1969 · musical · comedy · romance
Hello, Dolly!
Directed by Gene Kelly2h 28m1969
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.
Our read: Hello, Dolly! (1969) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded musical · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle musical / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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