinhold Schünzel
1933 script

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9 years, 5 months ago at Jun 29 13:16

Bruce P. Levy

Wonderful and fun movie full of comedy, singing and dancing. Robert Preston is delightful as the gay character Toddy, and his scene where he takes over for Victoria on stage is howlingly funny. I also like my jazz hot!

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Description: 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 entertaining 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 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 entertaining 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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Release date: 19 March 1982
UPC: 012569520325

Tags: Musical (11), Comedy (10), Romance (10), Glbt (7), 1980s (5), 1982 (4), Love (3), Food (3), Gay (3), Restaurant (3), Hotel (3), Julie Andrews (2), Show (2), Opera (2), Blake Edwards (2), Queer (2), Singing (2), Bug (2), Acting (2)

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