1Zumba Dolly!

Hello hello dear friends and readers from everywhere; especially, from the US, Germany, the UK, Canada, Switzerland, n Mexico 😉

My dear 1Zumba friend, there has been many changes lately, I know that for sure, but it is good to keep your style, coz this what makes you stand out among others, if you know what I mean. 😀

I’m thinking why only few movie musicals attract the crowds. Probably, when it is done so uniquely as this one, it captures your full attention, and gets your real admiration.

I couldn’t leave the room, until the very end. Although it’s a classic musical movie, produced years ago, but yet it was still a masterpiece without doubt, or at least that was how I felt about it.

Watching that movie made wonder how many awards it got. Every single person in that great movie was a real performer and a star without doubt.

Even the few moments during which Louis Armstrong appeared were exceptional. Wow! What a cast, what a choreography, music, decoration, sound, voice, camera rolling, directing! Everything seemed perfect!

I thought the thrill I had when I was a kid, watching that movie, would never happen to me again, but, it was as if I was watching it for the first time. It gave me all the excitement in the world. In fact, the pleasure I had before was less than what I had yesterday. For now being an adult, I can understand more all the efforts and work that were put into that kind of project, to come up with such a stunning musical movie.

The camera never had to follow a single person all the time, and when it was departing the scenes, it was the most smooth and tender closing away from it.

I just love it and willing to see ita thousand times again. What can I say? It was love at first sight, so it grew up with me, I guess.

Oh! I never told you the name yet. It’s called “Hello Dolly”. Sure you know it, and sure you watched it many times as I did, and certainly you appreciate it, like any other person who appreciates art and originality.

Box office: The film grossed $33.2 million at the box office in the United States, earning a theatrical rental (the distributor’s share of the box office after deducting the exhibitor’s cut) of $15.2 million, ranking it in the top five highest-grossing films of the 1969–1970 season. In total, it earned $26 million in theatrical rentals for Fox, against its $25.335 million production budget. Despite performing well at the box office, it still lost its backers an estimated $10 million.

Cast:

Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi

Walter Matthau as Horace Vandergelder

Michael Crawford as Cornelius Hackl

Marianne McAndrew as Irene Molloy

E. J. Peaker as Minnie Fay

Danny Lockin as Barnaby Tucker

Joyce Ames as Ermengarde Vandergelder

Tommy Tune as Ambrose Kemper

Judy Knaiz as Gussie Granger; Ernestina Semple

David Hurst as Rudolph Reisenweber

Fritz Feld as Fritz, German waiter

Richard Collier as Joe, Vandergelder’s barber

J. Pat O’Malley as Policeman in park

Louis Armstrong as Orchestra leader

Tucker Smith (uncredited) as Dancer

Jennifer Gan (uncredited) as Miss Bolivia