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 date	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 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.

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.