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One Touch of Venus (1948)

Director: William A Seiter

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Despite the rude deletion of over half the score and the less than ecstatic renditions of the remaining songs, a pleasantly witty adaptation of the Kurt Weill/ SJ Perelman/Ogden Nash musical. The gaps are only patchily filled by zany comic business presumably supplied by Frank Tashlin as co-screenwriter; but Robert Walker, excellent as the timid store clerk in love with a statue of Venus which comes alive as the predatory Gardner (dubbed in the songs by Eileen Wilson) is backed by a sterling cast.

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Cast & crew

Director: William A Seiter

Producer: Lester Cowan

Cast: Ava Gardner, Robert Walker, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden, Olga San Juan, Tom Conway, James Flavin, Sara Allgood full cast

Genre(s): Musicals

Duration: 82 mins


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