Few movies in Hollywood history are as delightfully strange and unexpectedly iconic as the 1976 gangster musical Bugsy Malone, where every tough guy and girl is played by a kid.
Bugsy Malone was an outlier when it was released in the mid-1970s.It was completely unlike any other movie released that year, including hits such as Rocky, All The President's Men, The Omen, A Star is Born, and The Bad News Bears.
The film starred Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Flo Nancarrow, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Bonnie Langford, Dexter Fletcher, and Albin Humpty Jenkins. The youthful cast played up the film’s playful take on gangster tropes.
Bugsy Malone was set in 1920s New York. Directed by Alan Parker, the film follows rival mobsters competing for control of the city, complete with dance numbers and comedic whipped cream gun battles.
Parade Daily? SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox ? Foster, who would go on to win two Academy Awards, shared with Magic Radio in 2017 her experience about making the film. She recalled that the movie was a bigger hit in the UK than in the United States.
"It really was a British movie. We shot it here, and most of the cast was British," she explained. "I remember being scared because I came from shooting Taxi Driver, so I wasn't there for rehearsals." Foster was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Iris Steensma.
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However, she experienced some mean girl behavior from some of her fellow female castmates during filming. "The first day I arrived, there was this group of girls, dancers, and they had a fire extinguisher in their hands, asking me, 'What's the password?' I didn't know and they sprayed me!"
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In a separate interview, Baio told Adam Corolla that he was ready to quit the business when he was asked to audition for Bugsy Malone. He read for two parts, the actor said, and asked director Parker "am I done" before he "threw the script at him" and walked out the door.
"Before I got home, I had the job," Baio continued. He was 13 when he booked the role.
Looking back on it, Baio called Bugsy Malone "a fantastic movie. What Alan Parker and that whole bunch of guys did was amazing. You can't not like the movie. It's kids dressed up as mobsters and wise guys shooting whipped cream guns."
The film's composer, Paul Williams, received several key accolades for his work on the movie. He was nominated for the movie's music in the category of Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation at the 1977 Academy Awards and Best Original Song at the 1977 Golden Globes.
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