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Bells Are Ringing (1960) [NR]

Release Date:
June 23, 1960

Original Title:
Bells Are Ringing

Alternate Titles:
Bells Are Ringing - Anruf genügt

Genres:
Comedy | Music | Romance

Production Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 126

The screen is singing M.G.M. is bringing Broadway's Bell-Ringer of a Musical to the World!

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Ella 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.

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Production

Art Direction:
George W. Davis
E. Preston Ames

Assistant Director:
William McGarry

Choreographer:
Charles O'Curran

Conductor:
André Previn

Costume Design:
Walter Plunkett

Director:
Vincente Minnelli

Director of Photography:
Milton Krasner

Editor:
Adrienne Fazan

Hairstylist:
Sydney Guilaroff

Lyricist:
Adolph Green
Betty Comden

Makeup Designer:
William Tuttle

Original Music Composer:
Jule Styne

Producer:
Arthur Freed

Recording Supervision:
Franklin Milton

Screenplay:
Adolph Green
Betty Comden

Set Decoration:
Henry Grace
F. Keogh Gleason

Songs:
Jule Styne

Special Effects:
Lee LeBlanc
A. Arnold Gillespie

Theatre Play:
Betty Comden
Adolph Green

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