Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) "Alfie" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David to promote the 1966 film "Alfie". The song was a major hit for Cilla Black (UK) and Dionne Warwick (US). Although Bacharach has cited "Alfie" as his personal favorite of his compositions, he and Hal David were not eager to write a song to promote the film "Alfie" (a release from Paramount Pictures, which owned Famous Music) when approached by Ed Wolpin of the Composers' Guild. David thought the title character's name pedestrian: "Writing a song about a man called 'Alfie' didn't seem too exciting
The Caine Mutiny 1952, when it was replaced by "My Cousin Rachel". It moved back to first place on May 25, 1952, and remained another 15 weeks, before being supplanted by "The Silver Chalice", and last appeared on August 23, 1953, after 122 weeks on the list. In 1954 Columbia Pictures released the film "The Caine Mutiny" starring Humphrey Bogart as Queeg in a widely acclaimed performance that earned him the third and final Academy Award nomination of his career. After the novel's success, Wouk adapted the court-martial sequence into a full-length, two-act Broadway play, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial". Directed by Charles