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The Matchmaker (1958)
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14 July 1959 (West Germany) morePlot:
Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Jennifer Lewis to Star in Hello Dolly! at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater March 7-29 (From BroadwayWorld.com. 12 February 2009, 9:10 PM, PST)
Myers And Evans To Headline Hello, Dolly! In Concert 2/14
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 26 January 2009, 5:27 PM, PST)
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One can see why it was prime material for a musical treatment. moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Shirley Booth | ... | Dolly 'Gallagher' Levi | |
| Anthony Perkins | ... | Cornelius Hackl | |
| Shirley MacLaine | ... | Irene Molloy | |
| Paul Ford | ... | Horace Vandergelder | |
| Robert Morse | ... | Barnaby Tucker | |
| Perry Wilson | ... | Minnie Fay | |
| Wallace Ford | ... | Malachi Stack | |
| Russell Collins | ... | Joe Scanlon | |
| Rex Evans | ... | August | |
| Gavin Gordon | ... | Rudolph | |
| Torben Meyer | ... | Alex, Headwaiter, Harmonica Club | |
| Rhubarb | ... | Himself - a Cat |
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)Fun Stuff
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Basis for the musical "Hello, Dolly", first on Broadway in 1964 and later on film: Hello, Dolly! (1969). moreQuotes:
Irene Molloy: Mr. Vandergelder is a substantial man they tell me, and very well-liked.Cornelius Hackl: Oh, he's a lovely man.
Irene Molloy: And a large circle of friends.
Cornelius Hackl: Oh, yes indeed. Five or six.
Barnaby Tucker: Five.
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"Hello, Dolly!", that marvelously overblown, elephantine 1969 movie musical starring Barbra Streisand, can trace its cinematic origins to this charming film, which, in its stage incarnation, had enjoyed a successful Broadway run a few years before.
Paramount wisely employed the inimitable Shirley Booth to head the cast and, perhaps since she was no guarantee of big box office, despite her Academy Award for "Come Back, Little Sheba" (1952), they filmed it in VistaVision but not Technicolor. Too bad, because it's nicely mounted, smartly directed and well cast, with Paul Ford deserving of particular praise. His wonderfully humorous Horace Vandergelder makes one wish he'd been allowed to play the role again opposite Streisand (though, to be sure, he would have appeared to be much too old for Barbra, who was only twenty-seven years old when Twentieth practically bankrupted itself filming that monumentally successful Broadway bonanza.)
Anyway, this version is genuinely charming and always repays a re-viewing. Its equivalent from a major American motion picture production company is almost inconceivable today, what with audiences whose tastes have been so brutally coarsened. Thank goodness there's a video version to pop into the VCR for those of us who'd occasionally like to take a bit of a holiday from all the troubles that beset us now.