Victor/Victoria

Victor/Victoria (1982)

Timing: 2:14 (134 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

1982-04-25

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Peerford Ltd., Artista Management

Genre

Music, Comedy, Romance

Budget

$15 000 000

Revenue

$28 215 453

Website

https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/victorvictoria

Director

Blake Edwards

Actors

Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies, Graham Stark, Peter Arne, Herb Tanney, Michael Robbins
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Blake Edwards, Tony Adams

Operator

Dick Bush

Composer

Henry Mancini

Artist

Audition

Mary Selway

Editing

Ralph E. Winters, Denis Johnson Jr
All team (24)

• The cockroaches were delivered to the set in a kind of “deep freeze.” They were placed where needed for filming and thawed out with hair dryers. Those involved in the filming process could only hope that the cockroaches would behave as expected. No one knows where these cockroaches ran off to after the episode was finished filming!
• Tom Selleck was originally intended to play Marshan. However, by the time filming began, Selleck was completely booked with work on the popular series "Magnum, P.I." (1980-8), and the role went to James Garner.
• Ernest Day was initially slated to be the film's cinematographer.
• Robert Preston's final musical number was filmed in one take.
• In an interview, director Blake Edwards confessed that when King Marshan first kissed Victor/Victoria, saying "I don't care if you're a man or a woman," in the initial cut he genuinely didn't know whether he/she was a man or a woman. But fearing impropriety, Edwards inserted a scene in which King peeks at Victoria bathing, and thus learns of her gender beforehand.
• The cockroaches were delivered to the set in a kind of "deep freeze." They were placed where they were needed for filming and thawed with hair dryers. Those involved in the filming process could only hope that the cockroaches would behave as required. No one knows where these cockroaches ran off to after the filming of the episode!
• Tom Selleck was originally supposed to play Marshan. However, by the time filming began, Selleck was fully booked with work on the popular series "Magnum, P.I." (1980-8), and the role went to James Garner.
• In one interview, director Blake Edwards confessed: when King Marshan first kissed Victor/Victoria, saying "I don't care if you're a man or a woman" in the first cut, he genuinely didn't know who he/she was. But fearing impropriety, Edwards inserted a scene in which King peeks at Victoria bathing, and thus learns about her sex in advance.