One Touch of Venus (1955)
Music · Comedy · Fantasy · Romance · TV Movie
Overview
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.
Cast
- Janet Blair as Venus
- Russell Nype as Rodney Hatch
- George Gaynes as Whitelaw Savory
- Laurel Shelby as Molly Grant
- Mort Marshall as Taxi Black
- Iggie Wolfington as Stanley
- Val Avery as Bus Starter
- Len Doyle as Officer
- Arny Freeman as Anatolian
- Peter Gumeny as Second Trucker