Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her energy carries her right through the role and dominates the lackluster ...
Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her energy carries her right through the role and dominates the lackluster movie around her. The plot, drawn from Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (itself based on a 19th-century British farce), is set in motion when Yonkers feed store clerk Cornelius Hackl (Michael Crawford) celebrates his promotion by taking his pal Barnaby Tucker (Danny Lockin) to New York City for a "corking good time." But Cornelius and Barnaby can't avoid crossing paths with their boss Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau), who'd give them Holy Ned if he saw them in a fancy restaurant with two fancy girls instead of tending the store. Mr. Vandergelder himself is the object of Dolly's affections, though she pretends to have only a professional interest in the widowed merchant, going through the motions of finding him a new wife when in fact she'd like to be the lucky bride herself. The film's musical set pieces include a show-stopping rendition of the title number, with Louis Armstrong more or less playing himself. The biggest number is "Before the Parade Passes By," in which thousands of costumed marchers and atmosphere extras cavort before a huge replica of a New York City thoroughfare in the 1890s (actually the main entrance of the 20th Century-Fox studio, with period facades adorning the office buildings). An artifact of an era in which Broadway musicals were a significant part of popular culture, Hello Dolly seemed bizarrely irrelevant in the social turmoil of the late 1960s, and it became one of the late-1960s big-budget failures that led Hollywood studios toward a different kind of filmmaking in the 1970s.
Barbra Streisand - Dolly Levi Walter Matthau - Horace Vandergelder Michael Crawford - Cornelius Hackl Louis Armstrong - Orchestra Leader Marianne McAndrew - Irene Molloy E.J. Peaker - Minnie Fay Danny Lockin - Barnaby Tucker Joyce Ames - Ermengarde Tommy Tune - Ambrose Kemper Judy Knaiz - Gussie Granger David Hurst - Rudolph Reisenweber Richard Collier - Vandergelder's Barber J. Pat O'Malley - Policeman In Park Fritz Feld - Fritz, the German waiter Harry Monty Ralph Roberts - Policeman
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Oh my goodness. ahahaha. 'I've never touched a woman before' Can Michael Crawford get ANY more adorable in this movie? And has anyone else noticed that him and Irene are almost like Wall-E and Eve? Wall-E and Cornelius are both so head over heels, and Irene and Eve love them, it's just that they have their head on straight.
Hahaah wow I'm really patheticly obsessed with these two movies.
Walter Matthau and Michael Crawford went to bet on horses, one of them was called Dolly, Michael made the beat and he won, Walter refused to talk to him awhile making the movie.
Walter Matthau could not stand working with Barbara Streisand. He did not want to be reminded that he was burden with this movie.
Carol Channing won a Tony for the role, she was 35 to 40 but was viewed to old for the movie. She would have pair better with Walter Matthau and been more believable.
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ahahaha.
'I've never touched a woman before'
Can Michael Crawford get ANY more adorable in this movie?
And has anyone else noticed that him and Irene are almost like Wall-E and Eve?
Wall-E and Cornelius are both so head over heels, and Irene and Eve love them, it's just that they have their head on straight.
Hahaah wow I'm really patheticly obsessed with these two movies.
Walter Matthau could not stand working with Barbara Streisand. He did not want to be reminded that he was burden with this movie.
Carol Channing won a Tony for the role, she was 35 to 40 but was viewed to old for the movie. She would have pair better with Walter Matthau and been more believable.