Disappointing film despite the all-star cast of Shirley Booth, as Dolly Gallagher Levi, Paul Ford as Horace Vandergelder, Anthony Perkins, Shirley Mac Laine and Robert Morse in important supporting parts.
Miss Booth acts more like she is getting prepared for her television role in "Hazel." I expected Mr. B and his family to appear at any moment. She sheds her blouse wife image from her Oscar-winning performance in "Come Back, Little Sheba" and substitutes a match making woman who now wants to remarry and turns her attention to the tightwad Vandergelder, who is played well by Paul Ford.
Coming off his Oscar nominated performance in "Friendly Persuasion," the year before, Perkins is charming but lacks the comic wit of the role.
This is the same year that MacLaine received a best actress nomination for "Some Came Running." She was fabulous there, but in this film she lacks comic timing. She'd improve in the latter in 1960's "The Apartment."
You can see the lines where the 1964 musical Broadway show and 1969 film came from.
Most of the attention is focused at the elegant Harmonia Gardens. Yet, it becomes tiresome as shown on screen.
Miss Booth acts more like she is getting prepared for her television role in "Hazel." I expected Mr. B and his family to appear at any moment. She sheds her blouse wife image from her Oscar-winning performance in "Come Back, Little Sheba" and substitutes a match making woman who now wants to remarry and turns her attention to the tightwad Vandergelder, who is played well by Paul Ford.
Coming off his Oscar nominated performance in "Friendly Persuasion," the year before, Perkins is charming but lacks the comic wit of the role.
This is the same year that MacLaine received a best actress nomination for "Some Came Running." She was fabulous there, but in this film she lacks comic timing. She'd improve in the latter in 1960's "The Apartment."
You can see the lines where the 1964 musical Broadway show and 1969 film came from.
Most of the attention is focused at the elegant Harmonia Gardens. Yet, it becomes tiresome as shown on screen.