Bells Are Ringing (1960) - January 31, 2017

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Bells Are Ringing Blu-ray
Bells Are Ringing Review

Warner Archive has added up one more release to its January batch of titles: director Vincente Minnelli's Bells Are Ringing (1960), starring Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy, Jr., and Jean Stapleton. The release will be available for purchase on January 31.

Synopsis: The get-up in New York's get-up-and-go comes from the switchboard operators of Susanswerphone. Need a wakeup 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!

Special Features:

• Featurette - Bells are Ringing: Just in Time
• Outtake Musical Numbers:
• Is it a Crime? - Judy Holliday
• My Guiding Star - Dean Martin
• Alternate Take:
• The Midas Touch - Hal Linden & Chorus
• Original Theatrical Trailer