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title: 'The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Richard Fleischer'
released: '1955-10-01'
runtime_minutes: 109
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-girl-in-the-red-velvet-swing-1955'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048119/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)

1955 · 109 min · Drama, History, Crime, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is a 1955 American crime melodrama film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger. It is based on the real-life scandal of model and actress Evelyn Nesbit (Collins), surrounding the June 1906 killing of her former paramour and alleged rapist, the prominent architect Stanford White (Milland), by her husband, the rail and coal heir Harry Kendall Thaw (Granger).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Richard Fleischer](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-fleischer)
- **Screenplay:** [Walter Reisch](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-reisch), [Charles Brackett](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-brackett)
- **Producer:** [Charles Brackett](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-brackett)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Lionel Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-newman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Milton Krasner](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-krasner)

## Cast

- [Frank Mills](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-mills)
- [Stuart Holmes](https://cinepixo.com/people/stuart-holmes)
- [Farley Granger](https://cinepixo.com/people/farley-granger)
- [Raymond Bailey](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-bailey)
- [Robert F. Simon](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-f-simon)
- [Edmund Cobb](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-cobb)
- [Emile Meyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/emile-meyer)
- [Joan Collins](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-collins)
- [Edith Evanson](https://cinepixo.com/people/edith-evanson)
- [Ruta Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruta-lee)
- [Henry Kulky](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-kulky)
- [Fred Aldrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-aldrich)
- [Luther Adler](https://cinepixo.com/people/luther-adler)
- [Leslie Parrish](https://cinepixo.com/people/leslie-parrish)
- [Phillip Reed](https://cinepixo.com/people/phillip-reed)

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