It's nice to see Julie Andrews on top form here as Victoria, leading lady of the Bath Light Opera, adrift in 1934 Paris and almost ready to go to jail for a square meal when a chance meeting with Toddy (Robert Preston), a gay entertainer also down on his luck, changes her life. Impressed by the way she dresses in his boyfriend's clothes, Toddy suggests the ultimate in entertainment - a woman as a man as a woman, with only two people in the know. Naturally Victoria, being Julie, is soon the toast of Paree, well gay Paree at any rate - although 'straight' American entrepreneur James Garner fancies her/him too, for reasons that briefly baffle him. This being musical comedy, however illegitimate, things work themselves out, and Julie gets the chance to sing some well scored (by Henry Mancini) and choreographed (by Paddy Stone) numbers, especially Le Jazz Hot. It all takes too long, though, and Preston is so good as Toddy - apart from a disastrous finale - that you would like to see the relationship between him and Victoria further developed. Their warm kind of humour is too often ditched by director Blake Edwards in favour of his more familiar Pink Panther capers. Later a Broadway show.

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