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Hello, Dolly!
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.

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.

• "Call On Dolly"
• "Just Leave Everything To Me"
• "Main Titles"
• "It Takes a Woman"
• "It Takes a Woman (Reprise)"
• "Put on Your Sunday Clothes"
• "Ribbons Down My Back"
• "Dancing"
• "Before the Parade Passes By"
• "Intermission"
• "Elegance"
• "Love Is Only Love"
• "Hello, Dolly"
• "It Only Takes a Moment"
• "So Long, Dearie"
• "Finale"
• "End Credits"

DVD cover

• 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
• Joyce Ames .... Ermengarde Vandergelder
• Tommy Tune .... Ambrose Kemper
• 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, Orchestra Leader

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.

Although it was one of the top-grossing films of the year, it failed to recoup its $24 million cost. Critics panned the film as over-produced and too long, and much of the criticism was directed at Streisand, in part due to her age. However, when it was released on video in 1980, it earned $1,000,000 in sales, almost as much as The Sound of Music. ^[1]

• Hello, Dolly! at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Times review
• 2003 review of the DVD release
• 1. ^ Konder, George C. Hello, Dolly!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album (CD Re-issue). Liner notes. Philips Records, 1994

• Collection of reviews at rottentomatoes.com