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1964 Broadway musical

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Judy Knaiz: Gussie Grainger/Ernestina Simple in the film version of Hello, Dolly!

Judy Knaiz as Gussie Grainger/Ernestina Simple

In the early 1960s, Judy Knaiz’s career began as  a musical comedy  featured entertainer at the Pittsburgh Playhouse . She studied there for two years before being asked to be on the staff there as well.

That led to a local television show and a friend’s brother, who was an agent at William Morris saw her. He ended up becoming her agent and by the time she went to pursue a career in New York, she already had an agent!

She got several gigs in New York including working at The Upstairs at the Downstairs. She did a few industrials and ran up and down Broadway in her rehearsal clothes hoping to get roles. She got cast in Dames at Sea as Joan off-Broadway and was in that show when it closed.

In the early 1960’s as the rest of the world was aware of this powerhouse musical, Hello, Dolly, so was Judy Knaiz. She also had a history with Gene Kelly who would go on to direct the film.

Two years prior, he had cast her as Sandra Dee’s roommate in a movie that never got made. He told her at the time that she was a dead ringer for Carol Haney who was one of his favorite people.

He had heard Judy sing when she auditioned to be Gene Kelly’s partner for a t

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Hello, Dolly! (film)

1969 American musical romantic comedy film

Hello, Dolly! is a 1969 American musicalromantic comedy film based on the 1964 Broadway production of the same name, which was based on Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker. Directed by Gene Kelly and written and produced by Ernest Lehman, the film stars Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Danny Lockin, Tommy Tune, Fritz Feld, Marianne McAndrew, E. J. Peaker and Louis Armstrong (whose recording of the title tune had been a number-one hit in May 1964).^[2]

The film follows the story of Dolly Levi, a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a match for the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.

Released on December 16, 1969, by 20th Century-Fox, the film won three Academy Awards: for Best Art Direction, Best Score of a Musical Picture and Best Sound, and was nominated for four other Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Although the film eventually broke even financially, it was not a contemporary commercial success.^[3][4]

Plot

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In 1890, well-known widowed matchmaker Dolly Levi pl