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Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 American romantic comedy-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin.Based on the successful 1956 Broadway production of the same name by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne, the film focuses on Ella Peterson, based on the life of Mary Printz, who works in the basement office of a telephone answering service.
- June 23, 1960
Bells Are Ringing: Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr.. A Brooklyn answering service operator becomes involved in the lives of her clients, including a struggling playwright with whom she begins to fall in love.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Vincente Minnelli
- 1960-07
Bells Are Ringing (1960) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Oscars Cannes Film Festival Asian Pacific American ...
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Ella Peterson (Judy Holliday) is an operator for an answering service run by her cousin, Sue (Jean Stapleton). Lacking excitement in her personal life, Ella starts becoming involved in the lives ...
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- Judy Holliday
- Vincente Minnelli
- Musical, Comedy
Bells Are Ringing was a Broadway smash. Holliday played Ella for two years, and won a Tony Award. By the time the legendary MGM musical team of producer Arthur Freed and director Vincente Minnelli was ready to make the film version of Bells Are Ringing (1960), Holliday was depressed again. Her romance with her Broadway co-star, Sydney Chaplin ...
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and ...
