I Agree with Barbra that she was too young to play this part BUT, She sang the hell out of the score and now I can ONLY hear her voice singing it!!!! No one else can sing it now...........

The color and crisp picture here in incredible. WOW!

I have always said that Hello Dolly the 1969 musical directed by Gene Kelly with Barbra Streisand and Walter Mathau is the best filmed musical of all time! This was a brilliant piece of work and when you look at the numbers like Put on your Sunday Clothes, Before the parade passes by and the classic Hello Dolly number at the restaurant you can clearly see why. This film needed a dancer to direct and choreograph these numbers and they certainly found it in Gene Kelly, a HUGE TALENT. Selecting Barbra Streisand as Dolly was probably the best casting decision of the 20th Century. She was magnificent! The voice , the acting and the timing were all superlative how she did not receive an oscar nomination for this performance will trouble me to the grave. Matthau too was an idea choice as Horace Vandergelder an absolutely terrific job! Had the Oscars been clever enough to divide their categories as the Golden Globes have this film would have taken home a trophy for sure. Amidst the Covid crises when feeling down and out one day I decided to watch this film version of Hello Dolly and what a lift! This film has passed the test of time and luckily will be with us for generations to come. When I last saw Midnight Cowboy about two years ago I could not help but realize how it appeared so dated and thus has not passed the test of time. Thanks to all those who made Hello Dolly happen. You are to be commended! Bravo!

I can’t believe that this is only now being recommended for me!!

So glad Mrs. Kelly did this documentary. Dolly is one of my favorite movies, & I've seen it around 40 times!

This is the movie when I first saw Barbra Streisand I've been mesmerized ever since.

striesands' hello dolly! is under rated. it is on a grand scale. great acting. great musical numbers. the waiters' dance at harmonia gardens is one of the best dance numbers ever!

I remember watching "Hello Dolly" being filmed as a kid. My two oldest brothers were hired as extras, but they apparently ended up on the cutting room floor as we've never been able to find them in the finished movie. It was interesting to see how they made the landing at Garrison look like 19th century Yonkers. They put fake bricks down on the blacktopped roads (sort of like linoleum) and plastic vines and flowers were attached to all the fences, etc. They didn't just build new porches & decks. They painted them and then carefully "aged" them as well, beating them up and making them look dirty and so on. I found it fascinating. The Golden Eagle served as Vandergelder's store, and the frosted glass in the doors of that building still have the V & G initials etched into them. The depot had fake towers added to it, and old-looking false fronts were added to any newer looking buildings. When they filmed the final wedding scene across the river at West Point, they built a whole sham church that looked really beautiful onscreen, but it actually only had two sides and no interior at all, and it was dismantled as soon as the filming was done. I also remember that after we'd waited around to get autographs, Gene Kelly and Barbra Streisand were both very nice and friendly and signed everything people had brought, but Walter Matthau never came out of his trailer. That's not a criticism, though....just an observation. He may very well have had a good reason not to come out.

This film is criminally underrated and doesn't get the love it deserves, one of the greatest musicals along with My Fair Lady, Sound of Music and all the other greats of the 60s and the last of classic hollywood era.

*This is one of the best musicals ever made. The grandness & the spectacle, the numerous showstopping songs, some of the funniest & cleverest lines, the best cast & crew...!!! Barbra Streisand was pure perfection!!! Thank you Gene Kelly for giving us one of the most entertaining films in Hollywood's history...!!!* ♥ ♥ ♥

"He has this little weak voice" *later becomes the Phantom* LOL

I am pretty sure that nobody would ever think about doing remake of this movie. simply because it is impossible to make it better!

One of the absolutly best all American Family musicals ever made. Streisand is magnificent!

Barbra Streisand is perfect for this film. It's so annoying when talent is not appreciated. Gene Kelly did a great job

Ms Kelly is so articulate pretty and soft spoken . Gene Kelly was an amazing dancer and entertainer by far the most handsome charismatic & masculine dancer on the silver screen.

Watched it recently with my 20 year old, and we enjoyed every single moment...brilliantly directed, great songs..Streisand..Matthau...just..brilliant..

Many critics have said that Hello Dolly has aged well and is a much better film than Barbra thinks it is. For me, it's like a step back in time, very much like an old operetta. As for the Streisand-Matthau fued, it's probably been overplayed. Matthau's mother once appeared on the set and asked Streisand why she often fought with her son. Streisand said "I fight with the people I love." And at her 1986 concert, Matthau was a guest at her home and was shown in the final concert release.

Just watched it (again for the umpteeth time)... and it's sensational!! Every moment of it.

So sad 1969 audiences were over musicals at this point. Y’all had some amazing content presented to you, and you killed the genre.😭

One of the all time greats. I could watch this movie over and over and never tire of it. As I am fan of Kelly I already knew he directed it. It is a testament that his talents were not just limited to song and dance. He was so much more.

I saw this film in the first week of its release in 1969 at Grauman's Chinese and the 70MM, visual clarity, eye-popping color, and multi-track sparkling sound knocked my socks off. I actually believe Barbra did a great job with what is a very lightweight script. She displayed tremendous presence. Ernest Lehman, flush from The Sound of Music, obviously saw himself as a genius screenwriter, but he should have employed a collaborator to sharpen the dialogue, humor, and plot points at key junctures in the story. It could have been a truly, enduringly hilarious and thrilling film and a classic for the ages. Too much hubris I suspect on Lehman's part. What I appreciate about it years later, is the craft of the industry, the production values, the amazing orchestrations and musical direction by Lennie Hayton, and vocal performance by Streisand of Hermann's score that will NEVER be matched. Imagine being 27 years old, with Flatbush poverty roots not that long ago, and you gotta carry the most expensive musical (at the time) ever made? Not sure how many undertalented, overhyped poseurs today could come close to pulling this off. Streisand once said she was uncomfortable with effusive praise, however geniune. She viewed what she did as the job that was EXPECTED of her, no more no less.

I absolutely love this movie. I've probably seen it around 45 times!!

I think it's important to note that it wasn't "Hello, Dolly!" alone that nearly drove 20th Century Fox to bankruptcy; it was the combined losses of "Doctor Dolittle," "Star!" and "Dolly" the pushed the studio to the financial brink. In fact, "Dolly" performed better than the other two films and was actually the fifth highest grossing movie of the year. Many stories abound about how much it earned at the box office; some sources say it took in more than $33 million domestically and came close to breaking even thanks to its overseas engagements. But however you look at it, the film wasn't the profitable enterprise studio executives were hoping for.

Mathau was a total prick to Barbra on that set. It’s hard to imagine the amount of pressure she was under when watching her being so effortlessly masterful.

Barbra camped it up in this movie, which is exactly the way it should be done. She has commented she took a little from Mae West and Scarlet O'Hara in playing the part, which are clearly both there. I got tired of people saying she was miscast --- she WAS the cast. Yes, she was younger than Wilder intended in his original play, but who cares? Her fabulous singing and shear charisma make the movie a joyous thing. I think Barbra herself has badmouthed this movie, but she was great in spite of herself.

When Barbra sings “Hello Dolly” it still sends shivers. I love this movie. Mum took my sister and I to see the movie a good 40 years ago I guess. Mum was a movie buff. She kept up with directors, dancers, actors and actresses in those days. It wasn’t long before the soundtrack joined the family collection and we’d sing along. Love them all for making a musical that I have seen many times and will many more. “On those cold winter nights, Horace, “You can snuggle up to your cash register. “It’s a little lumpy “But it rings.” Dolly Levi. I hope I remembered it correctly.

Even though I was born in 1959 my mother first introduced me to Barbra Striesand when I was no more than 13 years old & today in 2019 all of these movies still live on even my grand children love watching them & here it is 2019

This is a must-see on the big screen. Amazing.

I LOVED it all as a child.And still do :)

Before Dolly, Michael Crawford did “How I Won the War” with John Lennon. He tells a story of John calling him into his hotel room and wanting his opinion on a song he was working on, John sat on the edge of a bed with his guitar and played Strawberry Fields Forever for him

That is one of my all time favourite movies.

Really enjoyed it the colours are so beautiful... I saw it in Dublin on release... loved it and while Barbra was too young... the singing made you forget that... wonderful

One of my favorite movies to watch again and again!

This is quite simply the best musical out there. The movie version is amazing as well. There will never be another like this

One of my top three favorite movie musicals. Saw it as a kid on TV and it was what got me to try out theater in High School.

The quintessential stage to screen musical. Such an amazing film!

I grew up with musicals that were big and lush. I saw this movie for the first time on TV and I thought it was merely OK. But from that day to this I always thought that if I had the chance to see it in 70mm on a big screen I would definitely go. By now it's a bucket list thing.

Thank you for posting this video of Gene Kelly as director “Hello Dolly” - one of my favorite musicals as I love Barbra Streisand and Michael Crawford, and Gene is one of my favorite MGM song/dance movie stars. Incredible that he took on the monumental task of directing a blockbuster musical which continues to be re-enacted in community & high school theaters. Recently saw El Dorado Musical Theater’s production of “Hello Dolly” with such incredible talent of young high school performers. Years ago, saw Carol Channing reprise her Broadway role as the original Dolly at our Sacramento Community Theater. Ms. Channing and I are both alumni (decades apart) of Lowell High School in San Francisco where the school theater is named in her honor. Gene Kelly's final choices of the actors made the characters and the movie so charming & memorable. Who would have known Michael Crawford would famously become the Phantom. And that Barbra's insatiable curiosity of film-making would set the stage for "Yentl". Barbra's Dolly won the heart of Walter Mattheau's curmudgenon Horace Vandergelder (obviously for his money). Love all the songs & incredible dance numbers in Dolly - a very happy musical film for family and all to enjoy, which they just don’t make anymore, unless it’s full of melodrama, death and controversy. Very much enjoyed this vid!

Barbra Streisand was absolute in her wonderful performace of this Broadway classic. I also loved the beautiful dress. Iwish they would release this classic again on the big screen

Such a wonderful, often underrated movie !The wohle design + costums, the spectaculare dance szenes and the incredibly energetic performance with wonderful singing by Streisand give us 2 and a half hours of wonderful, lovable entertainment. Director Gene Kelly did a fabulous job !

Not surprised to see no one dislike this. Have to see the movie now, have not yet, as seeing this is like watching a top Impressionist painting brought to life with music and life.

Man, they must've had so many extras to pay, but that is the way it works. I worked on Dark Knight Rises and we needed 1000 extras for the Wall St. brawl.

I love it! I always can watch it again and again and again! Streisand and Matthau are wonderful actors!

Wow fabulous thanks for posting. Biggest thrill of my cinema going life was seeing a brand new 70mm six track mag print of 'Hello Dolly' on the Cinerama curved screen at Pictureville Bradford in the UK some years a go, just blew today's digital away.

I agree that Barbra was too young for the part, but her performance is absolutely phenomenal! As was said, she was cast before anyone else by an executive who probably completely ignored the point of the show. And I think under those circumstances, Barbra was magnificent.

Barbra was theoretically too young, but her youth brought a much needed energy to the film and she was somehow totally believable, just magic.

Here Streisand was at her peak as an actress and singer; and she was also really funny herself, rather how she has become a bit artificial nowadays. Yes, She was totally miscast here because Dolly is almost twice her age, but the range of her voice, her charisma and ease on the role is undeniable. And about the alleged dispute between her and Matthau, well, she was a highly talented woman, smart and willing to make her own decisions in a world where men were suppose the only to be in command, and she was unapologetic about her opinions and ideas about what could work for her, she still is the same. I guess she asked for choices that she thought were best for her, and as a perfectionist she was then, she also hit hard at Matthau's ego probably without any bad blood intentions, but out of her own ideas of what could be good in the film, as she did in "Funny girl" with William Wilder. Wilder said about Streisand: "she was very professional, very good, a hard worker, too hard at times; she would work day and night if you would let her; she is absolutely tireless". Walter Matthau was a fantastic actor but without ambitions outside of his acting career, as opposed as Streisand was. A few years later, she too began pursuing a career as a director. These things happen anywhere, not just in the movie business. And let's be honest, women are often labeled difficult and tyrannical at times when we, as men, are labeled as talented and hardworking. I love this movie, as much as I hate, I must say, movies like "Mamma mia". This was probably the last great musical of glamorous Hollywood.

I love this movie. The timing of the big musical was off. It was a dying breed. But it's SO WELL DONE, it's stood the test of time.

Love the restaurant hello dolly even just before she arrived.. pure perfection

Michael Crawford's (then) untrained voice was perfect for the role and the way he played it. Innocent and kind of awkward (like Michael himself). 🥰

Great details!!!! Awesome footage. Love this movie and its history.

Patricia Ward KELLY, the presenter of this clip, was married to Gene KELLY. She is one of those rare persons where there is no conflict between the 'real self' and the 'ideal self'. One listens to her, and one doubts not a thing. This is a superb offering 👏 on You Tube.

A truly magnificent film, no matter the critics.

When I was very young, I wanted to visit 20th Century Fox studios for my birthday. Back in those days you could tour the studio in a very small group. It wasn't open with a big bus or tram driving you through. You walked from sound stage to sound stage and onto the old west street in the back lot. That summer they were just finishing filming Hello Dolly. I got to walk down the old New York City street (along the street in the studio) and into the sound stage where the Harmonia Gardens event took place. Yes, the stairs were there and everything in red! The tour guide told us that fresh flowers were shipped in from Hawaii every filming day for the Harmonia Gardens segment. It wasn't until I saw the film that I got to see that scene in it's entirety! What a great way to view a studio! These types of tours were so special and I was one of the lucky ones who got to see what I did. I even saw the REAL Batmobile!!

Beautiful film. Wonderful music and dancing. Gene ought to be proud.

Mrs. Kelly❤ paid a great tribute to the incomparable talent and contributions of her husband Gene. She really understood what Gene did in this film.

Brilliant film musical... well done by ALL involved.. you made a difference. Thank you - Michael, South Africa.

I was very fortunate as a child, my mom heard about the filming of Hello Dolly in Garrison and Cold Springs, NY. (We lived nearby). She and I went and watched some filming of the parade scene (constant cuts and retakes; very boring). I was a cute kid, so someone asked if my mom and I wanted to be extras in the parade scene, so we said yes. Can you see us, no, but we were there. Then after the scenes finished for the day, visitors could walk through the town, past the stores and parks as they were decorated for the movie. A once in a lifetime event.

A beautiful innocent movie. That’s what you call entertainment that’s all we want. Barbra is brilliant.

Though this film was maligned when it first came out, time has shown it to be probably the last of the traditional Hollywood musicals. It came out against the likes of EASY RIDER and other anti-establishment films. As for Streisand being miscast -yes she was young, but she could actually SING the score. Carol Channing's outsized personality would NEVER have worked on screen in this role, no matter her success on stage. So, who should they have cast? Lucille Ball? Anne Bancroft? Rosalind Russell? None of them would have been right. The film of DOLLY has Class in its costumes, sets, Michael Kidd choreography, Gene Kelly direction and a well-chosen cast. I find it amusing when people say Matthau was miscast as Vandergelder. (Excuse me, the role is SUPPOSED to be a cumidgeon and OLDER). I find the performances of the little-known Marianne McAndrew (Irene), Danny Lockin (Barnaby) and Judy Knaiz (Gussie) to be especially endearing. True, Michael Crawford sometimes seems to be channeling Tommy Steel, but even his awkwardness works most of the time. No, DOLLY has stood the test of time quite well. Some people may not like it, but I've never known anyone embarrassed by it.

Walter Matthau disliked Barbra. I think Barbra is mesmerising in this. Just love her, such a talent.

Thanks for posting..a fabulous piece, very informative ! thumbs up !

What a wonderful video clip! Well done, Mrs. Kelly, I enjoyed it very much!!! ❤️

We just took our daughters, who are 9 & 11, to see this musical. They loved it and thought it was the best thing they'd ever seen in a while. My 9 year old was on the edge of her seat the entire time with a big smile on her face! Nothing like introducing a really good musical to your kids! You sure don't see them like this anymore! We loved it!

amazing picture quality you put here ! thanks !

Loved this movie! Had the album when in high school! 1971 🤣👌🔥

Minunat....adevaratii profesioniti,artistii valorosi ne marcheaza viata....

Thanks Pactrica loved the interview!!! :)

I love this film, have seen it so many times.

One of my favorites this an West side story 2 of the best musicals ever made on the big screen

I'm surprised they didn't mention Louis Armstrong.

One of my very favorite movies!!!!!!!!

I remember when this came out, I went to see it 3 times :)

Great posting - thank you. Extremely interesting.

I love this movie . for me this was by far the best musical movie ever and i have to thank Barbra for it with her tremendous talent and out of this world voice she was amazing ! I love to watch it again and again and I m certainly stuck with the final song Hello dolly that sometime out of nowhere comes to my mind! Barbra is the reason I learned how to sing ! She supremely talented in many ways . I simply adore her and the movie

+xNYr Thank you for posting this video. I'd just like to clarify that your information regarding the grosses of Hello, Dolly! is inacurate. The film grossed $33 million domestically, enough to make it the fifth top grossing film of 1969. It grossed another $20 million in foreign markets.

My favorite move of all time. Can’t go wrong with the most talented people of the 20th century!

I love this movie so much! Dolly forever! 💗

I'm normally not so crazy about Barbra, but I loved her in this. It's my impression she knew she was too young for the role, and wisely, decided not to act older, just have fun with it. Gene Kelly's widow provides wonderful insight, although the neck she purchased and displays here is pretty scary.

EVERYTHING about this movie is perfect❤️

a wonderful women and actress !!! .. I love her :)))))

Thanks for posting - I was lucky to see the remnants of the NY parade sets. It was partially being used for NYPD Blues and redressed as San Francisco for Dharma & Greg, but I recognized it instantly - the Ext. of the Harmonia Gardens & the park/fountain were near the Pico front entrance when I worked at Fox in the 90s. -- then sadly, I remember when Fox Sports glass building took over that front corner of the lot. Leave it to the Jocks to stamp out this musical heritage - lol :)

Thank you! I'm a HUGE Michael Crawford Phan, and seeing him in his first BIG Hollywood film was so great and at the tender age of 10, I was hopelessly lost in-love with Cornelius Hackl! *SIGH!*

I watched this movie as a child and loved it so much I bought the vinyl (there were no VCRs those days) . Recently I bought the dvd and even after decades it is still a wonderful and entertaining movie, one of the most perfect movies ever made, the shots are incredible, the colors explode and there is not one single boring scene in it, it´s fun from start to ending and I hope I´ll get the chance to watch it one day in a theater. Kelly did a marvellous job and I think it is the most difficult movie to shoot he´s ever made, even more complicated than An American in Paris. Some critics are telling nonsense. Streisand was wonderful in that part and it doesn´t matter she is younger in the part than it was written. There are movies with actors with the wrong age and I will never understand why Ford hired a 50 year old Jimmy Stewart to play a 20something for The Man who shot Liberty Valance. But Streisand was perfect, especially if we keep in mind that aroud this period it wasn´t that unusal that a young woman married a much older man, especially when it was about money and that´s what the story is about, and the young woman Dolly is hired to set up marriage with Matthaus charakter looks even younger than Streisand but no critics seems to mind or even realize that!!! I am also very happy that the movie finally made a big profit through re-release, tv and VHS DVD sales and I am sure this movie will stay around for a long time to come.

One Of My Favorite Movies🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🥰🥰🥰

7:32 Barbra said in her autobiography that it was her idea to zoom out instead of zooming in, which was much more effective.

This was a beautiful film and I think it was Streisand's 2nd film after Funny Girl. I saw all of her early films and back then since she was such a big star you had to buy the tickets over the phone and they booked you for an evening to view the movie.

That dress is gorgeous! I always wanted to sashay down those stairs like Barbra, clothed in that golden wonder of a gown. I love that entrance scene!

And he did an Spectacular job!!! 👌👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Gene Kelly also learned from Judy Garland ..in his first movie .. he said she taught him a lot about filming 📽️......

Thank you for this. By the time I'd caught the Streisand bug it was a few years after her Funny Girl Oscar #kickassdebut, and by that time, Hello Dolly was considered a disappointment financially, so there wasn't in those pre-videotape recording days, any way to see it and judge for myself. A few years later after scanning the Sunday paper for what movies were playing where and when, Hello Dolly appeared in one theater one weekend, so I caught the bus (several transfers across the metro-megalopolis) to go see it the first time in a by-God walk-in movie theater.

A brilliant multi-tasking star.

Many critics claimed that Barbra was too young to play a Spinster but remember, at the Turn of the Century, women were married at a very young age. Dolly had already been a widow so she did marry young but at the time this story takes place, she could have very easily been seen as a Spinster even though she was a widow. That said, I love Barbra Streisand and Dolly is one of my favorites.

A perfect picture.

This play was my Senior High School senior play for the Music Department. I was neither a member of the choral department or a musician. I was a math geek that wanted to be in my senior play. I asked the music director if I could be in the play and so I auditioned. He had to explain to his class who this non singer was that was singing in his play. All these kids had been singing together for years. I didn't even try for a speaking part. I was boy in back #2. (Oh and dancer on wobbly table #1.) After this final performance I retired never to sing nor dance on a wobbly table. Hello Dolly was the greatest play ever. Oh wait. I brought back boy in back and wobbly table dancer for South Pacific and The Music Man. Then retired.

Strange that there’s no mention of how much everybody loathed each other whilst making this film.. 🤣

I've met Barbra; twice and spoken and laughed. I love you Patricia Ward Kelly. I wish we could meet.

para mi, uno de los mejores musicales clasicos. Lastima que no esten disponinles en blu ray por Peru.

Extraordinary musical. Amazing

Fantastic