The Velvet Touch
In The Velvet Touch, a Broadway star accidentally kills the impresario who made her a star after arguing with him about whether she should abandon frothy comedy (and him) and pursue a noble career in serious theatre. That’s the opening scene dealt with. The rest of the film concerns itself with the actress’s fate. Will she get caught, confess the crime or get away with it? Whether it indicates her character’s superior opinion of herself or masks her own incipient double chin, Rosalind Russell plays Valerie as a head-held-high kind of gal, an actress who saw herself starring in an upcoming production of Hedda Gabler. But impresario Gordon Dunning (Leon Ames) had other … Read more