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One Touch of Venus

7.3 79 mins Music   Comedy   Fantasy   Romance   TV Movie   1955
NBC  
Director(s): George Schaefer

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.

Casts of One Touch of Venus

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

Fred Hillebrand

as Major Domo

Glenn Kezer

as Police Lieutenant

William LeMassena

as Zuvetli

Louis Nye

as Dr. Rook

Adnia Rice

as Mrs. Kramer

Georgia Simmons

as Mrs. Moats

Mildred Trares

as Gloria Kramer

Dick Wilson

as First Trucker

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