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One Touch of Venus Overview:

One Touch of Venus (1948) was a Comedy - Fantasy Film directed by William A. Seiter and Gregory La Cava (uncredited) and produced by William A. Seiter, John Beck and Lester Cowan.

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One Touch of Venus Quotes:

Molly Grant: [to Kerrigan] Hi, Gumshoe! Your handcuffs are showing!
Molly Grant: Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason - old French proverb.
Whitfield Savory: She reminds me of someone.
Molly Grant: I wish she reminded me of me.
Molly Grant: [to the statue] To Venus, the Goddess of Love! May she stay on the job and take care of all of us!
Molly Grant: [to Savory] I'll catch you a couple of flies, and you can pull their wings off!
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One Touch of Venus Facts
The original musical play opened on October 7, 1943, at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. The show moved to the 46th Street Theatre on January 26, 1944, (two days after closing at the Imperial) and continued to run through February 10, 1945. The total number of performances was 567. The cast included Mary Martin (in a role originally meant for Marlene Dietrich), John Boles, and Kenny Baker.
In January 1945, Agnes de Mille, who choreographed the 1943 Broadway musical, originally was announced to choreograph the Mary Pickford planned screen version.
MGM loaned Ava Gardner to Universal Studios to make this movie. Universal sent her to sculptor Joseph Nicolosi to make a proper life-size statue of the goddess. Nicolosi's first statue was entirely nude, and the studio told the sculptor to go back and make a more modest goddess. Universal sent members of the press a small souvenir knockoff of the second statue as a promotional item. According to author Lee Server in his biography "Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing", Robert Walker was so infatuated with his co-star that, when he found rival Howard Duff in her dressing room, he slapped Ava. She left the studio and filming ended.
When Universal assumed the screen rights in August 1947, the studio considered casting Deanna Durbin as Venus.
The original plans for filming this property in 1945 for United Artists included Mary Martin(from the original cast) with Frank Sinatra, Clifton Webb and Bert Lahr with Sam Coslow producing for Mary Pickford . Pickford felt that only Clifton Webb had any box office pull and she was hesitant to commit two million dollars of her own money to production. After much indecision she finally sold the rights to Lester Cowan at Universal. The Universal version appeared in 1948 with Ava Gardner.
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