"ends an affair with a married woman, Siddie (Millicent Martin), just as he gets his submissive single girlfriend, Gilda (Julia Foster), pregnant. Although Alfie refuses to marry Gilda and cheats on her constantly, Gilda decides to have the child, a boy named Malcolm, and keep him rather than give him up for adoption. Over time, Alfie becomes attached to his son, but his unwillingness to commit to Gilda causes her to break up with him and instead marry Humphrey (Graham Stark), a kindly bus conductor who loves her and is willing to accept Malcolm as his own son. She also"
"Sid and Nancy Sid and Nancy (also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills) is a 1986 British biopic directed by Alex Cox and co-written with Abbe Wool. The film portrays the life of Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman), bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols, and his relationship with girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). The film also features supporting performances from David Hayman, Xander Berkeley, and Courtney Love. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986, and was released theatrically in the United States that fall. Despite failing to recoup its production budget at the"
"was later released on 22 August 2017. Sid and Nancy Sid and Nancy (also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills) is a 1986 British biopic directed by Alex Cox and co-written with Abbe Wool. The film portrays the life of Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman), bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols, and his relationship with girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). The film also features supporting performances from David Hayman, Xander Berkeley, and Courtney Love. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986, and was released theatrically in the United States that fall. Despite failing"
"Alfie (1966 film) Alfie is a 1966 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Michael Caine. It is an adaptation by Bill Naughton of his own novel and play of the same name. The film was released by Paramount Pictures. ""Alfie"" tells the story of a young womanising man who leads a self-centred life, purely for his own enjoyment, until events force him to question his uncaring behaviour, his loneliness and his priorities. He cheats on numerous women, and despite his confidence towards women, he treats them with disrespect and refers to them as ""it"", using them"
"Alfie (Sonny Rollins album) Alfie is a 1966 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins of music composed for the film of the same name. It features performances by Rollins, with Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Cleveland, J.J. Johnson and Roger Kellaway, arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. The original film was made in London, England and features Rollins with British musicians, including pianist Stan Tracey, who are not heard on this album. The album reached #17 on the R&B ""Billboard"" chart. In the UK the album was originally released in 1966 under the title ""Sonny Plays Alfie"" on the HMV label (CLP"
"throughout England, mostly locations doubling for New York City, along with on-set shooting in Manhattan. The music score was composed by Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart and John Powell, featuring 13 original songs and a remake of the original 1966 title song. Further songs are by Wyclef Jean and The Isley Brothers. For the song ""Old Habits Die Hard"", Jagger and Stewart won the BFCA Award, the Golden Globe, a Sierra Award and the World Soundtrack Award. ""Alfie"" grossed $13,399,812 domestically and $21,750,734 overseas for a worldwide total of $35,150,546 on a $60 million budget. The film opened on November 5,"
"version of ""Alfie"" was released at the end of June 1966 almost two months prior to the film's US premiere (August 25, 1966); Sonny Bono's production showcased the song à la Phil Spector. Despite being the follow-up to the #2 hit ""Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"", ""Alfie"" rose no higher than #32. It was also a top 40 hit in Canada, reaching #36. The versions of ""Alfie"" by both Cilla Black and Cher were released in Australia in July 1966, with Black's becoming the major hit at #22; the Cher version's Australian chart peak was #96. ""Alfie"" was"
"of takes, including partial ones, is as high as ""twenty-eight or twenty-nine...I kept going [thinking] can we get it a little better...[add] just some magic[?]. Cilla was great and wound up delivering a killer vocal as she did on so many of my songs."" ""Alfie"" was released in January 1966, four months prior to the opening of the film. The single was essentially intended as a specialty item to foster interest in the upcoming film rather than a mainstream hit. However the track accrued enough interest to enter the UK Top 50 in April 1966, reaching #9 that May. Black's"
"Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe Awards Cannes Film Festival The 1966 film was followed by ""Alfie Darling"" (1975), with Alan Price replacing Caine. An updated 2004 remake starred Jude Law in the title role. Alfie (1966 film) Alfie is a 1966 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Michael Caine. It is an adaptation by Bill Naughton of his own novel and play of the same name. The film was released by Paramount Pictures. ""Alfie"" tells the story of a young womanising man who leads a self-centred life, purely for his own enjoyment, until events force him"
"Adrienne Posta Adrienne Posta (born Adrienne Luanne Poster, 4 March 1949) is an English film and television actress and singer, prominent during the 1960s and 1970s. She adopted the surname 'Posta' in 1966. She appeared in a number of films, including ""To Sir with Love"" and ""Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"" (both 1967), ""Up the Junction"" (1968) and ""Spring and Port Wine"" (1970). She also featured in many TV programmes including the first episode of Adam Faith's series ""Budgie"" (1971), where she appeared as a stripper. She appeared throughout the BBC 1 series ""It's Lulu"" (1973), singing, dancing"
"3529) before resurfacing in 1966 as ""Alfie"" on the jazz-based Impulse! label, as in the United States. Burt Bacharach was commissioned to write the title song, ""Alfie"", a hit in the UK for Cilla Black, which was used over the closing titles. In the US release of the film, a recording by Cher was substituted. Bacharach and Hal David received an Oscar nomination for the song. All compositions by Sonny Rollins. Alfie (Sonny Rollins album) Alfie is a 1966 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins of music composed for the film of the same name. It features performances by Rollins,"
"early in 1967. ""Alfie"" was released as the ""B"" side of a Bacharach/David ballad, ""The Beginning of Loneliness"", which charted in the Hot 100. Disc jockeys flipped the single and made it a double-sided hit. Bacharach had been contracted to produce ""Alfie"" for the Michael Caine film of the same name and wanted Warwick to sing the tune, but the British producers wanted a British subject to cut the tune. Cilla Black was selected to record the song, and her version peaked at #95 upon its release in the US. A cover version by Cher used in the American prints"
"Alfie (2004 film) Alfie is a 2004 British-American romantic comedy-drama film inspired by the 1966 British film of the same name and its 1975 sequel, starring Jude Law as the title character, the son of the character played by Michael Caine and Alan Price. The film was written, directed, and produced by Charles Shyer. Alfie Elkins (Jude Law) is a Cockney limo driver and sex addict, who regularly beds beautiful women on one-night stands. In addition to these, he maintains a casual relationship with a single mother named Julie (Marisa Tomei) that he refers to as his ""semi-regular-quasi-sort-of-girlfriend thing"", and"
"a track on the December 1967 album release ""Mr Dream Merchant"". Also in the spring of 1966 Dee Dee Warwick, while on a promotional junket to the UK, made a recording of ""Alfie"" at the Philips Studio in Marble Arch with Johnny Franz producing the session and Peter Knight arranging and conducting the orchestra; this version was first issued over a year later as the B-side of Dee Dee Warwick's 1967 single ""Locked in Your Love"". At the time the film ""Alfie"" premiered in New York City August 25, 1966 at least eight recorded versions of the song ""Alfie"" were"
"1965, five of their songs were in US Billboard Top 20, a record passed only by Elvis Presley and behind famous artists like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and others. Periodic solo releases by Cher continued during this period, including major successes with ""Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"", and Burt Bacharach & Hal David's theme from ""Alfie"" (as heard in the motion picture Alfie, as well as a single release), both in 1966. They did become briefly controversial in Los Angeles for siding with the young people being harassed on the Sunset Strip; as a result, they were"
"Joe Strummer, recorded ""Love Kills"" and ""Dum Dum Club"" for the ""Sid and Nancy"" soundtrack. In 1986, the Ramones released ""Love Kills"" on their album, ""Animal Boy"" which was a tribute to both Sid and Nancy. The 1986 UK feature-film ""Sid and Nancy"", directed by Alex Cox, portrays the chaotic last phase of their lives, ending with a fictionalised stabbing scene. It starred Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious and Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen. Oldman's performance was praised by ""Uncut"" as a ""hugely sympathetic reading of the punk figurehead as a lost and bewildered manchild."" Sid Vicious Sid Vicious (born"
"Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) ""Alfie"" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David to promote the 1966 film ""Alfie"". The song was a major hit for Cilla Black (UK) and Dionne Warwick (US). Although Bacharach has cited ""Alfie"" as his personal favorite of his compositions, he and Hal David were not eager to write a song to promote the film ""Alfie"" (a release from Paramount Pictures, which owned Famous Music) when approached by Ed Wolpin of the Composers' Guild. David thought the title character's name pedestrian: ""Writing a song about a man called 'Alfie' didn't seem too exciting"
"featured on the October 1966 album release entitled ""Chér"". Despite the relative failure of the version of ""Alfie"" cut for the US film release, Cilla Black's UK success with the song had attracted sufficient attention in the US for several American singers besides Cher to cover the song by the time the film ""Alfie"" opened in the US in August 1966. Two of these covers actually predate the Cher recording although neither was released prior to Cher's, the first evident recording of ""Alfie"" by an American singer being that cut by Jerry Butler in May 1966 which first appeared as"
"song on the sixth episode of ""Glee""'s sixth season, ""What The World Needs Now"". The episode aired in the US on 6 February 2015. Jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius references the main melody to demonstrate the use of bass for melodic lines in his 1985 instructional video ""Modern Electric Bass"". Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) ""Alfie"" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David to promote the 1966 film ""Alfie"". The song was a major hit for Cilla Black (UK) and Dionne Warwick (US). Although Bacharach has cited ""Alfie"" as his personal favorite of his compositions, he and Hal David"
"befriended by Spanky and his friends on her birthday and, as a result, is transformed from a lonely, disagreeable recluse to a happy and loving carefree soul in the 1936 Hal Roach ""Our Gang"" comedy ""Second Childhood"". In the same year she also portrayed the Gypsy Queen in the Laurel and Hardy film ""The Bohemian Girl"". Zeffie Tilbury Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury (November 20, 1863 – July 24, 1950) was an English actress. Born in Paddington, Middlesex, England, Tilbury was the only child of the variety performer Lydia Thompson and John Christian Tilbury, a riding-master, who died in a steeplechasing"
"""Alfie"" was released in Australia, New Zealand and the US in July 1966, a month prior to the release of the film in both countries. Despite the soundtrack appearance of a version of ""Alfie"" by Cher in the film's worldwide release, Black's ""Alfie"" was a sizable Australian hit at #22. It went to #20 in New Zealand. In the US - where Black had previously enjoyed only one moderate success with ""You're My World"" in 1964 - her ""Alfie"" single just made the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at #95, the pop mainstream sector's focus being primarily on Cher's version of the"
"Alexander in the role of Albert and Vanessa Williams as Rosie. Tyne Daly played Mae Peterson. Marc Kudisch, who played Conrad Birdie on tour opposite Tommy Tune, reprised the role. Chynna Phillips played Kim MacAfee, Sally Mayes played Mrs. MacAfee and George Wendt played Harry MacAfee. While this version remained mostly faithful to the original musical (Michael Stewart remains the only credited author of this version), several songs were added and re-arranged, and dialogue was slightly rewritten to smoothly facilitate the musical changes. The title song ""Bye Bye Birdie"", written for the 1963 film and sung by Ann-Margret, is re-arranged"
"1982 for which it became a number-one R&B hit for Holliday. Jennifer Hudson portrayed Effie in the 2006 film adaptation of ""Dreamgirls"", winning an Oscar for the role. Hudson's version became a Top 20 R&B single, and a number-one dance hit. In 1982, Jennifer Holliday, the actress who portrayed Effie in the original Broadway production, released the song as a single. It was her first single release and it met with great success, topping the ""Billboard"" R&B charts and attaining top forty positions on both the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. In 1983, Holliday won the Grammy"
"Patsy Kensit Patricia Jude Francis Kensit (born 4 March 1968) is an English actress, singer, model, and former child star. She was lead singer of the band Eighth Wonder from 1983 to 1989. Between 2004 and 2006, Kensit played the role of Sadie King in the ITV soap opera ""Emmerdale"". Following this, she played Faye Byrne in the BBC One medical drama ""Holby City"" from 2007 until 2010. Kensit has been married to musicians Dan Donovan, Jim Kerr, Liam Gallagher, and Jeremy Healy. Patsy Kensit was born on 4 March 1968 to James Henry Kensit (1915 – September 1987) and"
"were then set to music by Bacharach. The original was recorded in the key of F-sharp major, but Bacharach usually plays it live in B-flat major, the same key in which Cilla Black recorded it. Although Bacharach and David suggested ""Alfie"" be recorded by Dionne Warwick, their most prolific interpreter, Paramount felt the film's setting demanded the song be recorded by a UK singer. Accordingly, Sandie Shaw, who had had a UK #1 hit with the Bacharach/David composition ""(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me"", was initially invited to record ""Alfie"". When Shaw declined, the song was offered to Cilla"
"Playing narrator turns Alfie into a tour guide and something of his own defense attorney; it also means he has to enrapture the audience along with his conquests. Alfie (2004 film) Alfie is a 2004 British-American romantic comedy-drama film inspired by the 1966 British film of the same name and its 1975 sequel, starring Jude Law as the title character, the son of the character played by Michael Caine and Alan Price. The film was written, directed, and produced by Charles Shyer. Alfie Elkins (Jude Law) is a Cockney limo driver and sex addict, who regularly beds beautiful women on"
"For Love of Ivy For Love of Ivy is a 1968 romantic comedy film directed by Daniel Mann. The film stars Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters and Carroll O'Connor. The story was written by Sidney Poitier with screenwriter Robert Alan Arthur. The musical score was composed by Quincy Jones. The theme song ""For Love of Ivy"", written by Quincy Jones and Bob Russell, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The film received Golden Globe supporting acting nominations for Beau Bridges and Abbey Lincoln. Ivy Moore, an African-American maid, age 26, has"
"Sepia Cinderella Sepia Cinderella is a 1947 American musical race film directed by Arthur H. Leonard. The film is notable for musical numbers by vocalists Billy Daniels and Sheila Guyse, and for a brief guest appearance by former child star Freddie Bartholomew, who is onscreen as himself for five minutes, telling gags to recharge his post-war career. It also marks the big screen debut of Sidney Poitier, as an uncredited night club extra. The musical follows a young woman, Barbara (played by Guyse), in love with a good and kind bandleader, Bob (portrayed by Daniels), who seems oblivious to her"
"in these lists: To Sir, with Love To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall and singer Lulu making her film debut. James Clavell (who had written ""The Children's Story"" three years prior) directed from his own screenplay, which was based on E. R. Braithwaite's 1959 autobiographical novel of the same name. The film's title song ""To Sir with Love"", sung by Lulu, reached number one on the U.S. pop charts for five weeks"
"To Sir, with Love To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall and singer Lulu making her film debut. James Clavell (who had written ""The Children's Story"" three years prior) directed from his own screenplay, which was based on E. R. Braithwaite's 1959 autobiographical novel of the same name. The film's title song ""To Sir with Love"", sung by Lulu, reached number one on the U.S. pop charts for five weeks in the autumn"
"'The beat is the wildest! The blast is the craziest!... and the fun is where you find it!' Finders Keepers (1966 film) Finders Keepers is a 1966 British musical film directed by Sidney Hayers, written by Michael Pertwee and starring Cliff Richard. It was released in the U.S. the following year. A search was made to find an actress to play the Spanish girl who falls for Cliff, and the 21-year-old Viviane Ventura won the role: born in London, but fluent in Spanish, she sang a spirited duet with Cliff on ""Paella"". Cliff and The Shadows travel to a Spanish"
"of Chér"" (1966) features ""Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"", which reached number two in America and became her first million-seller solo single. ""Chér"", also released in 1966, contains the Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition ""Alfie"", which was added to the credits of the American version of the 1966 film of the same name and became the first stateside version of the popular song. ""With Love, Chér"" (1967) includes songs described by biographer Mark Bego as ""little soap-opera stories set to rock music"" such as the U.S. top-ten single ""You Better Sit Down Kids"". By the end of"
"also reached #1 on the R&B albums chart. The album featured cover art which did not feature Warwick at all. A sunset covered this album, with two lovers at the bottom of the photograph. Two of Warwick's hit singles from 1966 were included on the album: ""Trains and Boats and Planes"" and ""I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"". Of note was Warwick's version of ""Alfie"", which became Warwick's signature song after she was selected to perform it at the Academy Awards the following year. This version became a bigger Top 40 hit than any of the 40-plus"