
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).... (Full plot summary below)
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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).
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| IdentityTheoryPhil HallIt is a work of great entertainment, a product of an era when people looked up at a screen and saw movies instead of cinema. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyInexplicably nominated for Oscars, Gene Kelly's last musical is a big, bloated, stagy film--despite the presence, charm and voice of Barbra Streisand. |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelEmphasis has been placed on extravaganza, when it should really have been placed on getting good performances out of a talented cast. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeKelly managed to turn out a film that combined the worst elements of canned theater with the sillier excesses of the musical film. |
| Goatdog's MoviesMichael W. Phillips, Jr.It doesn't escape the overproduction trap, not by a long shot. |
| Slant MagazineEric HendersonThe choreography, the performances, the set decoration, the dialogue, everything about Hello, Dolly! is played directly to the back row of the theater, which would be fine on the stage, but on anamorphic widescreen close-ups tends to be more frightening than mirthful. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyGene 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. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenBy 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. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumSplashy Kelly production with a too-young Streisand...but she's stunning. |
| Chicago ReaderPat GrahamGene Kelly directed, a long way from Terpsichore apparently, though not, alas, from the Thanksgiving turkey. |