Sweet Charity (film)
1969 film by Bob Fosse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sweet Charity (full title: Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved) is a 1969 American musical comedy-drama film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse in his feature directorial debut, written by Peter Stone, and featuring music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields.
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| Directed by | Bob Fosse |
| Screenplay by | Peter Stone |
| Story by | Neil Simon |
| Based on | Sweet Charity by Neil Simon |
| Produced by | Robert Arthur |
| Starring | Shirley MacLaine |
| Cinematography | Robert Surtees |
| Edited by | Stuart Gilmore |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 149 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8 million – $20 million |
| Box office | $8 million[1] |
The film stars Shirley MacLaine and features John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, Ricardo Montalbán, Sammy Davis Jr., and Barbara Bouchet. It is based on the 1966 stage musical of the same name – also directed and choreographed by Fosse – which in turn is based on Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, and Tullio Pinelli's screenplay for Fellini's film Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria, 1957). Whereas Fellini's 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 has costumes by Edith Head.