Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 romantic comedy-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Based on the successful 1956 Broadway production of the same name by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne, it focused on Ella Peterson, who works in the basement office of Susanswerphone. Peterson, based on Mary Printz, who worked at Green's telephone answering service, is an answering service operator who listens in on others' lives and adds some intere...
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Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 romantic comedy-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Based on the successful 1956 Broadway production of the same name by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne, it focused on Ella Peterson, who works in the basement office of Susanswerphone. Peterson, based on Mary Printz, who worked at Green's telephone answering service, is an answering service operator who listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients, including an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse. Adding complications to the plot are the police, who are certain the business is a front for an "escort service," and the owner's shady boyfriend, who unbeknownst to her is using the agency as a bookmaking operation.
Judy Holliday and Jean Stapleton reprised their stage roles for the film. The...
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