Dolly travels to Yonkers, New York to visit Horace. She is currently seeking a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder ( Walter Matthau), the well-known "half-a-millionaire", but it soon becomes clear that Dolly intends to marry Horace herself. Dolly makes a living through matchmaking, and also through arranging all manner of other things, ("Just Leave Everything to Me"). In 1890, all of New York City is excited because the well-known widowed matchmaker Dolly Levi ( Barbra Streisand) is in town ("Call On Dolly"). Although the film eventually broke even, it was not a commercial success. Released on December 16, 1969, by 20th Century Fox, the film won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Score of a Musical Picture and Best Sound and was nominated for a further four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York. The film follows the story of Dolly Levi, a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to find a match for the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. Peaker and Louis Armstrong (whose recording of the title tune had become a number-one single in May 1964). Directed by Gene Kelly and written and produced by Ernest Lehman, the film stars Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Danny Lockin, Tommy Tune, Fritz Feld, Marianne McAndrew, E. Hello, Dolly! is a 1969 American musical romantic comedy film based on the 1964 Broadway production of the same name.
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