Hello, Dolly! (1969 Film)

Barbra Streisand stars in the 1969 film version of Hello, Dolly!, adapted from a much loved Broadway musical. Directed by Gene Kelly, the movie musical won three Academy Awards but is still considered a financial misstep that changed the direction of filmmaking in the 1970s.

In Hello, Dolly!, Horace Vandergelder, played by Walter Matthau, hires matchmaker Dolly Levi, played by Barbra Streisand, to find him a wife. Unknown to Horace, Dolly secretly wants him for herself. She manages to convince Horace to accompany her to New York City, accompanied by Horace's niece, her beau and two of Horace's employees. Once in New York, the hi jinks begin to ensue.http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1009483-hello_dolly/?critic=creamcrop

• Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi

• Walter Matthau as Horace Vandergelder

• Michael Crawford as Cornelius Hackl

• Marianne McAndrew as Irene Molloy

• Danny Lockin as Barnaby Tucker

• E.J. Peaker as Minnie Fay

"Hello, Dolly! is an expensive, expansive, sometimes exaggerated, sentimental, nostalgic, wholesome, pictorially opulent $20 million filmusical."—Varietyhttp://www.variety.com/review/VE1117791589.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

"Miss Streisand is at that point of her career where her public personality invests everything in which she happens to appear with an importance and a resonance that have no relation to the vehicle itself."— Vincent Canby New York Times http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9807E2D6123CEE34BC4052DFB4678382679EDE&partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes