 When the film rights were originally bought by producer  Martin Richards (I) (qv) in the 1970s, Bob Fosse (qv) was to be  involved with the film project, and Goldie Hawn (qv),  Liza Minnelli (qv) and Frank Sinatra (qv) were announced as the  stars; but Fosses death in 1987 ended that attempt at a film  version.