Sweet charity movie

1968

Vegas chorus girls, n.d.

Anne Hathaway and James Franco are the latest in an 82 year tradition of hosting the Academy Awards. Here's every notable and not-so-notable Oscars emcee to precede them. What do Donald Duck and David Letterman have in common? They've only hosted the Oscars once. (Many of those on this list have co-hosted with others, hence the overlap of certain years.)

Sweet Charity - Bob Fosse

"Big Spender" from Bob Fosse's SWEET CHARITY

A Vintage Nerd, Sweet Charity 1969, Classic Movie Blog, Shirley MacLaine, Ricardo Montalbán, Chita Rivera

From left, American actresses Chita Rivera , Shirley MacLaine , and Paula Kelly dance in a scene from the film 'Sweet Charity' at Universal Studios, Los Angeles, 1969.

When people think of the work of Bob Fosse, Broadway’s foremost choreographer-director in the 1960s and 1970s, what they are likely to see in their minds is a group of dancers, in bowler hats and white gloves, standing in a stiff configuration and bobbing up and down in a cool sort of way. The dancers may rotate their wrists or splay their fingers, but they don’t stick out too many parts of themselves at one time, and they generally don’t travel around the stage much. They are often dressed…