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Hello, Dolly! (1969)
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Writers:
Michael Stewart (based on a stage play by)
Thornton Wilder (based on the book "The Matchmaker" by)
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Thornton Wilder (based on the book "The Matchmaker" by)
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Release Date:
16 December 1969 (USA)
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Plot:
A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder...
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Awards:
Won 3 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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13 nominations
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(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)
(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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Put on your Sunday Clothes
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Cast
(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 |
| Tommy Tune | ... | Ambrose Kemper |
| Joyce Ames | ... | Ermengarde Vandergelder |
| 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 | ... | Louis Armstrong |
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146 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System) |
Mono (35 mm prints) |
DTS 70 mm (70mm re-release)
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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:G
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Leading UK DVD retailer HMV noted during an analysis of its 3rd quarter figures (July-September) for 2008 that "Hello, Dolly!" had sold more copies in this period than in the all the quarters combined for the previous 10 years. This was put down to the popularity of WALL·E (2008) which features clips from "Hello, Dolly!" at several key points.
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Continuity: In the chase sequence in the Harmonia Gardens restaurant, Horace Vandergelder is seen entering the fireman's pole in an anticlockwise direction. When he exits at the bottom he does so in a clockwise direction.
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Quotes:
Sullivan, ticket seller:
Where to, Dolly?
Dolly Levi: Yonkers, New York, to handle a highly personal matter for Mr. Horace Vandergelder, the well-known, unmarried, half-a-millionaire.
Sullivan, ticket seller: Gonna marry him yourself, Dolly?
Dolly Levi: Why, Mr. Sullivan, what ever put such a preposterous idea into my head... er, your head!
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Dolly Levi: Yonkers, New York, to handle a highly personal matter for Mr. Horace Vandergelder, the well-known, unmarried, half-a-millionaire.
Sullivan, ticket seller: Gonna marry him yourself, Dolly?
Dolly Levi: Why, Mr. Sullivan, what ever put such a preposterous idea into my head... er, your head!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: (#2.25)" (1969)
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Soundtrack:
The Waiters' Galop
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This gargantuan musical was the last of its kind. It's like a dinosaur ear-marked for extinction and yet it's highly entertaining. Parts of it are terrible, (mostly those scenes in which Babs doesn't appear), and Gene Kelly's direction is never as light on its feet as his dancing used to be but when the aforementioned Miss Striesand is on screen, the movie soars. Critics complained that at 27 she was much too young for the part of Dolly Levi but she's a bona-fide star, so what the heck; her Dolly is ageless and as musical-comedy performances go this is one of the best.
The Jerry Herman score is decidedly old-fashioned Broadway. Sondheim may be the greater composer but Herman gave us tunes we could hum and the production numbers here are terrific, in particular the title song which gives us Striesand, high-kicking waiters and Louis Armstrong. Purists will always prefer the Joseph Anthony version of Thornton Wilder's original play "The Matchmaker" but this is no disgrace, so put on your Sunday clothes and let's have a whale of a time.