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Bells Are Ringing (1960)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:6
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Holliday's last screen appearance and perhaps her best, reprising her stage role in the Comden and Green musical. Holliday plays a switchboard operator at a Manhattan telephone answering service,... Holliday's last screen appearance and perhaps her best, reprising her stage role in the Comden and Green musical. Holliday plays a switchboard operator at a Manhattan telephone answering service, Susanswerphone, who gets mixed up in her kooky clients' lives, acting as both muse and therapist, eventually falling in love with a client's voice. Early appearance by Stapleton, and a cameo by Holliday's husband, saxophonist Gerry Mulligan. The picture's many musical hits include "Just in Time" and "The Party's Over." Academy Award Nominations: Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. [More]
Starring: Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy
Starring: Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy, Jean Stapleton, Ruth Storey, Frank Gorshin
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Screenwriter: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Producer: Arthur Freed
Composer: Jule Styne
Reviews for Bells Are Ringing
Minnelli's last collaboration with Arthur Freed is an old-fashioned, moderately entertaining musical that suffers from lack of chemistry between Judy Holliday and Dean Martin.
One of Hollywood's last old-fashioned Broadway adaptations, with Holliday as endearing as ever. Not exactly Minnelli's finest, but well worth catching for musicals fans.
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