Bells Are Ringing (film)

Bells Are Ringing
Bells Are Ringing
	Original poster
Directed by	Vincente Minnelli
Screenplay by	Betty Comden; Adolph Green; (screenplay and lyrics);
Based on	Bells Are Ringing; 1956 musical; by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne
Produced by	Arthur Freed
Starring	Judy Holliday; Dean Martin;
Cinematography	Milton Krasner
Edited by	Adrienne Fazan
Music by	Jule Styne; Music supervised and conducted by; André Previn;
Color process	Metrocolor
Production; company	An Arthur Freed Production
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	June 23, 1960;
Running time	126 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3.2 million
Box office	$3.6 million

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.

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