Synopsis
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
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Cast
- Barbra StreisandDolly Levi
- Walter MatthauHorace Vandergelder
- Michael CrawfordCornelius Hackl
- Marianne McAndrewIrene Molloy
- Danny LockinBarnaby Tucker
- E.J. PeakerMinnie Fay
- Joyce AmesErmengarde
- Tommy TuneAmbrose Kemper
- Judy KnaizGussie Granger
- David HurstRudolph Reisenweber
Recommendations
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Variety
An expensive, expansive, sometimes exaggerated, sentimental, nostalgic, wholesome, pictorially opulent $20 million filmusical [from the 1964 Broadway production, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman] with the charisma of Barbra Streisand in the title role. - 70
The New Yorker
The whole archaic big musical circus here surrounds a Happening -- Barbra Streisand -- and it's all worth seeing in order to see her. - 63
USA Today
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] - 60
Empire
Emphasis has been placed on extravaganza, when it should really have been placed on getting good performances out of a talented cast. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 50
LarsenOnFilm
By the time Streisand takes over the entire movie with the title number, in which the massive waitstaff of an upscale restaurant gathers to sing and dance her praises, I couldn’t help but wonder what all the fuss was about. - 50
The New York Times
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. - 50
Time Out
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.
