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DVD Details
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Rated: G
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 19, 2003
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford & Louis Armstrong | |
Performer: | E.J. Peaker, Tommy Tune, David Hurst & Marianne McAndrew | |
Directed by | Gene Kelly | |
Edited by | William Reynolds | |
Screenwriting by | Ernest Lehman | |
Composition by | Jerry Herman | |
Art Direction by | Jack Martin Smith | |
Director of Photography: | Harry Stradling Sr. |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1969 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Lennie Hayton & Lionel Newman
Academy Awards 1969 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1969 -
Best Sound: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
...fares best with the ensemble dance numbers that elegantly combine group movement and individual footwork.
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LarsenOnFilm
Streisand is a unique performer, with that inborn vitality which marks great personalities.
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Variety
Rating: 2.5/4 --
This is a flawed movie, there's no question of that, but at the same time there are some enjoyable moments.
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Three Movie Buffs
Hello, Dolly! is only the fourth best screen musical of 1969, and I find that a relaxing thought.
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The Spectator
Rating: 4/5 --
[Barbra Streisand] was really too young for the role... But she was certainly in fine voice, making more of the songs by Jerry Herman than did Herman himself.
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Sky Cinema
It relies almost exclusively on the celebrated eyes, ears, nose and throat of Streisand. Her musicianship remains irreproachable. But her mannerisms are so arch and calculated that one half expects to find a key implanted in her back.
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TIME Magazine
The Jerry Herman score is unmemorable, Michael Kidd's choreography is foreshortened to accommodate yards of additional dialogue by Ernest Lehman, and the rest is Streisand capably doing her thing in a series of plushily colossal sets.
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Time Out
Description by OLDIES.com:
One of Barbra Streisand's most beloved performances is that of the indomitable Dolly Levi in this hugely popular musical that received a Best Picture Academy Award nomination in 1969. It's turn-of-the-century Yonkers, New York, where an ambitious young widow with a penchant for matchmaking (Streisand) has an idea for the perfect match - tight-fisted, local merchant Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau) and - herself! As she tries to win his heart, we're treated to one of the most musically entertaining, hilariously underhanded plots in film history. Directed by Gene Kelly, this Oscar winner for Best Sound, Music, Score and Art Direction/Set Decoration is among the world's most cherished films.
Product Description:
In early-20th-century Yonkers, a wealthy local merchant, Horace Vandergelder (played by Walter Matthau), hires matchmaker Dolly Levi (Barbra Streisand) to find a mate for him--but instead she decides to win him over for herself. His life is further complicated by his young niece, Ermengarde, who is determined to wed an artist Horace finds entirely unsuitable, and by his two hapless employees, who against Horace's wishes leave work to venture into New York so each can kiss a girl. Miserly, curmudgeonly, irascible Horace finds that matters have gotten completely out of his control--and the only person who seems to know exactly what is going on is the widowed Dolly Levi. The film is based on a succession of source material, beginning with the 1835 British play A DAY WELL SPENT by John Oxenford, Thornton Wilder's 1938 play THE MERCHANT OF YONKERS, and Wilder's successful 1954 adaptation of his own play, renamed THE MATCHMAKER, rewritten for Ruth Gordon and then made into a film by the same name in 1958 starring Shirley Booth. In 1964, Carol Channing starred in the story's next incarnation on Broadway: Michael Stewart's play HELLO, DOLLY! on which this film's screenplay is directly based.
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