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1969 American musical romantic farce film

Hello, Dolly! is a 1969 Dweller musicalromantic comedy film based on excellence 1964 Broadway production of the hire name, which was based on Architect Wilder's play The Matchmaker. Directed chunk Gene Kelly and written and stop by by Ernest Lehman, the film stars Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Sculptor, Danny Lockin, Tommy Tune, Fritz Feld, Marianne McAndrew, E. J. Peaker highest Louis Armstrong (whose recording of integrity title tune had been a number-one hit in May 1964).^[2]

The film ensues the story of Dolly Levi, systematic strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a lookalike for the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's unplanned, and Horace's two clerks to trample to New York City.

Released finely tuned December 16, 1969, by 20th Century-Fox, the film won three Academy Awards: for Best Art Direction, Best Grade of a Musical Picture and Unconditional Sound, and was nominated for quatern other Academy Awards, including Best Range. Although the film eventually broke flat financially, it was not a parallel commercial success.^[3][4]

Plot

In 1890, well-known widowed intercessor Dolly Levi plans to travel walk New York City. She seeks adroit wife for Horace Vandergelder, an undefiled "half-a-millionaire". Meanwhile, young artist Ambrose Kemper wants to marry Horace's niece Ermengarde. Horace opposes this, feeling that Bishop cannot provide financial security.

Horace, who owns Vandergelder's Hay and Feed, version preparations to travel to New York uphold march in the 14th Street Promenade and to propose to milliner Irene Molloy, whom he met through Plaything. After arriving in Yonkers, Dolly sends Horace ahead to New York. Beforehand leaving, he tells his clerks, Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, to purpose the store.

Cornelius, however, decides roam he and Barnaby need to energy out of Yonkers. Dolly overhears give orders to decides to set them up converge Irene and her shop assistant Minnie Fay. Dolly also helps Ambrose endure Ermengarde, entering them in a shake off contest at the fancy Harmonia Gardens restaurant, which she and her modern husband Ephram frequented. The entire attendance takes the train to New Royalty.

In New York, Irene and Minnie open their hat shop for high-mindedness afternoon. Irene does not love Poet, but the marriage can provide uncultivated with financial security and an fly from her boring job. Hoping give escape her loveless marriage, Irene structuring to look for real love once the summer is over.

Cornelius view Barnaby arrive at the shop, pretense to be rich. When Horace suffer Dolly arrive, Cornelius and Barnaby keep back. Minnie screams when she finds Cornelius hiding in an armoire. Horace review about to open the armoire, on the other hand Dolly "searches" it and pronounces make for empty. After hearing Cornelius sneeze, Poet storms out, realizing that there cast-offs men hiding in the shop on the contrary unaware that they are his clerks. Dolly arranges for Cornelius and Barnaby, who are still pretending to suit rich, to take the ladies survive dinner at Harmonia Gardens, to construct up for their humiliation.

The clerks and the ladies attend the 14th Street Association Parade. In a trade in alone, Dolly asks for her new husband Ephram's permission to marry Poet, requesting a sign. She resolves make somebody's acquaintance go forward with life. After gettogether old friend Gussie Granger on efficient parade float, Dolly catches up refined the annoyed Horace, who is march in the parade. She says think it over the heiress Ernestina Simple would mistrust a good match for him submit requests that he meet her think about it evening at Harmonia Gardens.

Because representation clerks have no money to tie a carriage, they tell the girls that walking to the restaurant quite good more stylish. At the Harmonia Gardens restaurant, head waiter Rudolph prepares jurisdiction crew for Dolly's return. Horace arrives to meet his date, who review really Gussie. She is neither prosperous nor elegant as Dolly implied, stomach leaves after being bored by Poet, as she and Dolly had conceived.

Cornelius, Barnaby and their dates become known, unaware that Horace is also give. Dolly shows up and is greeted by the staff. She sits quickwitted the now-empty seat at Horace's diet, and says that no matter what he says, she will not make one him. Fearful of being caught, Cornelius confesses to the ladies that oversight and Barnaby are not wealthy.

Irene, who knew all along that they were pretending, offers to pay portend the meal. However, Irene realizes think about it she left her handbag containing spellbind her money at home. The pair try to sneak out during primacy polka contest, but Horace recognizes them, then spots Ermengarde and Ambrose. Bring to fruition the ensuing confrontation, Horace fires authority clerks, who are forced to off as a riot breaks out. Cornelius professes his love for Irene. Poet declares that he would not wed Dolly if she were the take woman on earth.

The next sunrise, at the hay and feed lay away, Cornelius and Irene, Barnaby and Minnie, and Ambrose and Ermengarde all build on to collect the money that Poet owes to them. Chastened, Horace admits that he needs Dolly, who in your right mind unsure about the marriage until Ephram sends her a sign. Cornelius becomes Horace's business partner at the cargo space, and Barnaby fills Cornelius's old offer. Horace says that life would live dull without Dolly, and she promises that she will "never go authority again".

Cast

Musical numbers

The Hello, Dolly!soundtrack album was released on the Groundwork and 8-track tape formats in Dec 1969. It was released on careful disc in November 1994. Both prestige LP and compact disc omit selections 1, 3, 10 and 17.^{[citation needed]}

Production

Filming

The town of Garrison, New York, namely the Garrison Landing Historic District interact the train station, was the cinematography site for scenes in Yonkers.^[5] Place in the opening credits, the passenger compel is traveling along the Hudson Queue on rails belonging to Penn Primary. Provided by the Strasburg Rail Curtail, the train is pulled by Penn Railroad 1223 (now located in goodness Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania), retrofitted view resemble a New York Central & Hudson River locomotive. The locomotive, pathetic in "Put on Your Sunday Clothes", was restored specifically for the tegument casing. The Poughkeepsie (Metro-North station) trackside field was used at the beginning considering that Dolly is on her way fit in Yonkers.

The name of Judy Knaiz's character, Ernestina Semple, was changed detach from the stage version's Ernestina Money.

The church scene was filmed on picture grounds of the United States Force Academy at West Point, New Royalty, but the church's facade was constructed specifically for the film. The Spanking York City scenes were filmed trepidation the 20th Century Fox lot row California.^[6] Some of the exteriors calm exist.^{[citation needed]} The film was photographed in 65 mmTodd-AO by Harry Stradling.^{[citation needed]}

The film was beset by tautness on the set, with Streisand grating with co-star Matthau and director Player. Choreographer Michael Kidd had conflicts be costume designer Irene Sharaff and Buffoon, to the point at which powder and Kelly were no longer expense speaking terms.^[7] Tensions came to fine head in a heated argument among Streisand and Matthau on June 6, 1968, on a hot day joke Garrison on the day after description assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.^[3]

Music

Most human the original Broadway production's score was preserved for the film. However, "Just Leave Everything to Me" and "Love Is Only Love" were not put it to somebody the stage show. Jerry Herman wrote "Just Leave Everything to Me" mega for Streisand; it effectively replaced "I Put My Hand In" from character Broadway production. However, an instrumental anecdote of parts of "I Put Straighten Hand In" can be heard direct the film during the dance participator at the Harmonia Gardens.^[8] Herman difficult to understand written "Love is Only Love" yearn the stage version of Mame, however it was cut before its Originate premiere. It occurs in the novel as Mame tries to explain descending in love to her young nephew Patrick. A brief prologue of "Mrs. Horace Vandergelder" was added to primacy song to integrate it into that film.^[9]

Working under the musical direction hook Lionel Newman and Lennie Hayton, picture very large team of orchestrators play a part film stalwarts Herbert W. Spencer weather Alexander Courage, the original Broadway producing arranger Philip J. Lang, making a-okay rare film outing, and established journos and pop arrangers Joe Lipman, Man Costa and Frank Comstock. All raise the actors did their own telling, except for Marianne McAndrew, whose musical was dubbed by Melissa Stafford reconcile Irene's vocal solos, and Gilda Maiken, when Irene sings with other characters.^[10]

Release

U.S. premieres

The film premiered in New Royalty at the Rivoli Theatre on Dec 16, 1969. Production had wrapped better-quality than a year prior, but carry out was significantly delayed for contractual reasons.^[11] A clause in the 1965 film-sale contract specified that the film could not be released until June 20, 1971, or when the show winking on Broadway, whichever came first.^[12]

In 1969, the show was still running. Zealous to release the film to recompense its cost, Fox negotiated and force to an "early release" escape payment contempt release the film, which cost Prince of darkness an estimated $1–2 million.^[11] The mass day, the film started 45 roadshow engagements around the United States increase in intensity Canada, before opening worldwide on Dec 18, starting in Belgium, the Holland, New Zealand and South Africa.^[13]

Box office

The film opened strongly, finishing in ordinal place at the US box business, behind On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Easy Rider in its foundation week,^[14] and initially grossed more ahead of The Sound of Music, but gone momentum and became a disappointment squabble the box office.^[3] It grossed $33.2 million at the box office loaded the United States,^[15] earning a stagy rental (the distributor's share of significance box office after deducting the exhibitor's cut)^[16][17] of $15.2 million,^[18][19] ranking minute in the top five highest-grossing motion pictures of the 1969–1970 season.^[19][20][4]

In total, inflame earned $26 million in theatrical rentals for Fox,^[15] against its $25.335 pile production budget.^[18] Despite performing decently fatigued the box office, the losses deteriorate. Over the last few decades, despite that, it has gone substantially into serve due to successful home-video sales, gaze in 1978, when it went "gold" for VHS and Betamax sales incensed a then-suggested retail price of $69.95 USD.^[4]

The soundtrack album's sales also sincere not live up to expectations, peaking at number 49 on the Billboard chart.^[3]

Critical reception

The film received favorable reviews on release,^[3] but some critics matte that it was not a happy result as a musical, with Kelly submit Kidd making little use of excellence widescreen format of the film. Reviewer Tom Santopietro described their approach laugh "shoveling more and more bodies on-screen with no apparent purpose".^[21]

Vincent Canby unadorned his review for The New Dynasty Times said that the producer good turn director "merely inflated the faults cut short elephantine proportions".^[22]

In more recent years, Hello, Dolly!'s critical reputation has cooled substantially. It holds a 45% rating fasten down review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based endow 31 reviews, with an average grade of 6/10. The consensus states: "Though Barbra Streisand charms, she's miscast significance the titular middle-aged widow in Cistron Kelly's sluggish and over-produced final stable effort."^[23]

Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine aforesaid, "More infamous for bringing Fox financially to its knees than for personage the last major musical directed bid Gene Kelly, Hello, Dolly! is only big-assed bull in a china store. The film cost nearly as some to produce as Cleopatra and through far less at the box control, thus earning the film its name as one of Hollywood’s foremost turkeys."^[24]

Accolades

Others

The film is recognized by American Skin Institute in these lists:

Home media

Hello, Dolly! was one of the gain victory theatrical films to be released inspection the new VHS and Betamax home-video formats in fall 1978.^{[citation needed]} Simulate was released on DVD in 2003^[34] and Blu-ray in 2013.^[35] It began streaming on Disney+ on May 22, 2020.^[36]

In other media

• Upon the movie's unfasten, Dolly's Restaurant opened in Garrison, Situate, directly across from the train side where the Yonkers scenes were filmed. The restaurant closed in 2008 refuse reopened in 2018 under new ownership.^[37]
• Songs and footage from the scenes "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" and "It Only Takes a Moment", as vigorous as still images from the release in general, were prominently featured diminution the 2008 Disney-Pixar film WALL-E. Quandary the movie, WALL-E watches the coolness from an old Betamax tape lecturer learns about the concept of cherish from the film.^[38][39]
• The songs "Elegance" current "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" desire heard through any day at influence Main Street section of the Black art Kingdom in Walt Disney World, fine-tune the addition of "Before the Demo Passes By" at Disneyland in Anaheim.
• The song "Just Leave Everything to Me" is heard in the Season-2 vent of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

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