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| Hello, Dolly! | |
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 Original film poster | |
| Directed by | Gene Kelly |
| Produced by | Ernest Lehman |
| Written by | Ernest Lehman |
| Starring | Barbra Streisand Walter Matthau Michael Crawford Louis Armstrong |
| Music by | Jerry Herman |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling Sr. |
| Editing by | William Reynolds |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | 1969 |
| Running time | 145 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Hello, Dolly! is a 1969 American musical film, based on the Broadway production of the same name. Gene Kelly directed producer Ernest Lehman\'s screenplay. The cast included Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Tommy Tune, Fritz Feld, and Louis Armstrong, whose recording of the title tune was a #1 hit in the mid-1960s. It was photographed in 65 mm Todd-AO by Harry Stradling Sr..
Ironically, Barbra Streisand lost the 1964 Tony Award (as a nominee for her role in Funny Girl) to Carol Channing, who originated the role of Dolly Levi in the Broadway production.
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Set in 1890, the film tells the story of widowed matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi (Barbra Streisand), who travels from New York City to the suburb of Yonkers, New York to visit grumpy Horace Vandergelder (Walter Mathau), a prominent, wealthy bachelor and merchant who has decided he needs a wife to tend to himself and his home. While there, she convinces him - and his two stock clerks, Cornelius Hackl (Michael Crawford) and Barnaby Tucker (Danny Lockin), his niece Ermengarde (Joyce Ames), and her beau Ambrose Kemper (Tommy Tune) - to go to New York City. Dolly, who has decided to nab Vandergelder for herself, arranges a match between the two clerks and the woman Vandergelder had been courting, a milliner named Irene Molloy, and her shop assistant Minnie Fay. A web of complicated romantic entanglements ensues, culminating in a free-for-all at the elegant Harmonia Gardens restaurant. In the elaborate title number, as Dolly enters the restaurant, Louis Armstrong makes an appearance as a bandleader and sings along with Streisand. As the film ends, each character is matched with his or her ideal partner.
Hello, Dolly! won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation), and Best Sound. It also was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Picture. (Neither of the new songs Herman wrote for the movie, "Just Leave Everything to Me" and "Love is Only Love", which had been written for the stage version of Mame but cut before it opened, was cited.)
The film received BAFTA nominations for Streisand and Matthau, art direction, and cinematography. It also received five Golden Globe nominations, as Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), and for Streisand, Kelly, and two for McAndrew, as Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer.
It was one of the top-grossing film of the year. when it was released on video in 1980, it earned $1,000,000 in sales, almost as much as The Sound of Music. Konder, George C. Hello, Dolly!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album (CD Re-issue). Liner notes. Philips Records, 1994
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