BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

mike48128 A long time ago, answering services were used before technology improved. Ella Peterson (Judy Holliday) runs such a service and takes care of many clients. She gets involved in their personal lives although she has never met them. Only 2 really notable songs in this movie musical: "Just in Time" and "The Party's Over". "It's a Perfect Relationship" and "I'm Going Back" are clever, but many songs are totally forgettable. Most notable as the "Tour De Force" of the persona and style of Judy Holliday, who tragically died of throat cancer just five years later, in 1965 at age 43. (She was a chain smoker.) A clever and unique "book" involving dumb cops, bookies, stereotypical gangsters, and many personalities. Jean Stapleton and Frank Gorshin in a rather large cast. Dean Martin plays the musical author with writer's block and Judy Holliday plays his "Muse". They work well together. I also love the tacky bar showgirls bumping and grinding to "The Midas Touch" song which is truly terrible. Based on the often-used concept that one single life can affect many people in a very positive way. The last Arthur Freed-Vincente Minnelli production.

the_great If I was asked to describe this musical with one word, it would be zany. Crazy, madcap, wacky, whacky, screwball, screwy and unconventional are the other words suggested by Microsoft Word. Pons asinorum, Dean Martin's character is a playwright in need of encouragement and inspiration. Judy Holliday's character, a telephone operator, is there to provide them. There's actually nothing standing between them except for the ancient old romantic comedy regulation that demands a misconception of any kind to drive a wedge between them.But this isn't why I decided to write a little review. I wanted to tell just how well they play together; what kooky characters they encounter; how they swing the Jule Styne songs. Imagine Seinfeld, the musical. That's it. The highlight of the film is Dino singing Just in Time. Saying hello to strangers and breaking into a cappella song never felt so nice, and easy.

Lawson I'm not a musical fan so I always give extra props to the ones I do love. Bells Are Ringing is a Broadway hit brought to the screen and Judy Holliday reprises her Tony Award-winning role in it.The story has a basic Cinderella plot but what's charming about it is Holliday's inimitable bubbly blonde style and the character she plays - an overly-helpful "Susanswerphone" answering service attendant (like a human voice mail service) who likes to give advice to her clients and ends up falling for a playboy playwright, Dean Martin. It also helps that the movie's directed by Vincente Minnelli, who excels at musicals, and written by Broadway luminaries - and close friends of Holliday - Betty Comden and Adolph Green (their most famous work being Singin' in the Rain).I have to say the movie's all the more powerful if you know that it was Judy Holliday's last movie and that she was already ill with the cancer that would eventually kill her five years later at the age of 44. I wish she had made more movies but at least she's been in gems like this one, along with Born Yesterday and Adam's Rib.

mifunesamurai This is Judy's movie and she gives Dean a run for his money as she plays the bubbly telephonist who pries in other people's affairs with a helping hand. Sadly it was her last film. A talented woman who was not afraid to be unglamorous!