Goodbye Charlie is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds and Pat Boone.

Soon after the guests leave, an exhausted George is awakened by a knock at the terrace door and the appearance of Bruce Minton III assisting a petite blonde woman swathed in a huge brown overcoat.

Bruce rushes off to a dinner engagement, leaving a sleep-deprived George to cope with the delirious woman.

Her masculine mannerisms begin to fade, partly because Charlie is a consummate actor, but also because the change is more than skin deep.

George comforts her as he would a weeping girl, wiping her tears and stroking her hair to calm her, then pulls back, disturbed at the tenderness.

Eventually, in a grim role-reversal that she recognizes when it happens, Charlie is chased around the house by Leopold, who cheerfully spouts amorous nonsense and is intent on making love to her.

George is asleep in a chair; the sound of a woman's voice repeatedly calling "Charlie" wakes him.

The bottle falls and breaks; Charlie laps a bit from the floor and, looking heavenward, begins to howl.

[7] According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $7 million in rentals for the studio to financially break even on its release.

[9] The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther led his review of the film by panning the play and the movie: "… 'Goodbye, Charlie,' was bad enough on the stage.

And it has Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis so sadly cast in distasteful roles that it causes even a hardened moviegoer to turn away from it in pain and shame.

"[11] In 2019, Stephen Vagg reviewed the film in Diabolique magazine: "It's not that shocking to see the star of Spartacus (1960)... make moves on a woman not knowing she's a man, but it is a surprise to see Boone to do it.