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* LoveGoddess: It's Venus's job.
* MagicalGirlfriend: Venus to Rodney.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The title song says that if you have "a touch of the damsel" and "a touch of the goddess", life is a "''goddess damsel'' cinch."

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* SassySecretary: Molly Grant, Savory's secretary, always has a one-liner ready and gets the racy title song (see "Getting Crap Past the Radar" above).

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* SassySecretary: Molly Grant, Savory's secretary, always has a one-liner ready and gets the racy title song (see "Getting Crap Past the Radar" above).song.
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It was made into a 1948 movie starring Creator/AvaGardner, which retained few of the show's songs and even less of its dialogue. That movie, in turn, was remade in the 1980's as the Kim Cattrall vehicle ''Film/{{Mannequin}}''.

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It was made into [[Film/OneTouchOfVenus a 1948 movie movie]] starring Creator/AvaGardner, which retained few of the show's songs and even less of its dialogue. That movie, in turn, was remade in the 1980's as the Kim Cattrall vehicle ''Film/{{Mannequin}}''.
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%%* AngryMobSong: "Catch Hatch"



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%%* CatchTheConscience

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%%* CatchTheConscience* CatchTheConscience: The song [[MurderBallad "Dr. Crippen"]] is intended to pressure Rodney into confessing to the murder of his fiancee. Since he didn't murder his fiancee, no confession results.



%%* DeusExScuseMe



%%* {{Leitmotif}}: Venus's theme

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%%* * {{Leitmotif}}: Venus's themetheme recurs several times.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Fabulously rich art patron Whitelaw Savory is more than a bit like fabulously rich art patron Nelson Rockefeller, trustee and sometime president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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* DarkReprise: Rodney's embittered reprise of "How Much I Love You"

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* DarkReprise: Rodney's embittered reprise of "How Much I Love You"You".



%%* DisposableFiance: Gloria Kramer
%%* DreamBallet: "Venus in Ozone Heights"

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%%* * DisposableFiance: Venus makes short work of Gloria Kramer
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Kramer, Rodney Hatch's betrothed.
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DreamBallet: "Venus in Ozone Heights"Heights" imagines Venus married to Rodney in StepfordSuburbia.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The title song says that if you have "a touch of the damsel" and "a touch of the goddess", life is a "''goddess damsel'' cinch."



%%* MagicalGirlfriend
%%* MurderBallad: "Dr. Crippen"
%%* TheOneThatGotAway
%%* PleasePutSomeClothesOn
%%* SassySecretary: Molly Grant

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* MagicalGirlfriend: Venus to Rodney.
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MurderBallad: "Dr. Crippen"
%%* TheOneThatGotAway
%%* PleasePutSomeClothesOn
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Crippen", the Act I finale, tells the story of the real-life murderer.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Savory is obsessed with the Venus statue because it reminds him of a lost love.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: The prudish Rodney Hatch is appalled by Venus's initial not-extensively-dressed appearance.
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SassySecretary: Molly GrantGrant, Savory's secretary, always has a one-liner ready and gets the racy title song (see "Getting Crap Past the Radar" above).


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* StepfordSuburbia: Rodney Hatch can't wait to move into one of these, singing a whole song ("Waiting for a Wooden Wedding") about how delightfully boring and predictable it will be. This becomes the tipping point for Venus, our protagonist, who realizes during the song just how awful life with Rodney might be.
** (Props to the creative team, by the way, for using this trope so ''early''. The show opened in 1943, just as suburbia was starting to become a recognizable concept.)
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It was made into a 1948 movie starring Ava Gardner, which retained few of the show's songs and even less of its dialogue. That movie, in turn, was remade in the 1980's as the Kim Cattrall vehicle ''Film/{{Mannequin}}''.

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It was made into a 1948 movie starring Ava Gardner, Creator/AvaGardner, which retained few of the show's songs and even less of its dialogue. That movie, in turn, was remade in the 1980's as the Kim Cattrall vehicle ''Film/{{Mannequin}}''.



%%* LivingStatue
%%* LoveGoddess

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%%* LivingStatue
%%* LoveGoddess
* LivingStatue: A statue of Venus comes to life.
* LoveGoddess: It's Venus's job.

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* AngryMobSong: "Catch Hatch"
* CatchTheConscience

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* %%* AngryMobSong: "Catch Hatch"
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* DeusExScuseMe
* [[DisposableFiance Disposable Fiancée]]: Gloria Kramer
* DreamBallet: "Venus in Ozone Heights"
* {{Leitmotif}}: Venus's theme
* LivingStatue
* LoveGoddess
* MagicalGirlfriend
* MurderBallad: "Dr. Crippen"
* TheOneThatGotAway
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn
* SassySecretary: Molly Grant
* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable

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* %%* DeusExScuseMe
* [[DisposableFiance Disposable Fiancée]]: %%* DisposableFiance: Gloria Kramer
* %%* DreamBallet: "Venus in Ozone Heights"
* %%* {{Leitmotif}}: Venus's theme
* %%* LivingStatue
* %%* LoveGoddess
* %%* MagicalGirlfriend
* %%* MurderBallad: "Dr. Crippen"
* %%* TheOneThatGotAway
* %%* PleasePutSomeClothesOn
* %%* SassySecretary: Molly Grant
* %%* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable
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''One Touch of Venus'' is a 1943 musical comedy with music by Creator/KurtWeill, lyrics by Creator/OgdenNash and book by Creator/SJPerelman and Ogden Nash.

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''One Touch of Venus'' is a 1943 musical comedy with music by Creator/KurtWeill, Music/KurtWeill, lyrics by Creator/OgdenNash and book by Creator/SJPerelman and Ogden Nash.
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''One Touch of Venus'' is a 1943 musical comedy with music by KurtWeill, lyrics by Creator/OgdenNash and book by Creator/SJPerelman and Ogden Nash.

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''One Touch of Venus'' is a 1943 musical comedy with music by KurtWeill, Creator/KurtWeill, lyrics by Creator/OgdenNash and book by Creator/SJPerelman and Ogden Nash.
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''One Touch of Venus'' is a 1943 musical comedy with music by KurtWeill, lyrics by Creator/OgdenNash and book by SJPerelman and Ogden Nash.

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''One Touch of Venus'' is a 1943 musical comedy with music by KurtWeill, lyrics by Creator/OgdenNash and book by SJPerelman Creator/SJPerelman and Ogden Nash.
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It was made into a 1948 movie starring Ava Gardner, which retained few of the show's songs and even less of its dialogue. That movie, in turn, was remade in the 1980's as the Kim Cattrall vehicle ''Mannequin''.

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It was made into a 1948 movie starring Ava Gardner, which retained few of the show's songs and even less of its dialogue. That movie, in turn, was remade in the 1980's as the Kim Cattrall vehicle ''Mannequin''.''Film/{{Mannequin}}''.
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''One Touch of Venus'' is a 1943 musical comedy with music by KurtWeill, lyrics by Creator/OgdenNash and book by SJPerelman and Ogden Nash.

As the play opens, Whitelaw Savory, at his Foundation of Modern Art, has been stubbornly carrying on for nine years his crusade to bring TrueArt to the ignorant masses. His latest acquisition, a three-thousand-year-old statue of the goddess Venus imported from Anatolia, was made not on aesthetic principle but for personal reasons. A barber named Rodney Hatch decides while waiting to shave Savory to try something funny with his engagement ring and finds out to his surprise that this Venus is more than a statue.

It was made into a 1948 movie starring Ava Gardner, which retained few of the show's songs and even less of its dialogue. That movie, in turn, was remade in the 1980's as the Kim Cattrall vehicle ''Mannequin''.
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!!Tropes used in the show:
* AngryMobSong: "Catch Hatch"
* CatchTheConscience
* DarkReprise: Rodney's embittered reprise of "How Much I Love You"
* DeusExScuseMe
* [[DisposableFiance Disposable Fiancée]]: Gloria Kramer
* DreamBallet: "Venus in Ozone Heights"
* {{Leitmotif}}: Venus's theme
* LivingStatue
* LoveGoddess
* MagicalGirlfriend
* MurderBallad: "Dr. Crippen"
* TheOneThatGotAway
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn
* SassySecretary: Molly Grant
* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable
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