Hello, Dolly! (film)
Hello, Dolly is a 1969 American romantic comedy musical film based on the Broadway production of the same name. The film follows the story of Dolly Levi a strongwilled matchmaker, as she travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a match for the miserly wellknown unmarried halfamillionaire Horace Vandergelder. In doing so she convinces his niece, his nieces intended, and Horaces two clerks to travel to New York City.
In 1890, all of New York City is excited because widowed, brassy Dolly Levi is in town Call On Dolly. Dolly makes a living through matchmaking and numerous sidelines Just Leave Everything to Me. She is currently seeking a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder, the wellknown halfamillionaire, but it becomes clear that Dolly intends to marry Horace herself. Dolly travels to Yonkers, New York to visit Horace. Ambrose Kemper, a young artist, wants to marry Horaces weepy niece, Ermengarde, but Horace opposes this because Ambroses vocation does not guarantee a steady living. Horace, who is the owner of Vandergelders Hay and Feed, explains to his two clerks, Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, that he is going to get married because It Takes a Woman to cheerfully do all the household chores. He plans to travel to New York City to propose to Irene Molloy, who owns a hat shop there. Dolly arrives in Yonkers and sends Horace ahead to the city. Before leaving he tells Cornelius and Barnaby to mind the store.Cornelius decides that he and Barnaby need to get out of Yonkers. Dolly knows two ladies in New York they should call on Irene Molloy and her shop assistant, Minnie Fay. She enters Ermengarde and Ambrose in the upcoming polka competition at the fancy Harmonia Gardens Restaurant in New York City, so Ambrose can demonstrate his ability to be a bread winner to Uncle Horace. Cornelius, Barnaby, Ambrose, Ermengarde and Dolly take the train to New York Put on Your Sunday Clothes. Irene and Minnie open their hat shop for the afternoon. Irene does not love Horace Vandergelder and declares that she will wear an elaborate hat to impress a gentleman Ribbons Down My Back. Cornelius and Barnaby arrive at the shop and pretend to be rich. Horace and Dolly arrive and Cornelius and Barnaby hide. Minnie screams when she finds Cornelius hiding in an armoire. Horace is about to open the armoire himself, but Dolly searches it and pronounces it empty. After hearing Cornelius sneeze, Horace storms
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