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Hello, Dolly!

1969

Gene Kelly

Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew ...

6.8

2,190

Musical Film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Concerns itself with Dolly Levi, a New York-based matchmaker who merrily arranges things... like furniture and daffodils and lives. A widow, she has found herself in love with a "half-a-millionaire" Yonkers merchant named Horace Vandergelder. So she proceeds to weave a web of romantic complications involving him, his two clerks, a pretty milliner and her assistant. Eventually, of course, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[Streisand] has become a National Treasure. Casting her as Dolly Levi (...) is rather like trying to display Yellowstone National Park in a one-geyser forest preserve. It doesn't really work"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The Jerry Herman score is unmemorable, Michael Kidd's choreography is foreshortened to accommodate yards of additional dialogue by Ernest Lehman, and the rest is Streisand capably doing her thing"	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Emphasis has been placed on extravaganza, when it should really have been placed on getting good performances out of a talented cast (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Time	"'Hello, Dolly!' could have used those personalities on screen. Instead, it relies almost exclusively on the celebrated eyes, ears, nose and throat of Streisand."	NEU
United States	Variety	"Streisand is a unique performer, with that inborn vitality which marks great personalities. She brings her own special kind of authority. There is a certain inconsistency, or even confusion, in the speech pattern."	NEU

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