Alfie

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• Alfie! opened at the Morosco Theater on December 17, 1964 and ran for 21 performances.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): SPOILER: All the time that Alfie is waiting for Lily and then the abortionist to arrive, he's watching the rain. The abortionist is wearing a wet raincoat, and yet when Alfie leaves Lily on her own, and wonders down to the churchyard, where he spots Malcolm playing, the neighborhood is bone dry.
• The picture in Ruby's flat is Vladimir Tretchikoff's "Chinese Girl", popularly called "The Green Lady". It was one of the most popular and highest-selling prints of the 1960s.
• Several well-known actors (including Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, James Booth and Anthony Newley) turned down the title role due to the then taboo subject matter of abortion. Despite having played "Alfie" on Broadway, Terence Stamp categorically declined to reprise the role on film, thus giving his good friend and then roommate Michael Caine the breakthrough role of his career.