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| The script was based on the 1933 German movie Viktor und Viktoria by Reinhard Schenzel and Hans Hoenburg, it then became the basis of a successful Broadway musical also starring Julie Andrews and directed by Blake Edwards. |
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| Blake wrote the movie with Julie Andrews and Peter Sellers in mind, but Sellers had died, so Robert Preston replaced him as the gay impresario Toddy. |
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| Both Julie Andrews and Lesley Ann Warren (Norma Cassidy) starred as Cinderella in TV productions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. |
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| Julie Andrews really is terrified of cockroaches. |
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| The cockroaches were in a kind of deep freeze coma. They were placed where necessary for the scene and heated with a hair dryer. The crew could only hope that they went in the right direction and no one knew quite where they went after filming of the scene was completed. |
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| The movie was made at Pinewood Studios, outside London, on nine sound stages. |
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| The young man who says Victor is "divine" at rehearsal is Blake Edwards' son and Julie Andrews' stepson, Geoffrey Edwards. |
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| Robert Preston did the final musical number in one take. |
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| Director Blake Edwards admitted in an interview that he "chickened out", and added the scene in which King Marchand (James Garner) discovers that Victoria (Julie Andrews) is indeed a woman. Originally he was to fall in love with Victoria before he was sure about her gender, hence his line "I don't care if you are a man" before he kisses her. |
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| Victor/Victoria was a very deserved success on its opening in April 1982 and garnered a total of seven Academy Award nominations. |
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At the time the movie was coming out, Julie was named Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Club. In accepting the award, a trophy in the form of a pot, she asked, "Is it all right if I throw up in it?"
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