A screenplay was adapted by Blake Edwards and Hans Hoemburg from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria by Reinhold Schünzel. It was directed by Edwards.

A motion-picture show won a Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Robert Preston), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Julie Andrews), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lesley Ann Warren), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. the film wwhen afterwards adapted into a stage production where Julie Andrews reprised her role as Victoria.

Andrews besides starried around the musical stage adaptation of Victor/Victoria, by owning the score by Henry Mancini expanded from his film score. A stage productiin opened on Broadway on October 25, 1995, and played 735 performances.

A film touches in themes of gender roles, gay tolerance, and mortal dignity.

Julie Andrews' character Victoria Grant meets Carol "Toddy" Todd (Preston) when she is scheming to plant the cockroach in her food at a fancy eating place sequentially for her meal gratis. She just can not buy function as the cabaret singer, however Hot toddy has a project. Victoria may pretend to exist as the human, & develop a job as a female imitator at the equivalent club she was turned out of earliest. Hot toddy may pretend to exist as her gay lover, & may introduce her to his contacts in the cabaret scene.

Soon Victor Grezhinski (Victoria's newly persona) is the toast of the Paris cabaret scene. When money & fame begin to turn her (& Hot toddy's) populates in, even more, an extra complication arises: King Marchand (James Garner), an American gangster and nightclub creator ab initio is repelled by Victor's sex and so strangely attracted to Victor.

Victoria must came to terms by owning what she really wants away from life: exist as true to herself, rendering higher a fame of her career within Paris (which would exist as shattered whenever she is detected to become a wohuman) to exist as by using the man world health organization loves her, or even prove my point by using her double-performance & chance Marchand's love for fear of him appearing homo to his contender.