Release Date: 4/21/2009 Original Release: 1969 Format: DVD Length: 146 minutes Rating:G (MPAA) Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 024543075790 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainm
In early-20th-century Yonkers, a wealthy local merchant, Horace Vandergelder (played by Walter Matthau), hires matchmaker Dolly Levi (Barbra Streisand) to find a mate for him--but instead she decides to win him over for herself. His life is further complicated by his young niece, Ermengarde, who is determined to wed an artist Horace finds entirely unsuitable, and by his two hapless employees, who against Horace's wishes leave work to venture into New York so each can kiss a girl. Miserly, curmudgeonly, irascible Horace finds that matters have gotten completely out of his control--and the only person who seems to know exactly what is going on is the widowed Dolly Levi. The film is based on a succession of source material, beginning with the 1835 British play A DAY WELL SPENT by John Oxenford, Thornton Wilder's 1938 play THE MERCHANT OF YONKERS, and Wilder's successful 1954 adaptation of his own play, renamed THE MATCHMAKER, rewritten for Ruth Gordon and then made into a film by the same name in 1958 starring Shirley Booth. In 1964, Carol Channing starred in the story's next incarnation on Broadway: Michael Stewart's play HELLO, DOLLY! on which this film's screenplay is directly based.
DVD Features
Region 1 Keep Case Single Side - Dual Layer Letterbox - 2.35 Widescreen - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English Mono - Spanish, French Additional Release Material: Featurette: 1969 Featurette Trailers: 1. HELLO DOLLY! Retrospective Trailer 2. Spanish Trailer 3. "Fox Flix" Trailers
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