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Director:
Writers:
Michael Stewart (based on a stage play by)
Thornton Wilder (based on the book "The Matchmaker" by)
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Release Date:
16 December 1969 (USA) more
Plot:
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 synopsis
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Won 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 13 nominations more
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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
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Put on your Sunday Clothes more (88 total)

Cast

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Hello, Dolly! (Argentina) (Peru) (Spain) [es]
Alô, Dolly! (Brazil) [pt]
Alo!... Dolly... (Greece) [el]
Cici kiz (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Hello Dolly (Denmark) [da]
Hello, Dolly! (Poland) [pl]
Hello, Dolly! (France) [fr]
Hello, Dolly! (Finland) [fi]
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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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Trivia:
Also in the original musical, Cornelius Hackl and the Widow Molloy sing "It Only Takes a Moment" in the courtroom during Horace Vandergelder's trial; in the movie, however, they sing "It Only Takes a Moment" in Central Park. The entire arrest and trial sequence was dropped for the movie version. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Near the finale of "Now That I'm Dancing", the female dancers leap forward over a park bench via a low platform behind it. In the following wide shot, this riser has disappeared. more
Quotes:
Horace: You are a seven-foot-tall nincompoop!
Ambrose Kemper: That's an insult!
Horace: All the facts about you are insults!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Dark Side of Tomorrow (1970) more
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It Takes a Woman more

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9 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Put on your Sunday Clothes, 30 October 2007
8/10
Author: Martin Bradley (MOscarbradley@aol.com) from Derry, Ireland

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.

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