#bob + charity

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Get Me Bodied by Beyoncé (2007)

Sweet Charity (1969)

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SWEET CHARITY (1969) dir. Bob Fosse

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“The Aloof”, Sweet Charity (1969)

[worldwarxp]

Bob Marley Getting Ready For The Wonder Dream Concert!

Bob Marley and The Wailers preforming a soundcheck a couple hours before the Wonder Dream concert would begin. The event was a benefit concert to raise funds to help blind people. (Jamaican Institute For The Blind). They would end up receiving 23,000 dollars.

Photographer: Kwame Brathwaite

Location Of Photograph: National Stadium, Kingston, Jamaica. 10/04/1975

[madeline-kahn]

"What a step up, holy cow! They'd never believe it if my friends could see me now."

Sweet Charity (1969) dir. Bob Fosse

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Sweet Charity Bob Fosse. 1969

Bridge Gapstow Bridge, Central Park, New York, NY 10019, USA See in map

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Bonus: also in this location

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SWEET CHARITY (1969) Polish poster. Artwork by Wiktor Gorka 

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sweet charity (1969) dir. bob fosse

[tomshivbaby]

so obsessed with that rich people dancing scene from sweet charity. specially the guys they move like. rpg monsters idk

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Sweet Charity, Bob Fosse (1969)

[catboymoses]

Charity Hope Valentine is the character ever. She's a ray of sunshine every moment of her life. She is dripping with pond water. She made her first ever bank account today. Her go to comeback is 'up yours!' She spent the night in her favorite film star's closet with a cold beer. She's sex work adjacent and asexual. The love of her life is tax accountant years old and has 500 houseplants, they met in an elevator and he took her to a cult meeting for their first date. She really just wants to be loved. She's a brass band. She's a harpsichord. She's a clarinet. She's everything

[wellntruly]

oh man, old movies!! my dad was a huge movie guy so I grew up watching that. My movie knowledge is basically 30s-50s and then abrupt jump to the 2000s lol It's instilled in me an adoration for bombastic musicals and over the top Hijinks. I absolutely adore the Marx Brothers and Basil Rathbone is, in my opinion, DRASTICALLY underappreciated. He was a fantastic Sherlock, but he was also such an amazing chameleon in so many vastly different roles! What are your favs with them, or any advice on what I should watch based on those loves.

Hi buddy!!!! WHAT a fun brief, have I got recs for you:

First up for sure for sure, have you ever seen Love Me Tonight (1932), by Rouben Mamoulian? One of the most insane things I have ever seen, COMMMMPLIMENTARY. It’s a pre-Code musical comedy with killer songs that are themselves having a lot of meta fun with the concept “musical comedy”—it’s wild! So funny, so strange, Myrna Loy is there being hilariously horny, just an exquisitely bonkers time.

Where: multiple copies just floating free on YouTube

And wow this is where I discover that I am still vanishingly low on Basil Rathbone movies! But you’ve made me think of mysteries, and gosh I really really loved The Lady Vanishes (1939). One of the lesser seen Hitchcocks, according to Letterboxd it’s all the way back in the 15th most popular, and that’s so crazy because it rules. Its mix of comedy, drama, twists, and an increasingly imperative political angle actually reminded me most of all of Bong Joon Ho. Two very charming lead performances too, which I bet you'll like!

Where: Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Prime

And since you mentioned that you had a sort of abrupt halt at the end of the 50s, if you want another wild musical, I cannot get enough of showing people Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity (1969). It totally flopped at the time because half the audiences were over studio musicals, and the other half that did still love a musical were baffled by this one’s edge. But today, it feels like such a treasure. Unbelievably funny, mesmerizing dance sequences, inventive editing, full of colors and life and yet again, this fascinating dark undercurrent, sometimes overcurrent.

Where: this one can be harder to find, but you can always try your local library, I have a lot of pals who use theirs to find all sorts of old movies

Signed, Your Classic Films Thesaurus

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Sweet Charity (Bob Fosse), 1969

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Sweet Charity Bob Fosse. 1969

Museum MoMA, 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA See in map

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Bonus: also in this location