GCS 027: "Hello Dolly" by Gene Kelly

 

Put on your sunday clothes

 

Gene Kelly, who hasn't heard of the man? Well, appart from being a great dancer and acter he was also an amazing director and this movie can prove it!

Hello Dolly (1969) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064418/

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).

Academy Awards, USA

1970

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Won, Oscar

John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman A. Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, George James Hopkins, Raphael Bretton

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Won, Oscar

Lennie Hayton, Lionel Newman

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Won, Oscar

Jack Solomon, Murray Spivack

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Nominated, Oscar

Ernest Lehman

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Nominated, Oscar

William Reynolds

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Nominated, Oscar

Irene Sharaff

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Nominated, Oscar

Harry Stradling Sr.

 

Fun Facts:

• Louis Armstrong was only on set for a half-day and did his shots in one take.

• The music "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" is used in the movie WALL.E

• During filming, Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau fought bitterly. He disliked her so intensely that he refused to be around her except when required to do so by the scrīpt. He is famously quoted as telling Barbra that she "had no more talent than a butterfly's fart". Interestingly, he is clearly seen in the audience at Barbra's One Voice concert at her Malibu ranch, where invitation-only guests paid $5,000 per couple to help establish the Streisand Foundation, which supports numerous charitable organizations. Apparently, Walter Matthau did not hold grudges.

 

And here is the scene "Put on your sunday clothes"

 

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbBnXryfjg4