Top cast:Fred Mace,Mabel Normand,Edward Dillon
Director:J. Stuart Blackton&James Young
Genre:Family
Region:Russia
Year:2024
Storyline:The main characters drawn together in a misconceived love riangle in the corrupt, pleasure-seeking world outside the cabaret were:Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli in a bravura, career-defining performance), a flamboyant, amoral and effervescent American singer/performerBrian Roberts (Michael York), Sally's bisexual boarding house tenant - a Britisher and English language teacherMaximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem), a homosexual German playboy-baron[In the original mid-1960s Broadway production version, he main characters were an American writer named Cliff Bradshaw and 19 year-old English cabaret singer Sally Bowles - reversed nationalities in the film.The Wife hurriedly selects a pretty dress and bonnet from her closet, changes her clothes, and kisses her baby goodbye.(The 1955 film starred Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey and Shelley Winters.) American playwright Joe Masteroff scripted the original book of the play version.Some forecast that Fosse's musical would be a bust (a musical with Nazis?) - similar to Mel Brooks' dark comedyThe Producers (1968)with its "Springtime For Hitler" number.Tommy calls him: "Hendry." While selling untaxed cigarette cartons out of the back of a car trunk, Henry is "pinched" by two city detectives and brought to rial.