I watched this when I was 7 years old and just watched the whole thing as an adult. Wow , it's a perfect 10. The lift seen was hilarious, the plot the rhythm , west side rooftop scene. I only remember fragments..what a delight after all that time to put it all together ..magic..Shirley you are wonderful a real gem. I wish for films like this again. If only.
This was the first movie that Bob Fosse directed. When it opened in the late 1960's it bombed. Universal spent a ton of money to bring this to the screen. Fosse's next film was a little movie called Cabaret. He won an Oscar for directing the film. He won out over Franics Ford Coppola for the Godfather.
When I seen the first ep. of Fosse/Verdon couldn’t believe when they said Sweet Charity flopped as a film!This has always been one of my favorite films since I first seen it on tv in the early seventies when I was a child.Still love it!Love all the songs!Would have liked to seen Gwen Verdon in the Broadway musical.
The Broadway show was way superior to the film. By making everything bigger and more hectic on the screen, Fosse lost sight of the original play, sadly. The play was a fable. The film was, apart from the dancing, a mess.
Thank you so much for uploading this clip. This is like my favourite part of the movie...I just love this scene and how joyous she is! I can feel the happiness spilling out of her soul.
For all you fans of vintage NYC: -Grand Army Plaza/ 5th Avenue & 59th Street -1923 (Original) Yankee Stadium -The rooftop parking lot of The Port Authority Bus Terminal -Lincoln Center -The corner of Nassau and Wall Street All those locations circa 1969 preserved on film! 📽😎🇵🇷🇺🇸🗽🦂
thanks you so much for posting this, one of my favorite movies, which i have not had the chance to see in such a long time... and, now that I have seen this scene again, i wonder how i could have forgotten how major this is! so many showstoppers from that movie alone. it is mind-blowing.
Don't forget Gwen Verdon, who originated the role on Broadway. Gwen taught Shirley all of her dance moves, even after being bypassed because she was not a big enough star.
Someone loves me! Someone loves me! Someone loves me, My heart is beating so fast. All kinds of music is pouring out of me, Somebody loves me at last! Now... I'm a brass band, I'm a harpsichord; I'm a clarinet! I'm the Philadelphia Orchestra, I'm the Modern Jazz Quartet! I'm the band from Macy's Big Parade. A wild Count Basie blast! I'm the bells from Saint Peter's in Rome I'm tissue paper on a comb... And all kinds of music Is pouring out of me 'cause... Somebody loves me...at last! Chorus: She's a brass band, She's a harpsichord, She's a clarinet! Charity: That's me! Chorus: She's the Philadelphia Orchestra, She's the Modern Jazz Quartet! She's a brass band, She's a harpsichord, She's a clarinet! She's the Philadelphia Orchestra, She's the Modern Jazz Quartet! She's the band from Macy's Big Parade A wild Count Basie blast! She's the bells from Saint Peter's in Rome She's tissue paper on a comb... Charity: Somebody loves me...at last!
So much effort and energy goes into trying to make this number a showstopper on film, yet it's not even a quarter as good as the stage version with Gwen Verdon (a TV performance of which you can find on here).
This movie cost $20 million to make, but made only $8 million at the box office. Fosse filmed an alternate ending where Oscar leaves his tiny apartment and goes for a walk in Central Park. He sees Charity on their bridge and thinks she is going to jump. Racing to rescue her, he trips and falls in the water. Charity jumps in after him, but can't swim so Oscar rescues her. Oscar realizes Charity is the only one for him, proposes again, and she accepts. Fosse thought the ending was too corny. It was not used, sticking to the original script.
and yet the happy ending makes more sense. The movie begins in the park with a spill in the water, and it makes more sense to end that way as if it came first circle. The sad ending was too awful, like having your heart clawed out, unlike Nights of Cabria (the italian movie this is based upon) whose ending was bittersweet. I wish the theatrical release kept with the happy ending, and luckily the DVD version has both so people can see which they like better. I will go with happy as it fits the entire movie better - in my opinion. Thanks for sharing!
I quite like the ending they used - with the flower children etc, but I think the alternative [you described so well] would have made for a more satisfying summing-up. Just my opinion.
@@MrMjp58 Someone could write an entire book with all the alternate endings to movies. Some movies have been so drastically re-written, to the point that they have little resemblance to the original version. You may enjoy seeing the video that explains in great detail how George Lucas' wife Marcia completely re-made the first Star Wars movie. Without her expert film editing that movie would not have been the smash hit it was. She won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for her work.
There was another version of this ending filmed (a third one). I was in a drum and bugle corps from Long Island and we were hired along with a second corps from NYC that we used to compete against. We filmed the ending overnight at the Lincoln center fountain. It went on for hours with us doing the same thing over and over. We were pretty exhausted by the time we were done. I remember a bunch of us going to see the movie and being disappointed as we had no idea that they weren’t using our version of the brass band segment.
@@drummerc1795 Ah man, thanks for remembering all that and writing about it. It sounds like typical moviemaking, all those takes and all the unused film footage. My friend David is a film editor in Studio City and he told me how that usually happens. Gave me a vivid account of the movie "Imagine" -- all the deleted scenes, etc. "Sweet Charity" seems like something from another world. And maybe that is because it was filmed such a long time ago. It's a good document of where people's heads were at back then.
One of the best musicals ever made. A proper story and outstanding music.
I watched this when I was 7 years old and just watched the whole thing as an adult. Wow , it's a perfect 10. The lift seen was hilarious, the plot the rhythm , west side rooftop scene. I only remember fragments..what a delight after all that time to put it all together ..magic..Shirley you are wonderful a real gem. I wish for films like this again. If only.
This was the first movie that Bob Fosse directed. When it opened in the late 1960's it bombed. Universal spent a ton of money to bring this to the screen. Fosse's next film was a little movie called Cabaret. He won an Oscar for directing the film.
He won out over Franics Ford Coppola for the Godfather.
When I seen the first ep. of Fosse/Verdon couldn’t believe when they said Sweet Charity flopped as a film!This has always been one of my favorite films since I first seen it on tv in the early seventies when I was a child.Still love it!Love all the songs!Would have liked to seen Gwen Verdon in the Broadway musical.
The Broadway show was way superior to the film. By making everything bigger and more hectic on the screen, Fosse lost sight of the original play, sadly. The play was a fable. The film was, apart from the dancing, a mess.
Thank you so much for uploading this clip. This is like my favourite part of the movie...I just love this scene and how joyous she is!
I can feel the happiness spilling out of her soul.
Shirley Maclain is a a true Hollywood star
How we can forget Shirley MacLaine .? Never
I just can't describe it how much i like this ! AMAZING !!!
Saw this movie as a child. Still ranks up there with the greatest, i.e. West Side Story and Cabaret.
God she's so darn adorable! Love, love this film, and this scene looks like so much fun :) thanks for posting
I got addicted to watching these clips that I went out and bought this movie. Now to find Damn Yankees and All That Jazz. . .
For all you fans of vintage NYC:
-Grand Army Plaza/ 5th Avenue & 59th Street
-1923 (Original) Yankee Stadium
-The rooftop parking lot of The Port Authority Bus Terminal
-Lincoln Center
-The corner of Nassau and Wall Street
All those locations circa 1969 preserved on film! 📽😎🇵🇷🇺🇸🗽🦂
何度見ても素敵なシーンです！
It doesn't come any better. Not a foot wrong! So full of LIFE!
I know nobody is willing to compare anything that Gwen Verdon has also done but I feel that Shirley MacLaine really nailed this.
thanks you so much for posting this, one of my favorite movies, which i have not had the chance to see in such a long time... and, now that I have seen this scene again, i wonder how i could have forgotten how major this is! so many showstoppers from that movie alone. it is mind-blowing.
The quick cuts from the Lincoln Center to FiDi are killin me - It's so camp and knowing NYC makes it even more wild to see these locations :P
It is really sad that Hollywood does not make any more big movies like this. They now focused on dramas and comedies.
That is what Wall Street looked like on Sunday mornings.
she is such cute and pretty!!!!! and she sings so wunderful!!!
Every bit as good as Cherise et al. A great star, in every sense of the word. In my opinion, under-recognised for her talents.
Don't forget Gwen Verdon, who originated the role on Broadway. Gwen taught Shirley all of her dance moves, even after being bypassed because she was not a big enough star.
Perfection.....
Someone loves me!
Someone loves me!
Someone loves me,
My heart is beating so fast.
All kinds of music is pouring out of me,
Somebody loves me at last!
Now...
I'm a brass band,
I'm a harpsichord;
I'm a clarinet!
I'm the Philadelphia Orchestra,
I'm the Modern Jazz Quartet!
I'm the band from Macy's Big Parade.
A wild Count Basie blast!
I'm the bells from Saint Peter's in Rome
I'm tissue paper on a comb...
And all kinds of music
Is pouring out of me 'cause...
Somebody loves me...at last!
Chorus:
She's a brass band,
She's a harpsichord,
She's a clarinet!
Charity:
That's me!
Chorus:
She's the Philadelphia Orchestra,
She's the Modern Jazz Quartet!
She's a brass band,
She's a harpsichord,
She's a clarinet!
She's the Philadelphia Orchestra,
She's the Modern Jazz Quartet!
She's the band from Macy's Big Parade
A wild Count Basie blast!
She's the bells from Saint Peter's in Rome
She's tissue paper on a comb...
Charity:
Somebody loves me...at last!
0:30 She's going to make it on her own...
Love the jazz segment at 2:56.
Thank you so much for posting this.
Sunday morning on wall Street.
@toemeraldcity I say awesome everytime I see a clip from this movie. I'm addicted to "Rich Man's Frug"
So much effort and energy goes into trying to make this number a showstopper on film, yet it's not even a quarter as good as the stage version with Gwen Verdon (a TV performance of which you can find on here).
Shirley s the sweetest darling
Shirley Maclaine has a high fever while shooting this part!
Красные сапожки, хорошая девочка!
We do still love you
This movie cost $20 million to make, but made only $8 million at the box office. Fosse filmed an alternate ending where Oscar leaves his tiny apartment and goes for a walk in Central Park. He sees Charity on their bridge and thinks she is going to jump. Racing to rescue her, he trips and falls in the water. Charity jumps in after him, but can't swim so Oscar rescues her. Oscar realizes Charity is the only one for him, proposes again, and she accepts. Fosse thought the ending was too corny. It was not used, sticking to the original script.
and yet the happy ending makes more sense. The movie begins in the park with a spill in the water, and it makes more sense to end that way as if it came first circle. The sad ending was too awful, like having your heart clawed out, unlike Nights of Cabria (the italian movie this is based upon) whose ending was bittersweet. I wish the theatrical release kept with the happy ending, and luckily the DVD version has both so people can see which they like better. I will go with happy as it fits the entire movie better - in my opinion. Thanks for sharing!
I quite like the ending they used - with the flower children etc, but I think the alternative [you described so well] would have made for a more satisfying summing-up.
Just my opinion.
@@MrMjp58 Someone could write an entire book with all the alternate endings to movies. Some movies have been so drastically re-written, to the point that they have little resemblance to the original version. You may enjoy seeing the video that explains in great detail how George Lucas' wife Marcia completely re-made the first Star Wars movie. Without her expert film editing that movie would not have been the smash hit it was. She won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for her work.
There was another version of this ending filmed (a third one). I was in a drum and bugle corps from Long Island and we were hired along with a second corps from NYC that we used to compete against. We filmed the ending overnight at the Lincoln center fountain. It went on for hours with us doing the same thing over and over. We were pretty exhausted by the time we were done. I remember a bunch of us going to see the movie and being disappointed as we had no idea that they weren’t using our version of the brass band segment.
@@drummerc1795 Ah man, thanks for remembering all that and writing about it. It sounds like typical moviemaking, all those takes and all the unused film footage. My friend David is a film editor in Studio City and he told me how that usually happens. Gave me a vivid account of the movie "Imagine" -- all the deleted scenes, etc. "Sweet Charity" seems like something from another world. And maybe that is because it was filmed such a long time ago. It's a good document of where people's heads were at back then.
Lovely!
Must have been filmed on a Sunday. Wall Street that quiet?
Yes indeed, go figure. I think Bob's first was his best@Geo789C
ive made this with girls run the wrold check it out let me know whta think
Omg , this has to be the most irritating song that never ends. such an overblown mess .
Nah this is a Masterpiece and the length is fine.
No it's not it's garbage