David Bretherton
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David L. Bretherton was an American film editor with more than 40 credits for films released from 1954 to 1996.
L. to R. : Paul Scofield, Michel Simon (background) & Burt Lancaster in The Train.
Cabaret (1972 film)
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Cabaret is a 1972 American musical period drama film directed by Bob Fosse from a screenplay by Jay Allen, based on the stage musical of the same name by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff, which in turn was based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. It stars Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, and Joel Grey. Multiple numbers from the stage score were used for the film, which also featured three other songs by Kander and Ebb, including two written for the adaptation.
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The character of Sally Bowles was based upon Jean Ross, a British cabaret singer with whom Isherwood lived as a room-mate in Weimar-era Berlin.
Bob Fosse was eager to direct the film after the box office failure of Sweet Charity (1969).
Newspaper ad for the film