There were two Doris Day and Rock Hudson films on TCM today. Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back. I loved them. The fashions, the sets, the stories! Really fun. Pre-sexual revolution, they are dated in that regard, but still lots of fun to watch. I noticed she was mostly shot with a filter where Rock Hudson and others were not. She was about 40 when the movies were made. She still looked great. I love her in her white costumes. Great figure and so elegant. I googled Miss Day to see how she looks today. Here she is at 95, she'll be 96 on April 3.
"I googled Miss Day"
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 12, 2018 6:46 AM |
She's an attractive 95 year old woman, but she could really do with some fillers.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 12, 2018 6:46 AM |
The Academy surely would kill to get her on the Oscars, but Doris doesn't give a damn. I like that about her.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 12, 2018 6:48 AM |
One thing that has surprised me about Datalounge is the great love that DLers have for Doris Day. I liked her growing up, watched her TV show and enjoyed her movies, but then she disappeared and I forgot about her. DL brings her up regularly, discusses her career and seems to hold her in very high regard. I find it off-putting that she is a lifelong Republican, frankly. But I do respect that she has led a quiet life away from Hollywood for many years now.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 12, 2018 6:49 AM |
the mod fab outfits she wore on her Doris Day Show series were so dam fun....
she is a huge animal advocate. bless u miss doris day::::ur much loved.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 12, 2018 6:51 AM |
I remember the DD show when she had to become a model and the finale of the show turned out to be her shower curtain
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 12, 2018 6:55 AM |
And the ankh ring in R10's pic!
Doris was letting her freak flag fly.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 12, 2018 7:09 AM |
Fabulous figure. So slim around the waist. Great ass.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 12, 2018 7:14 AM |
Looks good at 95. Thanks, OP. Always loved Doris Day.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 12, 2018 7:17 AM |
I agree, R12. That fact is often overlooked, but she had a dancer's body. Lean, strong, gorgeous. Plus a lovely neck, back and shoulders, so she could wear those long, slinky evening gowns. Yeah, Doris was beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 12, 2018 7:21 AM |
her figure was awesome on the tv show. very sexy lady....
cute outfits!
loved her voice and bright sunny energy
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 12, 2018 7:44 AM |
She is in one of my favorite Hitchcock movies.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 13, 2018 7:19 AM |
Bob Hope, admiringly, called her "jut butt." When she was a teenager, she was in that bad car accident, so it's especially remarkable how limber she was.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 13, 2018 7:25 AM |
DD loves The BBC. Not the British Broadcasting Corp the other one......
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 13, 2018 7:42 AM |
I really like Lover Come Back (Vip!). Pillow Talk is also fun, although it's not as original and unusual.
She wasn't very good in drama because she had a tendency to overact in them (such as in "Midnight lace"). She did have one really great dramatic performance in "Love Me or leave Me," where she sings my favorite number of her entire film career, "Shaking the Blues Away," where she not only got to show off her great voice but her great body (she was understood to have the best ass in Hollywood during the 50s ).
She was fine in comedies, though, and especially fine in musicals. I didn't like her singing strident torch songs (like her famous "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane), but I loved it when she sang songs that required a lighter touch. She hugely admired Dinah Shore, and picked up some lovely phrasing tricks from her.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 13, 2018 7:50 AM |
Send Me No Flowers from 1964 is really cute with Rock Hudson. Both Doris and Rock were great in comedy. Pillow Talk released in 1959 and Lover Come Back 1961.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 13, 2018 8:12 AM |
She was an extremely confident performer, and there is something very appealing in a well justified self confidence, as opposed to vanity - and she wasn't vane.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 13, 2018 8:24 AM |
I don't know weather or not she was vane, but I like your sentiments.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 13, 2018 8:30 AM |
I used to love pointing out and laughing at that giant braid in the opening credits of her show.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 13, 2018 8:34 AM |
So sorry to hear of the passing of Miss Doris Day. A TRUE LEGEND! She will be missed...Goodnight, Sweet Princess.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 13, 2018 9:10 AM |
It's "vain", not "vane".
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 13, 2018 9:11 AM |
I'm sure your Hebrew is better than my English, R26
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 13, 2018 10:05 AM |
Whatever. Get a fucking dictionary.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 13, 2018 10:22 AM |
R26, we were testing you. You past!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 13, 2018 10:28 AM |
I think her worst film was "Tunnel of Love" with the great Richard Widmark. Smarmy,"comedy" about a couple trying to conceive. A snigger fest.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 13, 2018 11:24 AM |
I hear bad things about Caprice. I have never seen it though.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 13, 2018 11:47 AM |
How lesbian is DD? I always thought she could go a little butch.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 13, 2018 12:07 PM |
[quote]DD loves The BBC. Not the British Broadcasting Corp the other one......
We have that in common.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 13, 2018 7:40 PM |
Caprice is unbelievably bad.
And I love Doris.
Story is she read the script and said "Boy am I glad I don't have to do this junk." Her husband then told her he had already committed her to do it.
There is zero compatibility between DD and Richard Harris. (Whatever was Harris even doing in this picture.?)
Spoiler follows just in case someone is unlucky enough to actually watch it.
Also starring Ray Walston as a cross dressing industrial spy.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 13, 2018 8:18 PM |
One of the other reasons for the filter were her freckles. Supposedly she hated the freckles on her face.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 13, 2018 9:53 PM |
Down with Love (2003) was a lame attempt at copying Pillow Talk.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 13, 2018 10:04 PM |
she looks great for her age, good for her! How can you not love Doris Day? Feminists despised her because her romantic comedies were pre-liberation but anyone with a brain could see she was a magnetic, irresistibly charming star. Also she was the number 1 draw at the BO, earning BIG money: can't get more feminist than that.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 13, 2018 10:05 PM |