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Goodbye Charlie

ComedyFilm & TelevisionTony Curtis
  • 1964

Debbie Reynolds is playing a man—Tony Curtis’s partner in various criminal enterprises –who died and came back in the body of a gorgeous blonde. For the most part, tedium ensues; it’s not that funny and a misfire from a good director (Vincente Minnelli). This clip also isn’t such a great scene, but it is interesting in that it references a major Vassar tradition: the Daisy Chain. Our scene is fairly deep into the movie, where Reynolds is beginning to enjoy life as a woman, even becoming more of one, and thinking about marrying the big gambler who killed her former (male) self.