Sweet Charity
Summary:
Shirley MacLaine plays Charity Hope Valentine who, despite her job at a seedy dime-a-dance joint, is an incurable optimist. Charity never stops looking for true love and never seems to look for it in the right places. We first see her in the company of Charlie (Dante DiPaolo), a slimeball who steals her purse and pushes her into the Central Park pond. Next she stumbles into a one-n... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Shirley MacLaine - (Charity)
John McMartin - (Oscar)
Ricardo Montalban - (Vittorio)
Sammy Davis, Jr. - (Big Daddy)
Chita Rivera - (Nickie)
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Review:
Most of the Cy Coleman-Dorothy Fields songs in Sweet Charity remain intact: the best of these include Big Spender, If They Could See Me Now, There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This, and the rousing I'm a Brass Band, cinematized on an epic scale courtesy of choreographer/director Bob Fosse (who staged the original Broadwa... Continue >>
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