The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing | |
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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
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October 1, 1955 |
Running time
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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.