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The Matchmaker

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The Matchmaker
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1hr 41min
Genres:
Comedy,Romance
Release:
1958
Director:
Joseph Anthony
Distributor:
Paramount
Starring:
Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine  ...more
Synopsis: Thornton Wilder's 1938 stage play The Merchant of Yonkers was based on an old British stage farce by John Oxenford (which in turn served as the basis of an Austrian farce by Johann Nestroy). Merchant of Yonkers was a bomb, but Wilder was quite fond of the piece, so he revised it as the considerably more successful The Matchmaker in 1955. The 1958 film version stars Shirley Booth as 19th-century matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi (a character not found in the Oxenford or Nestroy versions; Wilder "borrowed" ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker is a rarity, a farce with heart. Because of their reliance on fast pacing, complicated plotting and characters that are usually types rather than fully formed people, even the best farces tend to skimp on warmth. But there's a sentimental, sometimes melancholy little melody that keeps sounding underneath the cacophony that accompanies Wilder's boisterous goings-on, ... Full Review
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Shirley Booth
Dolly "Gallagher" Levi
Anthony Perkins
Cornelius Hackl
Shirley MacLaine
Irene Molloy
Paul Ford
Horace Vandergelder
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