Goodbye Charlie

Goodbye Charlie (1964)

They don't make girls like "Charlie" anymore -- they never did!

When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend as a base operation for enacting sweet revenge.

Date of release
1964-11-18
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (30)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Director
Vincente Minnelli

Casting

Interesting facts

Goodbye Charlie is a 1964 American fantasy comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, and Pat Boone. The CinemaScope film is about a callous womanizer who gets his just reward after a jealous husband kills him. It is based on the 1959 play of the same name by George Axelrod. The play also provided the basis for the 1991 film Switch, starring Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits.

Production

Darryl F. Zanuck offered the project to Billy Wilder after he returned to Fox, but Wilder turned it down, saying that "no self-respecting picture maker would ever want to work for your company". (Zanuck had just forced Joseph L. Mankiewicz to re-cut Cleopatra (1963)).

Playwright Harry Kurnitz was hired to write the script, and Tony Curtis was attached early. Vincente Minnelli was hired to direct his first movie after leaving MGM.

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