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Hello Dolly! (1969)
DVD (1 discs
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Blu-ray (1 discs
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Digital ✓
Genre: Musical
Aspect Ratio: Wide
Sound: DD 5.1
Academy Awards:
3 Wins , 7 Nominations
Synopsis
A matchmaker who arranges everyone else's romances may be saving the best match for herself. Gene Kelly's "Hello, Dolly!," adapted from Jerry Herman's Broadway musical, itself based on Thornton Wilder's play "The Matchmaker," earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination in 1969 and features one of Barbra Streisand's best-loved performances. In turn-of-the-century New York, Dolly, a spirited widow and professional matchmaker, sets out to find a wife for grumpy, penny-pinching Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau), but she has the perfect match in mind: herself. Meanwhile, she helps Horace's weepy niece win over the lanky young artist (Tommy Tune) he disapproves of, and his two restless clerks (Michael Crawford and Danny Lockin) sneak off for a wild day in Manhattan, where one falls for a pretty milliner (Marianne McAndrew). Highlights include the rousing "Put On Your Sunday Clothes," Streisand's stirring "Before the Parade Passes By," set against a lavish recreation of a New York parade, her show-stopping entrance at the Harmonia Gardens restaurant and a duet with Louis Armstrong on the title song. It won Oscars for its art direction, score and sound.
Cast
Walter Matthau
Barbra Streisand
Michael Crawford
Louis Armstrong
Director
Gene Kelly
Awards & Nominations
- Oscar Nominee: Best Cinematography
- Oscar Nominee: Best Costume Design
- Oscar Nominee: Best Film Editing
- Oscar Nominee: Best Picture
- Oscar Winner: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- Oscar Winner: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Oscar Winner: Best Sound
Keywords
Academy Award Winners
Musical
Romantic Comedy
Technical Specifications
Audio Languages
English, French, Spanish
Subtitle Languages
English, Spanish
Special Features
- Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
- Trailers/TV spots
- 1969 Featurette
- Directing Dolly: Gene Kelly Remembered