ilovedinomartin: Mostly she spends her time developing a crush on a writer-client with writer's block named Jeff Moss (Dean Martin).

Hey pallies, likes as faithful readers of ilovedinomartin knows one of my fav of fav flicks is our Dino's only big screen Broadway musical to film...."Bells Are Ringing." I loves this particular film so much 'cause of course it stars our most beloved Dino, but also as I have mentioned before, I am a great fan of the great Miss Judy Holiday. So, I was very pysched, to find that our new pallie Miss Mallory over at the pad "Gems," where we just shared her post on "Some Came Running," had created a massive post accentin' "Bells Are Ringing."

Why I tag Mallory's post "massive" is 'cause while her prose is quite short, she has assembled a ton of pixs from the flick, likes over 40, includin' quite a number of Dino-poses that are visually very very stunnin'.

Kudos to Miss Mallory for such a huge effort of creativity for this great great Dino-flick. Likes I hope she still will continue to do photo essays of more and more of our Dino's great big screen efforts. To view her work in it's original format, likes clicks on the tag of this here Dino-gram. Dino-always, ever, and only, DMP

10.10.2012

Bells Are Ringing

Bells Are Ringing - a musical starring Dean Martin and Judy Holliday, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1960).

The main character of Bells Are Ringing is named Ella (played by Judy Holliday). She works at a phone answering service called Susanswerphone. Oh the wit.

The commercial for Susanswerphone is hilarious.

The one in the blue? That's Ella. The other woman is standing over a fan to cool herself off. Even though this post is being published in October, I'm writing it in August and I definitely feel like standing over a fan. But I have no fan to stand over. Woe.

This is her boss - played by Jean Stapleton from All in the Family. I kept expecting her to say "Archie!"

Ella goes on a date and the peacock-y back of her dress catches on fire. THE WORST.

She uses the info she gets from being an answering service girl to help other clients. SHE ISN'T SUPPOSED TO DO THAT. But she does. Mostly she spends her time developing a crush on a writer-client with writer's block named Jeff Moss (Dean Martin). The only issue is that when she talks to him, she puts on the voice of an old lady and he calls her "mom". It's rather strange.

She's all moony and swoony about him - EVEN BEFORE THEY MEET.

Here he is.

In some movies Dean tends to be super orange and scary, but he's pretty naturally tinted in this.

I liked his office.

There's another plot line where this dude is using Susanswerphone as a cover for his gambling business.

Oh, musicals. How I love you.

She sneaks into his apartment to make sure he wakes up in time for an appointment about a movie he's writing. When he wakes up she pretends she was in there accidentally (riiiiiiiigghhhhhht) and then ends up becoming his muse - BUT - he has no idea that she's really "mom" from Susanswerphone.

Obviously complications ensue, but it all ends romantically and happily.