Torch Song (1953)
- Starring:
- Joan Crawford, Michael Wilding, Sr., (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles Walters
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Joan Crawford's first Technicolor feature has come to be known as a textbook example of "high camp." Crawford stars as musical comedy luminary Jenny Stewart, who has been hardened by the worst life has to offer. Romance enters her life in the form of her new piano accompanist, blinded war-veteran Tye Graham (Michael Wilding). The fact that Graham refuses to kowtow to the temperamental Jenny's demands, coupled with the adversarial behavior of Graham's seeing-eye dog, makes the pianist all the more attractive to the lonely songstress. Torch Song is a favorite of bad-movie buffs and female impersonators the world over: Highlights include Crawford's blackface musical number, and the now-classic scene in which she simulates blindness to better understand the taciturn Graham. Director Charles Walters, a former choreographer, appears as Crawford's two-left-feet dancing partner in the opening scenes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Joan Crawford - Jenny Stewart
- Gig Young - Cliff Willard
- Henry Morgan - Joe Denner
- James Todd - Philip Norton
- Paul Guilfoyle - Monty Rolfe
- Peter Chong - Peter
- Chris Warfield - Chuck Peters
- Mimi Gibson - Susie
- Peggy King - Cora
- Charles Walters - Ralph Ellis
- John Rosser - Chauffeur
- Michael Wilding, Sr. - Tye Graham
- Marjorie Rambeau - Mrs. Stewart
- Dorothy Patrick - Martha
- Eugene Loring - Gene the Dance Director
- Benny Rubin - Charlie Maylor
- Maide Norman - Anne
- Rudy Render - Party Singer
- Nancy Gates - Celia Stewart
- Reginald Simpson - Cab Driver
- Adolph Deutsch - Conductor
- Mitchell Lewis - Bill the Doorman
- Director(s):
- Charles Walters
- Writer(s):
- John Michael Hayes, Jan Lustig
- Producer(s):
- Sidney Franklin, Charles Schnee, Henry Berman
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