Goodbye Charlie

Goodbye Charlie
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVincente Minnelli
Screenplay byHarry Kurnitz
Based onGoodbye Charlie
1959 play
by George Axelrod
Produced byDavid Weisbart
StarringTony Curtis
Debbie Reynolds
Pat Boone
CinematographyMilton R. Krasner
Edited byJohn W. Holmes
Music byAndré Previn
Color processColor by DeLuxe
Production
company
Venice Productions
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • November 18, 1964 (1964-11-18)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.5 million[1]
Box office$3,700,000 (US/ Canada rentals)[2]

Goodbye Charlie is a 1964 American 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 adapted from George Axelrod's 1959 play Goodbye, Charlie. The play also provided the basis for the 1991 film Switch, with Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits.

  1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p254
  2. ^ This figure consists of anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America. See "Big Rental Pictures of 1965", Variety, 5 January 1966 p. 6 and Solomon p. 229. Please note these figures are rentals accruing to distributors not total gross.