Sweet Charity (film)
Sweet Charity, full title of which is Sweet Charity The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved, is a 1969 American musical film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and with music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields.
Charity Hope Valentine Shirley MacLaine works as a taxi dancer along with her friends, Nickie Chita Rivera and Helene Paula Kelly. She longs for love, but has bad luck with men, being robbed and pushed off a bridge in Central Park by one exboyfriend. She has another humiliating encounter with Vittorio Vitale Ricardo Montalban, a movie star.After failing to find a new job through an employment agency, Charity meets shy Oscar Lindquist John McMartin in a stuck elevator. They strike up a relationship, but Charity does not reveal what she does for a living. When she finally does tell Oscar, he initially seems to accept it, but finally tells Charity that he cannot marry her. ........
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