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Bells Are Ringing

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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

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Mar 15, 2005

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  • An answering-service operator (Judy Holliday) falls in love with the man she's known only as a voice on the telephone. Dean Martin and Jean Stapleton co-star.
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    Has too much plot and not enough music or comedy.

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    09/13/09
    Dennis Schwartz
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    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.

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    07/27/09
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    03/26/09
    David Mermelstein
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    Inventive, emotionally involving and visually stylish musical.

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    Michael E. Grost
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    a wonderful film

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    07/21/06
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    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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    Never translates into anything cinematic.

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    No review available.

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    Frank Swietek
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    One of the most undervalued of musicals.

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