Shirley MacLaine

John McMartin

Chita Rivera

Paula Kelly

Ricardo Montalban

Sammy Davis Jr.

Stubby Kaye

Barbara Bouchet

Suzanne Charny

Alan Hewitt

Dante DiPaolo

Bud Vest

Ben Vereen

Lee Roy Reams

Al Lanti

John Wheeler

Leon Bing

Leon Alton

Toni Basil

Larry Billman

Herman Boden

Donald Bradburn

Chelsea Brown

Ray Chabeau

Cheryl Christiansen

Linda Clifford

Bryan Da Silva

Marguerite DeLain

Kathryn Doby

Jimmy Fields

Lynn Fields

Ellen Halpin

Carlton Johnson

Kirk Kirksey

Richard Korthaze

Lance LeGault

Trish Mahoney

Ted Monson

April Nevins

Walter Painter

Louise Quick

Frank Radcliffe

Sandy Rovetta

Charlene Ryan

Dom Salinaro

Georgina Spelvin

Patrick Spohn

Jerry Trent

Tifni Twitchell

Renata Vaselle

Lorene Yarnell Jansson

Adele Yoshioka

Richard Angarola

Henry Beckman

Jack Berle

Charles Brewer

Lonnie Burr

Jeff Burton

Ceil Cabot

Dee Carroll

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Kathleen Cody

Bud Cort

John Craig

Alfred Dennis

George DeNormand

John Frayer

Dave Gold

Chuck Harrod

Sharon Harvey

Tom Hatten

Francine Henderson

Buddy Joe Hooker

Nolan Leary

Diki Lerner

Buddy Lewis

Marco López

Judith Lowry

Jerry Mann

Joseph Mell

Jackie Mitchell

Alma Platt

Maudie Prickett

Leoda Richards

Carroll Roebke

Federico Fellini

Cy Coleman

Ennio Flaiano

Robert Arthur

Peter Stone

Robert Surtees

Stuart Gilmore

Bob Fosse

Tullio Pinelli

Edith Head

Neil Simon

Dorothy Fields

Alexander Golitzen

Ronald Pierce

Ernest B. Wehmeyer

Douglas Green

Len Peterson

Waldon O. Watson

George C. Webb

William Russell

Jack D. Moore

Larry Germain

Sydney Guilaroff

Ralph Burns

Arnold Schwarzwald

Bud Westmore

Betty A. Griffin

Joseph Gershenson

Comedy

Music

Romance

Sweet Charity

Universal Pictures

United States of America

English

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"Charity" (Shirley MacLaine), "Nickie" (Chita Rivera) and "Helene" (Paula Kelly) are call-girls working in a grotty dance hall. "Charity" is an honest, maybe too honest, gal, but after years going round in circles she needs a decent man in her life. That might just happen when she meets "Oscar" (John McMartin) but he doesn't know what she really does to make a living. It isn't quite in a bank. Should she tell him and risk him walking away? The story itself here is no great shakes, but the performances are really entertaining. MacLaine, Ricardo Montalban as the legendary actor "Vittorio" and the rhythmic Sammy Davis Jr. as "Big Daddy" all contribute to a tight ensemble delivering some of the best from musical theatre to the big screen. "Big Spender"; "If My Friends Could See Me Now"; "...Something Better Than This"; "The Rhythm of Life" - all cleverly written and scored by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields and sung by the folks we are watching. Now the production isn't the best. The editing is really quite bitty and director Bob Fosse still can't quite remember that cinema can flow in a continuous fashion that theatre cannot. It's not Neil Simon's best script adaptation either, indeed "Nights of Cabiria" might blush at the rather staccato nature of this tribute. It looks great and there's quite some chemistry between MacLaine and the suave and debonaire Montalban and by mid-way through, you just want poor old "Charity" to find her happiness. It's hard to see how it could be better and is well worth watch if you want to see charisma on screen in spades.

AFI Movie Club: Shirley MacLaine on Bob Fosse and Sweet Charity

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Sweet Charity

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