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5.9/10   506 votes
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Director:
Writers:
George Axelrod (play)
Harry Kurnitz (screenplay)
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Release Date:
18 November 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
They don't make girls like "Charlie" anymore -- they never did!
Plot:
Shot by a jealous husband, Charley falls out a porthole and is lost at sea only to find himself returned as an attractive blond woman... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Off-beat, Silly, Charming and Down-right Twisted more (15 total)

Cast

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Tony Curtis ... George Wellington Tracy

Debbie Reynolds ... The Reincarnated Charlie Sorel / Virginia Mason

Pat Boone ... Bruce Minton, the 3rd
Joanna Barnes ... Janie Highland

Ellen Burstyn ... Franny Salzman (as Ellen McRae)
Laura Devon ... Rusty Sartori

Martin Gabel ... Morton Craft
Roger C. Carmel ... Inspector (as Roger Carmel)
Harry Madden ... Charles Sorel
Myrna Hansen ... Starlet
Michael Romanoff ... Patron
Michael Jackson ... Himself
Anthony Eustrel ... Butler (as Antony Eustrel)
Donna Michelle ... Girl doing the twist on yacht

Walter Matthau ... Sir Leopold Sartori
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Additional Details

Runtime:
116 min
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Language:
Color:
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (certificate #20731)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The title role was offered to Marilyn Monroe shortly before her death. She rejected it judging the role as "not feminine at all". more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Vincente Minnelli is credited as "Vincente Minelli" more
Quotes:
Sir Leopold Sartori: If I were not Hungarian, I would be speechless. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "What's My Line?: (1964-03-01)" (1964) more
Soundtrack:
Seven at once more

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Off-beat, Silly, Charming and Down-right Twisted, 16 January 2001
6/10
Author: William C. Uchtman (aesgaard41@hotmail.com) from Hendersonville, TN

I saw this movie for the first time over twenty years ago but could never remember the title. I saw it again on AMC and recognized it immediately, but my memories of it have strayed quite a bit from what I thought it was. In fact, this movie takes an amusing idea, a man in a woman's body, throws in some funny lines, but misses the point and goes no where. Tony Curtis plays a very funny straight man to Debbie Reynolds, and while she may have been attractive for the time, the outdated values and generation gap haven't exactly endeared this movie to a whole new generation. While still more enjoyable than it's recent re-make, "Switch" with Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits, the movie almost immediately drags after the opening sequences and sets up a premise that really goes nowhere. Pat Boone's role is seemingly tagged on as is Roger C. Carmel's, but Walter Matthau is nearly unrecognizable as a worldly skirt-chaser giving Reynolds something to run from. While I can't in good conscience give this a ten, the movie is worth while a look as a seven.

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