Victor/Victoria

Set in Paris in the 1930s, the film follows Victoria Grant, a classically trained soprano who can no longer find work and is living in poverty despite the city's glamour. A chance meeting with Carroll "Toddy" Todd, an older cabaret performer, produces a scheme: she will pass herself off as a man named Count Victor Grazinsky who performs on stage as a female impersonator. The act becomes a sensation in the Paris clubs, but the arrangement brings complications, particularly when King Marchand, an American show-business figure with Chicago connections, becomes fascinated by Victor and cannot reconcile his attraction with what he believes about the performer's identity.

Blake Edwards directed and wrote the screenplay, and produced with Tony Adams. It is the seventeenth of the twenty-seven films he directed, coming between S.O.B. and Trail of the Pink Panther. Julie Andrews plays Victoria and her invented male counterpart, with James Garner as King Marchand, Robert Preston as Toddy and Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras and John Rhys-Davies among the credited cast of forty-nine. The film is a remake of the 1933 German production Viktor und Viktoria.

Made for fifteen million dollars, it returned twenty-eight million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.6 from about twenty-six thousand votes, and on TMDB 7.3 from roughly four hundred and sixty-five, while its critics' rating stands at 8.1 from thirty-six reviews, the strongest of the three measures.