Shirley MacLaine
Charity Hope Valentine
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Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon alongside John McMartin. It is based on the screenplay for the 1957 Italian film Nights of Cabiria. However, whereas Federico Fellini 's black ...
- Neil Simon
- 1966
Sweet Charity is a film adaptation of a stage musical based on Fellini's Nights of Cabiria. It stars Shirley MacLaine as a taxi dancer who longs for love and has bad luck with men.
Shirley MacLaine stars as Charity, a taxi dancer who hopes to find true love in New York City. The film features memorable songs, dances and a dark ending by director Bob Fosse.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Bob Fosse
- 1969-05-17
A musical film adaptation of Federico Fellini's "Nights of Cabiria", starring Shirley MacLaine as a dance hall hostess. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and other crew members who worked on this classic movie.
Sweet Charity 1969: The Aloof, The Heavyweight, The Big Finish (HQ) Bob Fosse. mikeboss. 2.18K subscribers. 25K. 1.4M views 7 years ago.
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Sweet Charity is a musical comedy about a taxi dancer who dreams of finding true love in 1960s New York City. Based on the film Nights of Cabiria, the show features songs by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields, and choreography by Bob Fosse.
Charity Hope Valentine works as a taxi dancer in a sleazy dance hall alongside her two best friends, Nickie and Helene. They have no illusions that what they are doing is renting out their bodies to any man who will pay. Charity wants more than anything to be loved.
