VICTOR/VICTORIA (1982) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Blake Edwards
Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston,
Leslie Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies
A musical gender-blender set in 1934, with Julie Andrews as a starving singer who becomes the toast of Paris by pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. James Garner plays a Chicago gangster who falls for him/her while trying to make sense of the ambiguity. Robert Preston plays a gay nightclub performer and Julie's partner/mentor/pal. Andrews makes a cute girl-boy, and the gay humor holds up better than you might expect. One of Blake Edwards' best movies.
