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* AntiHero: Dolly, she is a good, friendly, warm hearted woman, and her favorite hobby/career and intentions are to help others find love and happiness. In fact a part of her plan is helping pretty much the entire cast finding real love instead of arranged marriages, including herself. How she accomplishes this however, is through multiple lies and deciet.

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* AntiHero: Dolly, she Dolly is a good, friendly, warm hearted woman, and her favorite hobby/career and intentions are to help others find love and happiness. In fact a part Part of her plan is helping pretty much the entire cast finding find real love instead of arranged marriages, including herself. How she accomplishes this this, however, is through multiple lies and deciet.deceit.
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This famous 1964 [[TheMusical musical]], adapted by Jerry Herman (music) and Michael Stewart (book) from a Creator/ThorntonWilder play, ''Theatre/TheMatchmaker'' (itself based on an Austrian play, ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'', which was in turn based on an earlier English play, ''A Day Well-spent''), tells the tale of matchmaker and zany manipulator Dolly Levi (originally played by Creator/CarolChanning on Broadway). It's the turn of the 20th century in New York City, and after years of making matches for others she's out to make one for herself with the above-mentioned merchant Horace Vandergelder. In the process of doing so, she helps three other couples get together.

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This famous 1964 [[TheMusical musical]], adapted by Jerry Herman (music) and Michael Stewart (book) from a Creator/ThorntonWilder play, ''Theatre/TheMatchmaker'' (itself based on an Austrian play, ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'', which was in turn based on an earlier English play, ''A Day Well-spent''), tells the tale of matchmaker and zany manipulator Dolly Levi (originally played by Creator/CarolChanning on Broadway). It's the turn of the 20th century in New York City, and after years of making matches for others she's out to make one for herself with the above-mentioned merchant Horace Vandergelder. In the process of doing so, she helps three other couples get together.



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The movie is notable for being the first major motion picture to see release on the [[UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} VHS]] format.

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The movie is notable for being the first major motion picture to see release on the [[UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} [[Platform/{{VCR}} VHS]] format.

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The 1969 [[TheFilmOfThePlay film version]] was directed by none other than Creator/GeneKelly and starred Creator/BarbraStreisand as Dolly and Creator/WalterMatthau as Horace. Modern audiences, however, will probably recognize footage from the movie due to its [[RevivalByCommercialization use]] in the Creator/{{Pixar}} film ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. This movie is notable for being the first major motion picture to see release on the [[UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} VHS]] format.

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The 1969 [[TheFilmOfThePlay film version]] was directed by none other than Creator/GeneKelly and starred Creator/BarbraStreisand as Dolly and Creator/WalterMatthau as Horace. Modern audiences, however, will probably recognize footage from the movie due to its [[RevivalByCommercialization use]] in the Creator/{{Pixar}} film ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. This

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* TheCameo: Music/LouisArmstrong as the band leader in the Harmonia Gardens, performing the title song (which he was already associated with from making a hit recording of it around the time the stage version debuted).

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* TheCameo: Music/LouisArmstrong as the band leader in the Harmonia Gardens, Gardens performing the title song (which song, which he was already associated with from making a hit recording of it around the time the stage version debuted).debuted.
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* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Hello, Dolly!''

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* IllTimedSneeze: When Minnie finds Cornelius hiding in the closet, Dolly is able to reassure Vandergelder that there isn't actually someone there. But when a tremendous sneeze comes from inside the closet, she has to bow to the inevitable and admit that there is one.



* LastChorusSlowDown: The title song. Twice.

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* LastChorusSlowDown: The title song.song slows the final chorus down. Twice.



* TheMatchmaker: Dolly.

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* %%* TheMatchmaker: Dolly.



* SelfMadeMan: Horace Vandergelder.

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* %%* SelfMadeMan: Horace Vandergelder.



* SneezeOfDoom: When Minnie finds Cornelius hiding in the closet, Dolly is able to reassure Vandergelder that there isn't actually someone there. But when a tremendous sneeze comes from inside the closet, she has to bow to the inevitable and admit that there is one.
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* WidowWoman: Dolly Levi, whose lingering connections, friendships, and independent income from her marriage to her late husband put her in an interesting place in society.

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* WidowWoman: Dolly Levi, whose lingering connections, friendships, and independent income from her marriage to her late husband put her in an interesting place in society.
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* PlayingGertrude: In the movie, 25-year-old Creator/BarbraStreisand plays middle-aged Dolly.
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* SecondLove: Dolly, Horace and Irene Molloy are all widowed and seeking to remarry for practical purposes, never suspecting they might actually find a love match.
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* PetTheDog: Horace reveals that he made his fortune in part by doing a series of good deeds. It's not completely clear if they were all done with ulterior motives though, but his talk of how he was different in his youth means they may not have been.
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The 1969 film version was directed by none other than Creator/GeneKelly and starred Creator/BarbraStreisand as Dolly and Creator/WalterMatthau as Horace. Modern audiences, however, will probably recognize footage from the movie due to its [[RevivalByCommercialization use]] in the Creator/{{Pixar}} film ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. This movie is notable for being the first major motion picture to see release on the [[UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} VHS]] format.

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The 1969 [[TheFilmOfThePlay film version version]] was directed by none other than Creator/GeneKelly and starred Creator/BarbraStreisand as Dolly and Creator/WalterMatthau as Horace. Modern audiences, however, will probably recognize footage from the movie due to its [[RevivalByCommercialization use]] in the Creator/{{Pixar}} film ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. This movie is notable for being the first major motion picture to see release on the [[UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} VHS]] format.
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* VillainSong: Though Horace Vandergelder is more of a resentful stick-in-the-mud than a full-on villain, he is given two sleazy showtunes, [[MisogynySong "It Takes a Woman"]] and "Penny in my Pocket", which highlight his sexism and his rigid capitalist beliefs respectively.



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This famous 1964 [[TheMusical musical]], adapted by Jerry Herman (music) and Michael Stewart (book) from a Creator/ThorntonWilder play, ''Theatre/TheMatchmaker'' (itself based on an Austrian play, ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'', which was in turn based on an earlier English play, ''A Day Well-spent''), tells the tale of matchmaker and zany manipulator Dolly Levi (originally played by Carol Channing on Broadway). It's the turn of the 20th century in New York City, and after years of making matches for others she's out to make one for herself with the above-mentioned merchant Horace Vandergelder. In the process of doing so, she helps three other couples get together.

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This famous 1964 [[TheMusical musical]], adapted by Jerry Herman (music) and Michael Stewart (book) from a Creator/ThorntonWilder play, ''Theatre/TheMatchmaker'' (itself based on an Austrian play, ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'', which was in turn based on an earlier English play, ''A Day Well-spent''), tells the tale of matchmaker and zany manipulator Dolly Levi (originally played by Carol Channing Creator/CarolChanning on Broadway). It's the turn of the 20th century in New York City, and after years of making matches for others she's out to make one for herself with the above-mentioned merchant Horace Vandergelder. In the process of doing so, she helps three other couples get together.
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** The film version changes her name ''back'' to Simple.
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This famous 1964 [[TheMusical musical]], adapted from a Creator/ThorntonWilder play, ''Theatre/TheMatchmaker'' (itself based on an Austrian play, ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'', which was in turn based on an earlier English play, ''A Day Well-spent''), tells the tale of matchmaker and zany manipulator Dolly Levi (originally played by Carol Channing on Broadway). It's the turn of the 20th century in New York City, and after years of making matches for others she's out to make one for herself with the above-mentioned merchant Horace Vandergelder. In the process of doing so, she helps three other couples get together.

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This famous 1964 [[TheMusical musical]], adapted by Jerry Herman (music) and Michael Stewart (book) from a Creator/ThorntonWilder play, ''Theatre/TheMatchmaker'' (itself based on an Austrian play, ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'', which was in turn based on an earlier English play, ''A Day Well-spent''), tells the tale of matchmaker and zany manipulator Dolly Levi (originally played by Carol Channing on Broadway). It's the turn of the 20th century in New York City, and after years of making matches for others she's out to make one for herself with the above-mentioned merchant Horace Vandergelder. In the process of doing so, she helps three other couples get together.

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