The last of the great American musicals. A greatly underrated, beautiful film.

Her last note is nothing but spectacular. Sends chills.

❤I dissolved in tears. People creating something that will live on ...the magnificent life and talent of our Barbra. She is a complete success story in every way.

I don't care what anybody else thinks, Hello Dolly is a BRILLIANT musical movie.

Wow that was over 50 years ago. Barbra Streisand is a phenomenal talent. Rest In Peace Walter Matthau.

Barbra was so beautiful here. I listen to her sing "Before the parade passes by" whenever I feel down and life seems to have passed me by. Then I feel better again and life is not that bad. " With the rest of them, with the best of them, I can hold my head up high." The best lyrics of a song.

An absolutely glorious ALL AMERICAN movie musical classic! Barbra Streisand is spectacular!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wow-- Gene Kelly was wonderful-- so talented, intelligent, gifted. Hello Dolly is a perfect movie. 🏆👏

Every minute of this magnificient movie was complete entertainment. Gene Kelly put his heart and soul into this superb spectacle.

Watched it since i was a kid, only now do i fully appreciate just how technical that scene must have been!!!!

Her new memoir brought me here. ❤️

My favorite I watch it over and over again. It never gets old

It has aged really well. Up until a few years ago, only the scenes with Streisand interested me: she's onscreen only about a third of the time, and you can't take your eyes off her. That's the hallmark of a star. But the script if well-constructed, the songs are wonderful, and the movie really has legs. Wish they had used more of the dialogue from the play in the movie's restaurant scene, which gives Dolly more lines. $65 million smackeroos was a LOT of money back then. But it did recoup the cost eventually, and turned a profit when it played on TV. Don't know where Barbra got those gestures, but she is a wonder to behold.

Every time I see this I can't help but realize this type of thing will NEVER happen again - it will always be a handful of people and CGI to fill in the background.

Such a light-hearted, sumptuous, total escape, pick-me-up, wonderful movie. Gene Kelly, Barbra Streisand, New York, music, laughter, parades-- what's not to like?! 🏆👏🎶😀🎈

“Let’s go people, we’re gonna loose this light” Genuine theater!!!

One of my favourite moves in my teen years ...she makes this movie great beautiful voice acting and spot on comic timing wonderful

Great uplifting entertainment. We can use more movies like this now, more than ever. Streisand made it easy to be a loyal fan for over fifty years.

Loved this behind-the-scenes! Wonderful, wonderful!!!!!

I was just a kid when I saw this picture in the theater. It was quite an extravaganza! I’ve heard that Streisand never liked it, but I think it’s a great movie that’s held up very well over 50 years.

LOVE her FOREVER!!!

Anyone else notice that when they pulled the red and white banners out that it created an American Flag?

To say magnifique... I think it's too little for such a performance. Pure Perfection.

They don't make 'em like this any more!

And a young Michael Crawford, for a few seconds. Our Phantom of the Opera. ❤️

A Great Production! Thank you Gene!

Such an ambitious scene to film with such a huge cast and so many moving parts.. and no CGI!

i worked at 20th century-fox in licensing & merchandising from 1991-1997. seeing the parade street as it was for HD versus working there is such a tremendous treat! thank you for posting this!! i have so many fond memories of my days on the lot (and up in the fox plaza tower)!! heavy sigh....

Seeing this gives me goosebumps! Thank you so much for uploading. 😃

What a magnificent scene that was out of that wonderful movie. And I think me, my sister, and mom had to reserve our seats in the movie theatre too!!!

Me encanta esta película, la vería muchas veces sin aburrirme. La adoro

Barbra is just AMAZING 😍❤️😍❤️

I love this musical so much! It's so wonderful!

Thank you for posting, I have loved this film since I was eight years old, when the film was released. "All aboarddddddddddddddddddddddddd..."

I've seen it many times and love it! In fact, when I was a little girl I toured 20th Century Fox Studios and all the streets and sets were there for Hello Dolly. I got to see the sound stage and the STAIRS where Dolly enters the Harmonia Gardens. Wow! I will always feel especially lucky that I got to see the sets first hand!

A nod to my Dad, John De Cuir, who designed the film, and won an Oscar for it. 🤩

Yes, complete entertainment. I enjoy everything I See it. The cast, greatest for each role. Funny, Barbra, Walter, and Michael, each so young. We all grow older. But still doing young at heart. Thanks for sharing

These were the days when you could buy a full color program in the lobby with pictures, stories and captions about the production. I poured over mine for hours. Wish I still had it.

My goodness, all those costumes!

Loved the behind the scenes! Thanks!

First Telecast in the USA was Winter 1975 , CBS ,

Greatest Yenta ever.

Talk about grand parade. They outdid themselves. Even our real parades are not as good as these. Superb. Best directing, cinematography, musical, choreography. Oscar academy awards for best film, music, director, etc. Etc. Should get it all.

This wonderful movie was Slow burner, now it's a classic.

Having spent 25 years working at 20th CENTURY-FOX, but after the filming of HELLO DOLLY... I remember that great exterior sprawling 15 acre set that was still mostly intact up to the early 1990's. Some of those years I was among other things their 'unofficial' studio historian... I saw the changes and the end of the great studio system era. This behind-the-scenes featurette which the studios used to impress the potential exhibitors looks great re-mastered like the movie itself. Unfortunately the movie bombed despite some iconic musical numbers... but then so many movie musicals failed with the public during the 1960's and early 70's... STAR, DARLING LILI, PAINT YOUR WAGON, CAMELOT, LOST HORIZON and SWEET CHARITY. With Vietnam and the whole counter-culture Hippie scene, the timing was way off - Broadway hits don't necessarily guarantee HOLLYWOOD blockbusters, specially in this case when fans demanded Carol Channing for the lead she played on stage. "Before The Parade Passes By" number featured the largest physical exterior set ever constructed on a HOLLYWOOD studio lot, and in this case the front lot! Staggering numbers -most expensive musical at the time, over 3,000 extras plus marching bands etc., Streisand and Matthau didn't get along at all... director Gene Kelly did a great job, but again the timing was off! Great posting - I have the original movie souvenir program, back when these movies played the big city flagship theaters.

...what a marvelous film!!! ...so nice to have all these segments... ...really happy to watch... 💕💕🎶🎵🎤🎤🎤🎵🎶💕💕

❤Holy God. This was spectacular.

REally cool! Thank you!

Beautiful documentary film. Super nice high resolution and color fidelity.

Love this movie.

Me encanta ! Hello Dolly y la Novicia Rebelde son las 2 más importantes películas musicales

Miraculously accomplished - and with no computer graphics.

what an interesting thing to see after all these years and the film clarity is amazing

As a 50+ years fan, i don't believe have seen this hi-res quality video of this behind the scenes making of HD. I'm pretty sure i have this on VHS tape, but in low quality, that was passed around by hardcore fans back in the 80's. They put a lot of the 24-million-dollar budget into the parade scene. As I recall, 20 Century Fox exces were very ticked off at director Gene Kelly at the poor filming of the parade scene. In some ways the true majesty of the event was not fully captured with the 2-3 static cameras used - and the one boom-lift. But back then, they didn't have the digital effects where they could do long shots of the parade and add digital old New York. They had to keep all shots tight on the Burbank New York Street set. There is a quick shot in that scene where a 60s car can be seen in the background. Just imagine if they had drones filming the scene in hi def Panavision! Just have to wait for the remake, starting Lady Gaga when she's in her 50s.

Now THAT s a trailer! What's the next showtime! Lol

Thanks for posting 😍

In 1970, friends took me to Garrison N.Y., one of the filming locations for this film. We could still see cobblestones painted on the street!

Brilliant film my favorite of Barbra Streisand.

Absolutely amazing

Qué gran película!!

I think I can tell which movie is good and which is bad. This version of HELLO, DOLLY! should have earned Streisand another Oscar, and should have made a lot more money at the Box Office. I don't care what other people think --- I regard this one as an equivalent to THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The Oscar Academy of that year was both blind and deaf, or what?

Fantastic!!!✨

Super to see - thank you

love

The lady that shows up at the beginning is so incredibly beautiful! She looks like one of those porcelain dolls!

Weird Trivia : The Harmonia Gardens grand staircase/ set was demolished and re-dressed for the end scene of Beneath the Planet of the Apes !! (1970) . It looked melted!

BRAVA!!! BRAVA DIVA!!!

*Even Gene Kelley well understood the need for this picture to be shot in large format 70 mm. I would love to see the "Hello Dolly" scene in full screen Todd-AO 70 mm presentation. Those Mitchell BFC 65 mm studio motion picture cameras are extremely rare. There were only 8 of them world wide in use on various big budget extravaganzas, like "the Sound of Music," and "Hello Dolly," "South Pacific," "Porgy & Bess," "Star," for most of the late 1950's through to the early 1970's. One of the 8 original Mitchell BFC 65 mm studio cameras (No.4) was sold on Ebay last year, but it was not published for how much it's final selling price was.*

When I first came to Los Angeles in the early '80s, most of the outdoor set was still up at 20th Century Fox; bits of it are still there. The park where they filmed "Dancing," just to the right of where you drove up to enter the studio from Pico Boulevard, is an office building now. "Hello, Dolly!" was an underappreciated movie in its time (No nudity? No psychedelic drug sequence? No rock songs? What kind of 1969 movie is that?), but it's started to get its due in recent years. It's even in profit now.

Wow.

Can't believe Babs is 80!

Say what you will about the old studio system, those talented people, and the shrewd producers who knew what the public liked, turned out films that always stand out to the test of time.

Mary Poppins, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Sound of Music and Hello Dolly are my favorite musicals. Dolly and Poppins hold up best. The one minor thing that always took a little of the magic away from me from Dolly was the color of the spectacular outdoor day scenes. As a kid I couldn't figure it out. The beauty of the Sound of Music and the color magic that can only be achieved in an indoor studio like Poppins. Now as an adult I can see the LA smog of the 60's acting like a dulling filter from the California sun. To bad it couldn't have been made in the 40s or 50s but then there would be no Barbara. For her I'll take the smog!

OMFG! I have got to see this movie again. And Again. AND AGAIN!

This was probably the best production in the movie. A lot went into this and it has a great song to go with it. Not sure what band actually played the song. Also the closing scene is pretty well staged.

Mim fez chorar de emoção onde os filmes eram tão puro,de um esplendor de beleza de canas o vestuário,e tanta alegria que o mundo precisa nesse momento é tão difícil fazer o mundo mais feliz a vocês que mim trasporta onde era mais fácil viver com pouco mais com muito amor saúde paz no coração só fala uma palavra GRATIDÃO de coração

Most of the movie was filmed in Poughkeepsie...cold Spring...Garrison in.Putnam County New York....

The feather head dress in the "Hello, Dolly" number was not feathers. It was tiny beads attached to wires. Apparently, the feathers danced around too much. Beads was the solution. The head dress was 30 pounds and the gold dress was 40 pounds. There was an article in "Look" magazine which states this.

Was it very difficult to obtain permission to use this footage?

A true behind the scenes documentary might be interesting - the open hostility between the co-stars, the choreographer, the designers, the director has been documented elsewhere.

Best of the best, something to be treasured as American folk history

Fascinating, high quality footage! Although....serious John Wayne Gacy vibe at 0:46......yeeeee-iiiiiiikes!

Amazing 😉

Aquele tempo felizmente não tinha tela verde e o terrível CGI, era tudo feito com arte e raça e não na frente de um computador......

Gene Kelly, we are not worthy.

Fabulash!

Is that Cary Grant in the Orange shirt, turning around?

As a gay man, I'm embarrassed. Yes, always loved Barbara Streisand. It was a given at birth at the same time as the birth certificate was issued. But I always to this day, idolized Gene Kelly. I danced every step like him in my growing up years. How....HOW did I forget he was the master behind this classic. Shame. Thanks for the reminder.

My very favorite MOVIE!......followed by My Fair Lady!

I don’t think Barbra Streisand is miscast in this film, she’s not too young to play this kind of character and no one could sing it better but there should have been script and lyric changes to better suit her youth - “Look at the old girl now” etc. The main thing is the script is far too long and all over the place, the whole film is overblown, these huge scenes are impressive but they’re not charming or involving, the second rank of the cast lack star quality. At just the same time Oliver! was a tremendous smash hit because it’s very charming, the song sequences are staged inventively, you really feel you’re in Dickens’ Victorian London and the casting is spot on, one memorable character after another with great lines. Later a much smaller, more intimate musical like Cabaret was a smash hit too.

THE BEST HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL OF ALLL TIME..................................SSSSSSOOOOPPPPEEERRRBBBB!!!!!!!!

Gene Kelly the best Musical Producer ever. This is how this Magnificient and Spectacular Movie shows Splendid in each second of its scenes

I think there's a scene with a plane in it....

BA BA streinsten🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

Michael Crawford is a disaster. E.j. Peaker and the girl who played Malloy. The dance in the park didn’t help either. Streisand comes out saving this picture. Visit garrison on the Hudson if you can. Beautiful little enclave mostly unchanged. A few lucky residents.

Well Gene did do a magnificent job directing this bomb but it just wasn't right simply because Barbra at 27 was playing a woman of 58years. Carol Channing was outraged and let it be known. Sad seeing actor Danny Lockin who was murdered in 1977, played Barnaby. Great talent. Barbra was Barbra and her singing was superior but she just couldn't pull off Dolly.

Streisand and Matthau were miscsst.

to be honest...a truly crap film....

Tommy Tune is too tall...distracting, he should dance alone.

bwabwa....proving she cant sing...