This a great film with outstanding actors and is a take off on, "Hello Dolly". Shirley Booth, (Dolly Gallgher Levi) plays the role as a matchmaker who is always broke but manages to get by one way or the other. Dolly has her eyes set on Horace Vandergelder, (Paul Ford) who is a very rich man and is very tight with his money and pays horrible wages to his employees at his General Store. Cornelius Hackl, (Anthony Perkins) is the chief clerk in the store along with another male co-worker who are very under-paid and actually are given no time off and work seven days a week. This story takes place in Yonkers, N.Y. in the 1800's, and one day, Dolly decides to find a young girl for Horace in New York City who sells ladies hats and is very pretty. Horace says he will go with her and meet this young woman named Irene Molly and possibly ask her to marry him. This is a very romantic and great comedy from 1958 and Paul Ford and Shirley Booth give outstanding performances, don't miss seeing this film.
Review of The Matchmaker
