Victor -Victoria (1982)

Victor / Victoria was released in 1982 musical comedy film, which involves transvestism and sexual identity as central themes. It stars Julie Andrews, James Collect , Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras and John Rhys-Davies. Blake Edwards bubbly gender-bender comic musical about a vocalist who pretends to be a female impersonator and becomes the toast of the 1934 paris cabaret scene. Julie Andrews, James Collect and Robert Preston star in a constantly ... Full Descriptionentertaining bonbon that boasts an excellent Academy prize winning score by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse. A down-and-out female vocalist takes a job working as a female impersonator and to her surprise becomes the toast of Paris cabarets in the 1930s, pleasing her gay coach and confusing an American suitor.

Academy Award Proposals : 7, including Best ( changed ) Film script , Best Actress--Julie Andrews. Academy Awards : Best Original Song Score. Blake Edwards tones down the broadly ludicrous style that's his signature with this sneaky musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as UK entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older mate, gay impresario Toddy ( Robert Preston ), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris.

Introducing her to the cabaret world as a Polish female impersonator Victor / Victoria. Victoria, now a lady pretending to be a person in drag, becomes a massive greatness in the club world. Chicago gangster King Marchan ( James Gather ) becomes particularly drawn by Victor / Victoria while visiting Paris with his dim-witted girlfriend, Norma ( Lesley Anne Warren ), and his ever-faithful bodyguard, Mash ( Alex Karras ), who's more than a small concerned by his boss's interest in a transvestite.

As Marchan attempts to get to the source of his attraction to the entertainer, making an attempt to expose the facts behind the rhinestone headdress, the farce commences, and the meaning of sex and sexual preference comes into question for all of the characters. A director who frequently shows an eagerness to let the seams in his work show for comic effect, Edwards has decided on classy smoothness here while opening himself to questions of sex that his earlier films had nervously mocked. Robert Preston takes the film as Victoria's stylish Svengali. The film won the Oscar for Best Music, Original Song Score and Its modification or Best adaption Score.

It was designated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Robert Preston ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Julie Andrews ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Lesley Ann Warren ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design and Best Writing, Script based mostly on Material from Another Medium.