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Title: Victor Victoria (1982)
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| Robert Preston | ... | ||
| Lesley Ann Warren | ... | ||
| Alex Karras | ... | ||
| John Rhys-Davies | ... |
Andre Cassell
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Herb Tanney | ... |
Charles Bovin
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Michael Robbins | ... | |
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Norman Chancer | ... | |
| David Gant | ... |
Restaurant Manager
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Maria Charles | ... | |
| Malcolm Jamieson | ... | ||
| John Cassady | ... |
Juke
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In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant, a native Brit, can't get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn't even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole 'Toddy' Todd may befall the same fate as Victoria as he was just fired from his singing gig at a second rate club named Chez Lui. To solve both their problems, Toddy comes up with what he considers an inspired idea: with Toddy as her manager, Victoria, pretending to be a man, get a job singing as a female impersonator. If they pull this scheme off, Toddy vows Victoria, as her male alter ego, will be the toast of Paris and as such be extremely wealthy. That alter ego they decide is Polish Count Victor Grazinski, Toddy's ex-lover who was disowned by his family when they found out he was gay. The Count auditions for the city's leading agent, Andre Cassell, who, impressed, gets him a gig performing in the city's best nightclub. In the audience on the ... Written by Huggo
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Release Date:
19 March 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Victor/Victoria See more »Filming Locations:
Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UKEdit
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$21,933,614Company Credits
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[the man nods]
'Squash' Bernstein: Oh, you're lucky!
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(uncredited)
Music by Henry Mancini
Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Performed by Julie Andrews
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The young man who says Victor is "divine" at rehearsal is Blake Edwards' son and Julie Andrews' stepson, Geoffrey Edwards. See more »Goofs
When Norma is attacking King in the hotel suite, and Squash steps in to protect him, Norma picks up a "decorative" spear and charges, unfortunately, she charges a bit too fast, because she has to take a quick pause (half step backwards) to allow Squash to slam the bedroom door, which she then pierces with the spear. See more »Quotes
'Squash' Bernstein: [covered with snow, to a man opening his hotel room door] Do you have heat?[the man nods]
'Squash' Bernstein: Oh, you're lucky!
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Crazy World(uncredited)
Music by Henry Mancini
Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Performed by Julie Andrews
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Three of the stars of this movie all made their mark playing wholesome characters, (and all in musicals, ironically) but they certainly got rid of those personas in this film. Julie Andrews finally solved the problem of Maria by playing a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, Robert Preston's gay entertainer is a long, long way from Harold Hill, and Lesley Ann Warren... well, her floozy moll ("Ya mean you really aw... quee-uh?") basically erases all memories of Cinderella. All give excellent performances in this entertaining, funny film from director/co-writer Blake Edwards. And they all get to sing some great songs from Henry Mancini and Leslie Brucusse, among them "Le Jazz Hot," (in which Andrews sings in her lower range, and actually sizzles) "The Shady Dame From Seville," (first sung by Andrews, then hilariously reprised at the end by Preston) and "Chicago, Illinois." (Warren is great in that) Though there is a long stretch in the middle that either included jokes and/or subtleties that went over my head or just wasn't funny, though not bad, otherwise it's a great comedy. In addition to the three performers mentioned, James Garner is also good as the gangster who falls for Andrews but is unsure of her gender.