Bells Are Ringing (film)

Bells Are Ringing
Original poster
Directed byVincente Minnelli
Screenplay by
Based onBells Are Ringing
1956 musical
by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne
Produced byArthur Freed
Starring
CinematographyMilton Krasner
Edited byAdrienne Fazan
Music by
Color processMetrocolor
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • June 23, 1960 (1960-06-23)
Running time
126 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.2 million[1]
Box office$3.6 million[1][2]

Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 American romantic comedy-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin. Based on the successful 1956 Broadway production of the same name by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne, the film focuses on Ella Peterson, based on the life of Mary Printz,[3] who works in the basement office of a telephone answering service.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ US and Canada figures see "Rental Potentials of 1960", Variety, 4 January 1961 p 47.
  3. ^ Fox, Margalit (1 March 2009). "Mary Printz, an Ear for the Famous, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 March 2009.