The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is a 1955 American 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.
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 paramour, architect Stanford White (Ray Milland), by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw (Farley Granger).
Cast
- Ainslie Pryor
- Aladdin
- Colin Kenny
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
- Edith Evanson
- Edmund Cobb
- Emile Meyer
- Farley Granger
- Frances Fuller
- Frank Mills
- Fred Aldrich
- Gale Robbins
- Glenda Farrell
- Harold Miller
- Harvey Stephens
- Henry Kulky
- Ivan Triesault
- Joan Collins
- John Hoyt
- Kay Hammond
- Leslie Parrish
- Luther Adler
- Phillip Reed
- Ray Milland
- Raymond Bailey
- Robert Adler
- Robert F. Simon
- Ruta Lee
- Stuart Holmes
- William Forrest
More details
author | Charles Brackett Walter Reisch |
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contentLocation | New York City |
director | Richard Fleischer |
editor | William Mace |
genre | crime drama |
keywords | evelyn nesbit extramarital sex harry kendall thaw paramour stanford white |
musicBy | Lionel Newman |
producer | Charles Brackett |
publisher | 20th Century Fox |
theme | biographical romantic drama |