The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Produced by Charles Brackett
Written by Walter Reisch
Charles Brackett
Starring Ray Milland
Joan Collins
Farley Granger
Music by Leigh Harline
Cinematography Milton R. Krasner
Edited by William Mace
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
 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

See also

References

  1. ↑ Solomon, Aubrey (1989), Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, The Scarecrow Filmmakers, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, p. 249, ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1
  2. ↑ "The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955", Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956.
  3. ↑ "Trivia", IMDb.
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