Victor/Victoria

Introduction and comments following Victor/Victoria, 1982, with guest programmer Julie Andrews and TCM's Ben Mankiewicz.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Victor/Victoria, 1982.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Victor/Victoria, 1982.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Victor/Victoria, 1982.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Victor/Victoria, 1982.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Victor Victoria, 1982.

Robert Osborne introduces Victor/Victoria, 1982.

An early peak in the show-stealing performance by Lesley Ann Warren as Norma, the irksome girlfriend of gangster King Marchan (James Garner), who's troubled over being aroused by what he thinks was a male performer, in Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria, 1982.

From director Blake Edwards, Depression-era Paris showbiz solidarity, entertainer Toddy (Robert Preston) shares comforts with a new friend, impoverished English singer Victoria (Julie Andrews, Mrs. Edwards) who got soaked in the rain, early in Victor/Victoria, 1982.

Some would say the musical peak of the piece, in which the sublime Robert Preston (as Carroll "Toddy" Todd) performs "Gay Paree," by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse, in Paris ca. 1934, in Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria, 1982.

Julie Andrews (title character) wows a 1930's Paris nightclub crowd (with "Le Jazz Hot" by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse) and pulls a big reveal, James Garner, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras and Robert Preston among the admirers, in Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria, 1982.

An unemployed female singer poses as a female impersonator and becomes a star in Victor/Victoria (1982), directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner and Robert Preston.