Womanizing Charlie is shot by an angry husband and falls in the sea. He arrives home after his memorial as a cute, amnesic woman. His old friend helps her/him.Womanizing Charlie is shot by an angry husband and falls in the sea. He arrives home after his memorial as a cute, amnesic woman. His old friend helps her/him.Womanizing Charlie is shot by an angry husband and falls in the sea. He arrives home after his memorial as a cute, amnesic woman. His old friend helps her/him.
Ellen Burstyn
- Franny Saltzmann
- (as Ellen McRae)
Roger C. Carmel
- Inspector Frank McGill
- (as Roger Carmel)
Anthony Eustrel
- Butler
- (as Antony Eustrel)
Roger Abbott
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Mary Alexander
- Receptionist
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaOriginally intended as a vehicle for Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Stuart Whitman.
- GoofsIn one shot when Laura Devon is racing over to Malibu in the vintage Rolls Royce, the film has been printed in reverse. The car's license number is shown backwards.
- Quotes
Sir Leopold Sartori: If I were not Hungarian by birth, I would be speechless.
- ConnectionsReferenced in What's My Line?: Debbie Reynolds (3) (1964)
Featured review
Switch before Switch
Perhaps best known nowadays as the film that inspired Blake Edwards to write and direct the amusing 'Switch' with Ellen Barkin, this earlier comedy features the same idea of a shameless philanderer reincarnated in the body of a woman. Clocking in at close to two hours, 'Goodbye Charlie' takes an incredibly long time to warm up with over 25 minutes elapsing before the comedy really kicks in since the philanderer (in the woman's body) has amnesia at first. Once the film gets into the swing of things though, it is a decent ride. Debbie Reynolds does well acting tough and manly, casually ogling other women and so on. It is not as dynamic a performance as Barkin in 'Switch' (who nailed the mannerisms of her male self) as we never actually see much of Charlie before he is killed, but Reynolds is still dynamite. There are also several fascinating moments as he/she gets more used to being a woman, even allowing him/herself to be seduced. Additionally, in a daring move, he/she even tries to seduce his/her best friend, played by Tony Curtis. Speaking of which, Curtis does well with a tricky role here. At times, it seems like he is also about to fall for his macho best friend in a lady's body. The experience is let down by a tacked-on cop-out ending that fails to capitalise on all this sexual tension, but the film pokes enough at gender identity issues to remain interesting.
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- Un amor del otro mundo
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- Budget
- $3,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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