RECIPE INSPIRED BY JULIA CHILD. PHOTOGRAPH: ALEX LUCK. FOOD STYLING: SOPHIE AUSTEN-SMITH. STYLING: VICTORIA ELDRIDGE
THE PLOT DIGESTED
The movie is adapted from an early 1930s German film made in those louche Weimar days depicted in Cabaret. Impoverished singer Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews) cooks up a scheme with the equally broke cabaret star Toddy (Robert Preston) – Victoria will become Count Victor, a Polish drag queen new to the Paris scene. All goes swimmingly until King Marchand (James Garner) turns up to book acts for his Chicago nightclub, and gender becomes a bit of an issue.