Sweet Charity is a 1969 musical movie directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and starring Shirley MacLaine. It is based on the 1966 stage musical of the same name, which Fosse had directed and choreographed also. The movie was notable for costumes by Edith Head and its dance sequences (notably "Rich Man's Frug"). The play and the film are based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria. However, where Fellini...
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Sweet Charity is a 1969 musical movie directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and starring Shirley MacLaine. It is based on the 1966 stage musical of the same name, which Fosse had directed and choreographed also. The movie was notable for costumes by Edith Head and its dance sequences (notably "Rich Man's Frug"). The play and the film are based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria. However, where Fellini's black-and-white film concerns the romantic ups-and-downs of an ever-hopeful prostitute, the musical makes the central character a dancer-for-hire at a Times Square dance-hall. The film's full American title is Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved.
Charity works as a taxi dancer along with her friends Nickie and Helene. She longs for love, but has bad luck with men being robbed and pushed off a bridge in Central Park by one boyfriend. She meets famous actor Vittorio Vidal and has a complicated, but pleasant evening...
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