Bells Are Ringing

Starring: Holliday, Judy and Foy, Eddie, Jr.

Product Description

The "getup" in New York's get-up-and-go comes from the switchboard operators of Susanswerphone. Need a wake-up call? Your appointments? Encouragement from "Mom"? A racetrack bet? It all comes from that dutiful nerve -- or noive -- center that keeps enterprises enterprising and, maybe, wedding bells ringing. Judy Holliday reprises her Tony -winning Broadway role of irrepressible switchboard girl Ella in a jubilant adaptation that marked her final movie and the final teaming of movie-musical titans Arthur Freed and Vincente Minnelli. Dean Martin costars as a struggling playwright in for a surprise when he learns "Mom's" identity. The sparkling Jule Styne/Betty Comden/Adolph Green score includes Holliday's heartfelt "The Party's Over" and the jolly Holliday/Martin duet "Just in Time." You've dialed the right number, musical fans!

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 012569591325
• Release Date: March 2005
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Warner Home Video
• Director: Minnelli, Vincente
• Starring: Holliday, Judy, Foy, Eddie, Jr.
• Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; Closed-captioned; Color; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

What can Suesanswerphone do for you?

Stage play brought to the big screen and finally to DVD, and you. Several plots overlap. I will not go into detail, as it is fun to be surprised. However, working as an operator for a phone answering service, Ella Peterson (Judy Holliday) is in the perfect location to hear people's problems, and she schemes to help them. At first, she passes the information on by way of phone. When one customer unplugs, she decides to help in person. She takes on an alias, “Melisande Scott,” and falls in love with a customer, Jeffrey Moss (Dean Martin), but she takes on more than she bargained for. Meanwhile, Inspector Barns suspects that the answering service is a front for some hanky panky and is looking for an excuse to put the lot of them in the women's detention center. And J. Otto Prantz just sold 5000 copies of Beethoven's Tenth, Op. 6. Lots of songs, including “Plaza O, Double Four, Double Three,” and dance scenes. The still camera gives it that stage musical feel, but it only adds to the fun. --------------------------------------- One note on the DVD. The outtakes, except for one Dean Martin song, "My Guiding Star," were best taken out as they distracted from the rest of the story.