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  • 1969
  • G
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 2 h 26 m
  • 1969
  • G
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 2 h 26 m

Summary Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.

Directed By: Gene Kelly

Written By: Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Lehman, Johann Nestroy

  • 1969
  • G
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 2 h 26 m
  • 1969
  • G
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 2 h 26 m

Hello, Dolly!

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
51
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.

Directed By: Gene Kelly

Written By: Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Lehman, Johann Nestroy

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
51
27% Positive
3 Reviews
73% Mixed
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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27% Positive
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73% Mixed
8 Reviews
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70
The whole archaic big musical circus here surrounds a Happening -- Barbra Streisand -- and it's all worth seeing in order to see her.
By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW
63
Dolly lost a fortune and helped to all but kill the genre, yet this famed musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker is more fun than its rep indicates. [15 Nov 2005, p.8D]
By Mike Clark FULL REVIEW
60
It's an exercise in star turns, surrounded by elephantine blandness. The supporting cast look, and act, like refugees from Disney or Oral Roberts University, handpicked not to ruffle the star.
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50
It relies almost exclusively on the celebrated eyes, ears, nose and throat of Streisand. Her musicianship remains irreproachable. But her mannerisms are so arch and calculated that one half expects to find a key implanted in her back.
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50
Only Streisand's second movie, but already (as co-star Matthau grumbled) she was hogging the screen. The trouble is that there isn't much to hog in this elephant which gave Star! a helping hoof in burying the Hollywood musical.
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50
Gene Kelly, who directed two classic musicals with Stanley Donen, here acts like a caretaker of a big, valuable property. He and Michael Kidd, his choreographer, have protected everything Gower Champion gave the original, and added nothing to the heritage of the musical screen except statistics.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
40
Gene Kelly directed, a long way from Terpsichore apparently, though not, alas, from the Thanksgiving turkey.
By Pat Graham FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.6
40% Positive
2 Ratings
60% Mixed
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60% Mixed
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Production Company Chenault Productions, Twentieth Century Fox
Release Date Dec 16, 1969
Duration 2 h 26 m
Rating G
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 5 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 3 Nominations

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