One Touch of Venus

The read

It runs a compact 1h 19m.

Synopsis

While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. From Mount Olympus, Venus witnesses the event and decides to visit Rodney on Earth by magically inhabiting the statue. Hilarity ensues when she starts to fall in love with Rodney and competes with his girlfriend for his attentions. This television version of Kurt Weill's successful Broadway musical is much more faithful to the stage version than the 1948 Ava Gardner film, which changed the story considerably and cut most of the songs.

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Key crew

• George SchaeferDirector
• Kurt WeillOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Janet BlairVenus
• Russell NypeRodney Hatch
• George GaynesWhitelaw Savory
• Laurel ShelbyMolly Grant
• Mort MarshallTaxi Black
• Iggie WolfingtonStanley
• Val AveryBus Starter
• Len DoyleOfficer
• Arny FreemanAnatolian
• Peter GumenySecond Trucker
• Fred HillebrandMajor Domo
• Glenn KezerPolice Lieutenant

Themes