phy for My Sister Eileen (1955), The Pajama Game (1957) and Damn Yankees (1958) was well received. However in 1969 Fosse was the first man since Busby Burkeley to be given absolute control over a production with the release of Sweet Charity. The result was a box-office nightmare, and for four years no one in Hollywood wanted to know him. Fosse soon bounced back though, after a string of directors had turned him down, he took charge of the movie Cabaret in 1972 which took home an Academy Award. He soon became the first to win an Oscar, an Emmy anda Tony Award, all in the same year. Later that year he took home an emmy for Liza Minellis television special Liza with a Z and a Tony for the stage show Pippin. After being shoved out of Hollywood Fosse rose to the top. Working with such stars as Dustin Hoffman in Lenny (1974), Eric Roberts in Star 80 (1983) and Roy Scheider in his (Fosses) autobiographical film All That Jazz (1979). However, the relentless workload and stress conveyed in All That Jazz plagued Fosse in the long run. His chain smoking caught up with him during work on Chicago when he suffered a heart attack and his marriage to Verdon also ended in divorce. Just like his two prior ones with dancers Mary Niles and Joan McCracken. Mirroring his auto-biographical movie, All That Jazz (1979) Fosse himself died just moments before the curtain went up on the triumphant revival of Sweet Charity in 1987....
