Hello, Dolly! 1969 123movies

Watch: Hello, Dolly! 1969 123movies, Full Movie Online – A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire,” Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City. In New York, she fixes Vandergelder’s clerks up with the woman Vandergelder had been courting, and her shop assistant (Dolly has designs of her own on Mr. Vandergelder, you see)..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 15,622
	45% | RottenTomatoes
	51/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 287 Popularity: 13.161 | TMDB

Reviews:

“All the facts about you are insults!”
One of the last of the lavish Old Hollywood musicals. The performances are all fine, with Streisand the obvious standout, vocally and otherwise. Michael Crawford is a little goofy but I guess he’s supposed to be. He’s a little Dick Van Dyke-ish at times. Your mileage may vary on whether that’s a good thing or not. I was less interested in his plot than the one involving Streisand and Walter Matthau. Pretty much anytime Babs is on screen things are much more lively. I say this as someone who isn’t her biggest fan, but she really does own this film. The direction from legend Gene Kelly is solid and appropriately old-school for its time. It really feels like a throwback to the MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s, with great sets and costumes and big production numbers. The cinematography is also very beautiful. So it’s a great-looking movie with an upbeat tempo throughout and some very nice songs. The length is the biggest negative, and I did find myself checking my watch during a couple of the lengthy Crawford segments. But it’s still a good movie with a lot to recommend, especially for fans of older musicals.

The casting was all wrong
Just as if you have a bad Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, the entire play will fall flat, if you have a bad Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly, the musical won’t be any good. This Broadway musical is a highly sought after role for middle aged women, a tour-de-force they hope to play, usually to warm up for or coast after playing Mama Rose in Gypsy. Barbra Streisand would have been an excellent choice for the famous matchmaker, except in 1969 she was too young. Dolly Levi is supposed to be a middle-aged widow who sings the show-stopping song “Before the Parade Passes By” because it’s a metaphor for her life, not a twenty-seven-year-old woman with impeccable makeup and a hair color that’s as flattering as her clothes.

Unfortunately, the lack of a gray wig on Babs is not the only flaw in Hello, Dolly! Michael Crawford plays Cornelius, and it takes an enormous amount of suspension of disbelief to buy into the love story between him and Marianne McAndrew. In the original film The Matchmaker, starring Shirley Booth, the young romantic leads were played by Shirley MacLaine and Anthony Perkins. Anthony is handsome and sweet, so it makes sense that Shirley M considers giving up a fortune for true love. Michael Crawford is bumbling, gangly, and almost acts like he’s mentally off. Plus-sorry Phantom of the Opera fans-but his voice leaves much to be desired. Ironically, his romantic companion did have her voice dubbed!

Walter Matthau plays Babs’s love interest, and there’s no feasible reason why she would ever want him, let alone when she’s so young and still could have any number of men she wanted. He’s unattractive, incredibly grumpy, walks through his song like it’s the last thing in the world he wants to be doing, and acts like he hates the very sight of his pursuer-which, he actually did. Rumor has it that he hated Barbra Streisand so much he actually refused to kiss her! So, my great question, as it seems to be with everyone in this movie, is why was he cast? Gene Kelly directed this movie, and while he had enormous attention to detail in the costumes, production designs, and choreography, he didn’t seem to have a great eye for his cast. Why didn’t he pick his old sailor-suit buddy Frank Sinatra for Walter Matthau’s part? He would have been the right age, he could sing without making audiences cringe, and Jerry Herman could have written him a couple of extra songs-as he did for Barbra. It would have been totally believable why Babs moves Heaven and Earth to be with him, and when he sings his song “It Takes a Woman” it would have been incredibly cute for the Guys and Dolls star to sing another ode to the fairer sex.

I know I’ve been dissing this movie adaptation quite a bit, but there are some good parts to it. Obviously, if Hello, Dolly! is one of your favorite musicals, you’re going to want to rent the movie. Barbra Streisand in her gold dress during the title song is a pretty famous image. And Barbra does have a wonderful voice, so it’s fun to watch her take control of the screen, especially in the show-stopping “So Long Dearie”. Also, if you’re a fashion fanatic, you’ll probably want to rent this one just to look at Irene Sharaff’s gorgeous dresses. Besides that, this is one of those movies you’ll watch once to say you did and then not really want to show your friends.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 26 min (146 min)
Budget 24000000
Revenue 33208099
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Director Gene Kelly
Writer Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Lehman
Actors Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
Country United States
Awards Won 3 Oscars. 4 wins & 13 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System), Mono (35 mm prints), DTS 70 mm (70mm re-release)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1 (35 mm prints), 2.20 : 1 (negative ratio) (70 mm prints)
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 4,070 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 65 mm
Cinematographic Process Todd-AO
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic), 70 mm, 8 mm (anamorphic)