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Bells Are Ringing
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6.5Ella 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 desperately needs a muse.
Released: 1960-06-23126 minDir: Vincente MinnelliComedy, Romance
Cast
- Judy Holliday as Ella Peterson
- Dean Martin as Jeffrey Moss
- Fred Clark as Larry Hastings
- Eddie Foy Jr. as J. Otto Prantz
- Jean Stapleton as Sue
- Ruth Storey as Gwynne
Themes
- musical
- playwright
- answering service
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Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
3,866 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
82%
Metacritic
61/100
- Year
- 1960
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 5 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- romantic comedy
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Vincente Minnelli
- Screenwriter
- Betty Comden
- Composer
- Jule Styne
- Producer
- Arthur Freed
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cinematographer
- Milton Krasner
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Duration
- 127
- FilmAffinity ID
- 333032
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- BellsAreRingingPoster.JPG
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- Commons category
- Bells Are Ringing (film)
- publication date
- 1962-06-04
- title
- Bells Are Ringing
- production designer
- E. Preston Ames
- distributed by
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- costume designer
- Walter Plunkett
- film editor
- Adrienne Fazan
- review score
- 82%
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