SWEET CHARITY


 "SWEET CHARITY" --- (1969) --- 

SYNOPSIS: "Charity Hope Valentine always tries to look on the bright side of life, despite working in a rundown dance hall and contending with a seemingly endless run of bad dates. Determined to find love, Charity falls for suave actor Vittorio Vidal, but their romance is all too brief. However, when Charity finds herself stuck in an elevator with the reserved Oscar Lindquist, it turns out that she may have finally met her match."
STARRING: Shirley MacLaine, Ricardo Montalban, John McMartin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Neil Simon, Barbara Bouchet, Stubby Kaye and Dante DiPaolo.
SCREENPLAY: Peter Stone; Story by Neil Simon; Based on "Sweet Charity" by Neil Simon and "Nights of Cabiria" by Frederico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tulio Pinelli and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
DIRECTOR: Bob Fosse
AWARDS AND OTHER FACTS:
It was nominated for three (3) Academy Awards but won none.
It was nominated for three (3) additional awards, by various entities, and won none of them.
"Sweet Charity" and its making are briefly alluded to under a different title in Fosse's autobiographical musical film "All That Jazz" (1979).
"Sweet Charity", particularly the "Rich Man's Frug" musical number, has served as a visual reference for dance sequences in contemporary popular culture. Several music videos have paid tribute to that number.

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