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Hello, Dolly! (1969)
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16 December 1969 (USA) morePlot:
A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder... more | add synopsisAwards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 13 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(5 articles)
Berlin Film Fest To Spotlight 70mm Classics (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 30 October 2008, 2:37 AM, PDT)
Messing To Recreate Channing's Dolly
(From WENN. 25 August 2008, 6:32 PM, PDT)
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You all are wearing me out. moreCast
(Credited cast)| Barbra Streisand | ... | Dolly Levi | |
| Walter Matthau | ... | Horace Vandergelder | |
| Michael Crawford | ... | Cornelius Hackl | |
| Marianne McAndrew | ... | Irene Molloy | |
| Danny Lockin | ... | Barnaby Tucker | |
| E.J. Peaker | ... | Minnie Fay | |
| Joyce Ames | ... | Ermengarde Vandergelder | |
| Tommy Tune | ... | Ambrose Kemper | |
| Judy Knaiz | ... | Gussie Granger / Ernestina Simple | |
| David Hurst | ... | Rudolph Reisenweber | |
| Fritz Feld | ... | Fritz, German waiter | |
| Richard Collier | ... | Joe, Vandergelder's barber | |
| J. Pat O'Malley | ... | Policeman in Park | |
| Louis Armstrong | ... | Himself - Orchestra Leader | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Richard Monahan | ... | Dancer | |
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146 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
Iceland:L | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Norway:7 | New Zealand:G | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:GFilming Locations:
20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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The original design of Barbra Streisand's gold-beaded gown shown in the Harmonia Gardens scene weighed 40 pounds and cost $8,000. Twice during rehearsals, she tripped over its 2.5-foot train. Other dancers also tripped over it during rehearsal, so the train was taken off the dress. The train is shown intact when Streisand starts down the stairs, but later it disappears. moreGoofs:
Continuity: At the railway ticket window in NYC, the existing line of ticket buyers disappears in the shot from inside the ticket taker's office. The line re-appears in the shots outside the office. moreQuotes:
Dolly Levi: [singing] It takes a woman to quietly plan to take him and change him to her kind of man and to gently lead him where fortune can find him and not let him know that the power behind him was that dainty woman, that fragile woman, that sweetheart, that mistress, that wife. moreSoundtrack:
Before the Parade Passes By moreFAQ
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Perhaps... just perhaps... Gene Kelly INTENTIONALLY cast Barbara Streisand as a younger, more sexual Dolly rather than the older version because he thought it would make more money... obviously wrong, but nonetheless an interesting strategy. I don't remember much of that time (late 60's) but I do remember seeing the movie with my mother at a drive-in way back then, and then catching a commercial-ridden version on a local TV station in the 80's after I had significantly fallen in love with Babs by way of Yentl. I believe, if I remember correctly, that Rudy's line at the Harmonia Gardens says that Dolly has not made an appearance there in over 2 years (not 20, not 40, not 50)... Let's assume that Ephraim died some 2 years ago and Dolly in despair cut herself out of her old life. Even at 27 (Babs age at the time), she could have been widowed at 25, which at the turn of the century would have been about 7 years of marriage for most ladies... How long did she have to have been married to qualify as "experienced". She purposefully picks on Horace because she has decided not to look for another "love of her life," but rather has chosen to affect someone who is bound to spend his life alone (like she has been facing) and make something more of his life than he alone could have done. Remember she even says in her prayer to Ephraim "Oh it won't be a marriage in the sense that we had one..." Get off the "She's too young" kick and look at the movie for what it is... a big, splashy, excellent produced bit of Americana. Movie musicals will never be this audaciously classy and clever ever again.