The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
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| Directed by | Richard Fleischer |
| Written by | Walter Reisch Charles Brackett |
| Produced by | Charles Brackett |
| Starring | Ray Milland Joan Collins Farley Granger |
| Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
| Edited by | William Mace |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.7 million |
| Box office | $1.3 million (US) |
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is a 1955 American film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger. The CinemaScope film was released by Twentieth Century Fox, which had originally planned to put Marilyn Monroe in the title role, and then suspended her when she refused to do the film.
The film relates a fictionalized account of real life events, when model and actress Evelyn Nesbit became embroiled in the scandal surrounding the June 1906 murder of her paramour, architect Stanford White, by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw.