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Bells Are Ringing

A Brooklyn answering service operator becomes involved in the lives of her clients, including a struggling playwright with whom she begins to fall in love.

Director

Vincente Minnelli

Year

Genre

comedy, musical, romance

Box Office

N/A

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 5 nominations total

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Ella Peterson

Jeffrey Moss

Larry Hastings

J. Otto Prantz

Sue

Gwynne

Inspector Barnes

Blake Barton

Francis

Olga

Dr. Joe Kitchell

Gangster

Ella's Blind Date

NYC Kid

Martin Abrahams

Bernie Dunstock

Party Guest

Actress

Man on Street

Headwaiter

Party Guest

Carl

Pedestrian

Specialty Dancer

Bookie

Minor Role

Party Guest

Party Guest

Pedestrian

Pedestrian

Arthur Berkeley

Nick - Hood

Woman on Street

Ludwig Smiley

Dowager Art Lover Party Guest

Minor Role

Mike - Coffee Shop Proprietor

Restaurant Patron

Irate Pedestrian

Doorman

Subway Passenger

Party Guest

Party Guest

Party Guest

Minor Role

Peanut Eater

Richard Collier

Party Guest

Party Guest

Party Guest

Restaurant Patron

Alphonso DuBois

Cop

Actress

Party Guest

Singing Voice of Tommy Farrell

Minor Role

Minor Role

Minor Role

Pedestrian

Party Guest

Herschel Graham

Bartender

Party Guest

Jacqueline Green

Actor

Christian Haren

Party Guest

Restaurant Patron

Party Guest

Party Guest

Man in Park

Party Guest

Actor

Party Guest

Bookie

Cop

Actor

Michael Johnson

Telephone Man

Actress

Sally Ann Jones

Restaurant Patron

Party Guest

Man with Kitchell

William Kirschner

Mme. Grimaldi

Minor Role

Pedestrian

Pratfalling Party Guest

Charlie Bessemer

Minor Role

Singer of 'The Midas Touch'

Mrs. Mollett

Bar Patron

Girl Walking

Party Guest

Waiter

Man on Street

Party Guest

Party Guest

Eugene McCarthy

Janitor

Minor Role

Actor

Narrator of Susanswerphone Ad

Bookie

Minor Role

Beatnik Actor

Girl Reading Book

Elizabeth Montgomery

Party Guest

Party Guest

Pedestrian Next to Barney Lampwick

Party Guest

Girl in Cluttered Room

Minor Role

Olga

Barney Lampwick's Friend - Man on Street

Actress

Minor Role

Minor Role

Party Guest

Party Guest

Frank J. Scannell

Party Guest

Party Guest

Party Guest

Minor Role

Actress

Pedestrian

Pedestrian

Bookie

Nervous Man

Party Guest

Chorus Girl

Blonde in Susanswerphone Ad

Actor

Blind Bookie

George E. Stone

Restaurant Patron

Barney Lampwick

Bookie

Katherine Arnold

Young Man on Street

Party Guest

Vendor

Restaurant Patron

Actress

Actress

Party Guest

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Ella Peterson Jeffrey Moss Gwynne Man With Kitchell Olga Carl J. Otto Prantz Larry Hastings Katherine Arnold Blake Barton Dr. Joe Kitchell Narrator Of Susanswerphone Ad Inspector Barnes Sue

Ladies and gentlemen,
has this ever happened to you? - Bells Are Ringing

Ladies and gentlemen, has this ever happened to you?

Subscribe to an answering service - Bells Are Ringing

Subscribe to an answering service

I'd like to make
a reservation. - Bells Are Ringing

I'd like to make a reservation.

This is Dr. Kitchell's Dental Clinic.
One moment, please. - Bells Are Ringing

This is Dr. Kitchell's Dental Clinic. One moment, pleas...

L love your sunny teeth - Bells Are Ringing

L love your sunny teeth

Well, you just beat your own record. - Bells Are Ringing

Well, you just beat your own record.

L'm n love w th a vo ce - Bells Are Ringing

L'm n love w th a vo ce

They wanted things like Iove hate and anger - Bells Are Ringing

They wanted things like Iove hate and anger

Ls that your motorcycle outside - Bells Are Ringing

Ls that your motorcycle outside

Hey you get the part in The M das Touch - Bells Are Ringing

Hey you get the part in The M das Touch

Did you ever try wearing a suit - Bells Are Ringing

Did you ever try wearing a suit

Be a punk imitation the rest of your life - Bells Are Ringing

Be a punk imitation the rest of your life

You gotta do it, you gotta do it - Bells Are Ringing

You gotta do it, you gotta do it

Hey there must be a mistake in that order Beethoven only wrote nine symphonies - Bells Are Ringing

Hey there must be a mistake in that order Beethoven only...

Now tell me do you enjoy doing this line of work - Bells Are Ringing

Now tell me do you enjoy doing this line of work

How did you know about her and the races - Bells Are Ringing

How did you know about her and the races

Okay which one is the madam - Bells Are Ringing

Okay which one is the madam

L thought you needed a secretary Secretary - Bells Are Ringing

L thought you needed a secretary Secretary

You have the keys to my heart - Bells Are Ringing

You have the keys to my heart

Even for a mustard plaster Francie - Bells Are Ringing

Even for a mustard plaster Francie

Oh, Otto. You can put
your things right over here. - Bells Are Ringing

Oh, Otto. You can put your things right over here.

All you have to do is give - Bells Are Ringing

All you have to do is give

Lf that's the way things are gonna be l might as well - Bells Are Ringing

Lf that's the way things are gonna be l might as well

If that's the way things are gonna be I might as well - Bells Are Ringing

If that's the way things are gonna be I might as well

Cha cha cha Cha cha cha - Bells Are Ringing

Cha cha cha Cha cha cha

Lf l hadn't found you crawling around on my floor l wouldn't be invited anyplace - Bells Are Ringing

Lf l hadn't found you crawling around on my floor l...

Now you're here - Bells Are Ringing

Now you're here

Oh shall we show them that little act we used to do in Chicago - Bells Are Ringing

Oh shall we show them that little act we used to do in...

Seven o'clock. - Bells Are Ringing

Hey Titanic Records Is that a new label - Bells Are Ringing

Hey Titanic Records Is that a new label

Max's Dog and Cat Beauty Shop. Sorry,
we're not open till 9 a.m. Thank you. - Bells Are Ringing

Max's Dog and Cat Beauty Shop. Sorry, we're not op...

Women's detention home. - Bells Are Ringing

Women's detention home.

Ruin your last chance Last chan Last chance to do what - Bells Are Ringing

Ruin your last chance Last chan Last chance to do what

Oh well now that my vision has cleared up a bit - Bells Are Ringing

Oh well now that my vision has cleared up a bit

Did l say l was a writer No but you're not a plumber are you - Bells Are Ringing

Did l say l was a writer No but you're not a plumber...

Boy you're a real kooky dame aren't you - Bells Are Ringing

Boy you're a real kooky dame aren't you

L know a guy whose father's forcing him to be a dentist He wants to be a composer - Bells Are Ringing

L know a guy whose father's forcing him to be a dentist...

Mr Moss you have to have confidence in yourself - Bells Are Ringing

Mr Moss you have to have confidence in yourself

Hey, wait a minute. - Bells Are Ringing

Hey, wait a minute.

The candles fl cher and d m - Bells Are Ringing

The candles fl cher and d m

- Well, why don't you try it this time?
- Oh, no. - Bells Are Ringing

- Well, why don't you try it this time? - Oh, no.

- Goodbye.
- Goodbye. - Bells Are Ringing

- Goodbye. - Goodbye.

L don't know whether they're pushing dope or if it's a spy ring - Bells Are Ringing

L don't know whether they're pushing dope or if...

Actually l'm a dentist - Bells Are Ringing

Actually l'm a dentist

- Kramer Music.
- Message for Kramer. - Bells Are Ringing

- Kramer Music. - Message for Kramer.

L don't know where l'll be l don't know where l am - Bells Are Ringing

L don't know where l'll be l don't know where...

I love your sunny teeth - Bells Are Ringing

I love your sunny teeth

What's going on here We're taking you down to the station - Bells Are Ringing

What's going on here We're taking you down to the...

Now, what did you say you name is? - Bells Are Ringing

Now, what did you say you name is?

All Susanswerphone - Bells Are Ringing

All Susanswerphone

L've spent my whole life tuning in on other people's lives - Bells Are Ringing

L've spent my whole life tuning in on other...

But who am l - Bells Are Ringing

- Good afternoon, Mr. Swenson.
- Oh, good afternoon, Miss Ella. - Bells Are Ringing

- Good afternoon, Mr. Swenson. - Oh, good afternoon, Miss El...

I said "uh." - Bells Are Ringing

Yeah. - Bells Are Ringing

To think my simple little bookie system can be loused up by this dumb broad - Bells Are Ringing

To think my simple little bookie system can be loused up by...

Fifteen hundred copies of Beethoven's
Tenth Symphony, Opus Six. - Bells Are Ringing

Fifteen hundred copies of Beethoven's Tenth Symphony, O...

No no no It won't be necessary to rub us out boys because - Bells Are Ringing

No no no It won't be necessary to rub us out boys...

Farewell my l ebchen Oh Otto how you deceived me - Bells Are Ringing

Farewell my l ebchen Oh Otto how you deceived me

- What's the matter?
- Nothing. - Bells Are Ringing

- What's the matter? - Nothing.

L loved talking to Mom - Bells Are Ringing

L loved talking to Mom

Ella you're a girl with a lot of love to give - Bells Are Ringing

Ella you're a girl with a lot of love to give

You gave my life that crazy switcheroo Cuckoo - Bells Are Ringing

You gave my life that crazy switcheroo Cuckoo

All right? - Bells Are Ringing

- Too much?
- Yeah. - Bells Are Ringing

- Too much? - Yeah.

It's not a play for a British director! - Bells Are Ringing

It's not a play for a British director!

You danced and dreamed
Through the night - Bells Are Ringing

You danced and dreamed Through the night

Nowhere to go - Bells Are Ringing

- I would like to order a martini.
- Okay. - Bells Are Ringing

- I would like to order a martini. - Okay.

- Dr. Kitchell's Dental Clinic.
- Where is the doctor? - Bells Are Ringing

- Dr. Kitchell's Dental Clinic. - Where is the doctor?

Max's Dog and Cat Beauty Shop.
Nobody home. - Bells Are Ringing

Max's Dog and Cat Beauty Shop. Nobody home.

What kind of a place is this? It looks
like something out of Oliver Twist. - Bells Are Ringing

What kind of a place is this? It looks like something out of...

And so, ladies and gentlemen, you too... - Bells Are Ringing

And so, ladies and gentlemen, you too...

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A Brooklyn answering service operator becomes involved in the lives of her clients, including a struggling playwright with whom she begins to fall in love.

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Director: Vincente Minnelli

Writer: Betty Comden, Adolph Green

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Genre: comedy, musical, romance

Year: 1960

MetaScore: 61/100

ImdbRating: 6.9

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 01 Jul 1960

Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 5 nominations total

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