Hello, Dolly!

Name: Hello, Dolly!
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Musical
Released: December 16, 1969
Duration: 146 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Danny Lockin, David Hurst, E.J. Peaker, Joyce Ames

1969

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: December 16, 1969 | G

Starring: Barbra Streisand, Danny Lockin, David Hurst, E.J. Peaker, Joyce Ames, Judy Knaiz, Marianne McAndrew, Michael Crawford, Tommy Tune, Walter Matthau

Summary: Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.

Director: Gene Kelly

Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Musical

Rating: G

Runtime: 146 min

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An expensive, expansive, sometimes exaggerated, sentimental, nostalgic, wholesome, pictorially opulent $20 million filmusical [from the 1964 Broadway production, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman] with the charisma of Barbra Streisand in the title role. Read full review

Pauline Kael

The whole archaic big musical circus here surrounds a Happening -- Barbra Streisand -- and it's all worth seeing in order to see her.

Mike Clark

Dolly lost a fortune and helped to all but kill the genre, yet this famed musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker is more fun than its rep indicates. [15 Nov 2005, p.8D]

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Only Streisand's second movie, but already (as co-star Matthau grumbled) she was hogging the screen. The trouble is that there isn't much to hog in this elephant which gave Star! a helping hoof in burying the Hollywood musical. Read full review

Josh Larsen

By the time Streisand takes over the entire movie with the title number, in which the massive waitstaff of an upscale restaurant gathers to sing and dance her praises, I couldn’t help but wonder what all the fuss was about. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Gene Kelly, who directed two classic musicals with Stanley Donen, here acts like a caretaker of a big, valuable property. He and Michael Kidd, his choreographer, have protected everything Gower Champion gave the original, and added nothing to the heritage of the musical screen except statistics. Read full review

Pat Graham

Gene Kelly directed, a long way from Terpsichore apparently, though not, alas, from the Thanksgiving turkey. Read full review

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