The Velvet Touch

1948

1h 40m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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Drama

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After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Directors

Jack Gage

Writers

Leo Rosten(writer by)

Annabel Ross(original story by)

William Mercer(original story by)

Stars

Rosalind Russell

Leo Genn

Claire Trevor

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Top cast

Valerie Stanton

Michael Morrell

Marian Webster

Capt. Danbury

Gordon Dunning

Ernie Boyle

Peter Gunther

Jeff Trent

Paul Banton

Susan Crane

Nancy

Actor 'Judge Brack'

Herbie

Pansy Dupont

Mr. Couch

Howard Forman (as William L. Erwin)

Martha Hyer

Helen Adams

Michael St. Angel

Jimmy Ross (as Steven Flagg)

Directors

Jack Gage

Writers

Leo Rosten(writer by)

Annabel Ross(original story by)

William Mercer(original story by)

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This is a very glamorous, but rather cyclical, drama about a theatrical impresario "Dunning" (Leon Ames) who discovers "Valerie Stanton" (Rosalind Russell) and turns her into a star of latter day stage equivalents of soap operas. Of course, there is their simultaneous romance that has long since lost it's sparkle and is now just the source of constant rancour between the two who now only need the other for financial reasons. Enter Walter Kingsford who offers her a much meatier part and Leo Genn as a British architect with whom she has actually fallen in love and the story builds to a rather predictable, messy, development. Up to this point, the on-off, up-down relationship/rivalry melodrama rather drags it all down a bit - despite Russell looking like the proverbial million dollars; and it is really only now with the arrival of Sydney Greenstreet as the deceptively charming investigating detective "Capt. Danbury" that the story becomes a little more interesting - he is a theatre buff, but can he see through the façade?

Geronimo196709 Jul, 2022