The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
The Girl in the Velvet Swing (1955) is a 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.
It is the fictionalized story of Evelyn Nesbit, a model and actress, and the widely publicized scandal surrounding the murder of her former lover, architect Stanford White, by her current husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw. Nesbit served as a technical adviser on the film.
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
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