Victor, Victoria
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Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
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| Directed by | Blake Edwards |
| Produced by |
Tony Adams Blake Edwards |
| Screenplay by |
Blake Edwards Hans Hoemburg (concept) |
| Based on | 1933 script by Reinhold Schünzel |
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| Music by |
Songs: Henry Mancini Leslie Bricusse (Lyrics) Score: Henry Mancini |
| Cinematography | Dick Bush |
| Edited by | Ralph E. Winters |
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| Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Co. |
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132 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $28,215,453 |
Victor/Victoria is a 1982 British-American musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. The film was produced by Tony Adams, directed by Blake Edwards, and scored by Henry Mancini, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. It was adapted in 1995 as a Broadway musical. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won the Academy Award for Original Music Score. It is a remake of the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria.
Set in 1934 Paris, the film opens with Richard di Nardo, a young hustler, emerging from the bed of gay middle-aged, Carroll Todd, a.k.a. Toddy. Richard dresses, and takes money from Toddy's wallet and leaves Toddy's apartment. Going about his day, Toddy, a performer at Chez Lui in Paris, sees Labisse, the club owner, auditioning a frail, impoverished soprano, Victoria Grant. After the audition, Labisse drily writes her off, and she responds by sustaining a pitch to shatter his wine glass using resonant frequency. Victoria reluctantly returns to her apartment to find herself deciding whether or not to trade her rent money for an italian dish. That night, Richard comes to Chez Lui as part of a straight foursome and Toddy incites a brawl by insulting Richard and the women in his group. Labisse fires Toddy and bans him from the club. Walking home, he spots Victoria dining at a restaurant, and she invites him to join her. As neither of them can pay for the meal, she dumps a cockroach in her salad to avoid paying their check, but it escapes and the whole place breaks out in havoc.
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