The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
| The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Richard Fleischer |
| Written by | Walter Reisch Charles Brackett |
| Produced by | Charles Brackett |
| Starring | Ray Milland Joan Collins Farley Granger |
| Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
| Edited by | William Mace |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | October 1, 1955 |
Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.7 million[1] |
| Box office | $1.3 million (US)[2] |
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is a 1955 DeLuxe Color film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger. The CinemaScope film was released by Twentieth Century-Fox, which had originally planned to put Marilyn Monroe in the title role, and then suspended her when she refused to do the film.[3]
Plot
The film relates the fictionalized story of Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins). Nesbit was a model and actress who became embroiled in the scandal surrounding the June 1906 murder of her former lover, architect Stanford White (Ray Milland), by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw (Farley Granger). Nesbit served as a technical adviser on the film. She had appeared in about a dozen silent films for Fox Film from 1914-1919.
Cast
- Ray Milland as Stanford White
- Joan Collins as Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
- Farley Granger as Harry Kendall Thaw
- Luther Adler as Delphin Delmas
- Cornelia Otis Skinner as Mrs. Thaw
- Glenda Farrell as Mrs. Nesbit
- Frances Fuller as Mrs. Elizabeth White
- Phillip Reed as Robert Collier
- Gale Robbins as Gwen Arden
- James Lorimer as McCaleb
- John Hoyt as William Travers Jerome
- Robert F. Simon as Stage Manager
- Harvey Stephens as Dr. Hollingshead
- Emile Meyer as Hunchbacher
See also
- List of American films of 1955
- Ragtime, a 1981 film also treating the true story of Thaw and Stanford White.
References
External links
- The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing at IMDb
- The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing at AllMovie
- The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing at the TCM Movie Database
- The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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