Barbra Streisand leads this 1969 rom-com from fellow screen legend Gene Kelly. Co-stars Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford and Louis Armstrong.
Dolly Levi (Streisand) is a...
Barbra Streisand leads this 1969 rom-com from fellow screen legend Gene Kelly. Co-stars Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford and Louis Armstrong.
Dolly Levi (Streisand) is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder (Matthau). In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
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43 %30 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
76 %21,272 reviewsAudience score rating
"As in Funny Girl, Miss Streisand does not lip-sync her lyrics very well, which contributes to the detached cool of her performance."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Gene Kelly directed, a long way from Terpsichore apparently, though not, alas, from the Thanksgiving turkey."
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Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader"The Jerry Herman score is unmemorable..."
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Time Out
Time Out"Walter Matthau looks miserable and the film plods dutifully through farcical scenes that can’t fully come to life on-screen."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Emphasis has been placed on extravaganza, when it should really have been placed on getting good performances out of a talented cast."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"How does Hello, Dolly!, an update of The Matchmaker, look today? In a word: campy."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"Streisand is a unique performer, with that inborn vitality which marks great personalities."
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Variety
Variety"(Streisand's) mannerisms are so arch and calculated that one half expects to find a key implanted in her back."
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Time Magazine
Time Magazine"It's an exercise in star turns, surrounded by elephantine blandness."
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TV Guide
TV GuideHello, Dolly! | Details
- Rating
- G,
- Runtime
- 146
- Genre
- Comedy, Romance
- Country of origin
- USA
