The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
File:Poster of the movie The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing.jpg 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
Box office	$1.3 million (US)

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is a 1955 film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger. The 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. Nesbit was a model and actress who became embroiled in the scandal surrounding the June 1906 murder of her former lover, architect Stanford White, by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw. 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

External links

• The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing at IMDb