Best / Favorite Doris Day Film

Send Me No Flowers.

Favorite: The Man Who Knew Too Much. I love her singing Que Sera, Sera.

The Sound of Music....

Lover Come Back....

Best: The Man Who Knew Too Much

Favourite: Pillow Talk / Calamity Jane

Her America's sweetheart shtick was a total turn off, but she's a progressive and nothing against her as a person.

R6, What? ^^^^ She’s a progressive? A progressive Republican? Or what? It’s well known that she is a Republican and her age, I doubt she’s that progressive, .

Jamie Lee Traps Michael Myers in her basement and sets him on fire. All three Strode women survive.

Please Don’t Eat My Pussy

The Thrill Of It All co-starring James Garner and DL fav, and killer, Arlene Francis.

You're Beverly Boyer, r10......

Pillow talk 🛏

The Remains of the Day

It should have been The Graduate.

A Star is Born. That was her perfect vehicle with her real life husband whatsisname the singer.

Pussy Talk

Ten cents a dance....

Or. The Studios Try To Copy Judy Garland's "The Man That Got Away" Thinking It Is A New Style.

Pillow Talk has an amazing camp factor, especially her big Brunhilde voice in the title song. And she comes across as the sexual aggressor.

Love Anita O'Day's devil-may-care version of "Ten Cents". Day was no O'Day.

I love Midnight Lace. So campy.

And the one where she's married to Rod Taylor and she get's drunk while wearing a one man band outfit with cymbals on the knees - Do Not Disturb.

Oh and With Six You Get Egg Roll is another good one.

My favorite FUNNY Doris Day movie is "The Glass Bottom Boat". Lots of funny slapstick - and she did it very - well plus a lot of guest stars including Paul Lynde and even Gladys and Abner from Bewitched. I never get tired of seeing it.

The cake scene in The Glass Bottom Boat with Dom Deluise. Very funny and well done - you have to see it.

I liked most of her films but I like the comedies best.

She really did have the perfect figure...she could wear anything.

Plus we get hunky Rod Taylor in Glass Bottom Boat.

The Glass Bottom Boat - Robert Vaughn’s very brief cameo (as “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”) cruising Paul Lynde, who’s dressed in drag.

In her memoir Doris Day said that she did not want to make Do Not Disturb, The Ballad Of Josie, Where Were You When The Lights Went Out, and most of all Caprice which she hated. But her husband had power of attorney and had already signed her to do them so she had no choice.

Her very first movie "Romance On The High Seas" was well done, a lot of fun, and highlighted her as a singer.

I loved Doris and John Raitt singing There Once Was A Man from Pajama Game. It's a bit risque for the times ("more than a dope fiend likes his dope"). I love how she was barefoot and showed her stomach. The whole thing is so over theatrical that you can't help but love it.

I used to think "The Glass Bottom Boat". was weak, but now, I really like it. "Lover Come Back: close second. And agree, R30, her first flick was great as well.

The Thrill Of It All...

It Happened to Jane

and

Where Were you When The Lights Went Out

Basic Instinct

I think I saw two of her films on TV when I was a kid. Not sure which ones but I remember thinking how silly they were. I never saw the appeal.

My mother loved her and was beside herself when she died.

Her movie "Julie" was quite serious but turned out to be fairly campy, especially when as an air line stewardess she has to single handedly land a plane. However Louie Jourdan was nice to look at.

While she was making this movie a tumor was growing inside her and she was hemorrhaging and had to have medical treatment once the movie was finished.

The handsome Louis Jourdan. He can certainly lay down with me!

Best: The Pajama Game

Favorite: Love Me or Leave Me (if only for "Shakin' the Blues Away," her greatest musical number in any film [link])

Runner-up: Lover Come Back

CAT BALLOU or CLEOPATRA JONES

Doris Day deserved better than husband Marty Melcher. Although he successfully managed her movie career he cheated on her, had sex with other women, and after awhile they had a sexless marriage.

He was in cahoots with a crooked lawyer who invested all her money and then lost it. Also signed her to a TV show that she didn't want to do.

And lastly he was anything but a handsome man. I don't know what she saw in him.

another vote for the "Boat"

"Calamity Jane" was the best movie she made while under contract to Warner Bros. It also starred the delicious Howard Keel. And she sang one of her great signature songs in the film, "Secret Love".

He must’ve had a third leg, r41.

R43 Once I had a Secret Love...….

R18 “Ten Cents a Dance” was written in 1930 and popularized by Ruth Etting, the singer and actress whose life “Love Me or Leave Me” is based on. The song and the film are not ripping off Garland or “A Star is Born”.

My favorite is Calamity Jane.

I'll give you a part. Right down the centre of your skull!

[quote]My mother loved her and was beside herself when she died.

Huh?

Best film: Love Me Or Leave Me (but I haven't seen Pajama Game, which would probably take top spot for best film). Favorite film: The Glass Bottom Boat. It's utterly stupid, but very funny. Plus that hunky bastard Rod Taylor!

Handsome Howard Keel in Calamity Jane. She marries him in the movie even though Calamity was a lesbian in real life.

Best: Pajama Game - perfect transfer of a Broadway classic

Favorite: Glass Bottom Boat - full of indelible character actors, including Paul Lynde in drag

"[She] was beside herself when she died."

How did she manage to do that?

I’ve never seen The PajamaGame. Why is it never on TCM?

Where were you when the lights went out is also never on TCM.

Time for an angry email campaign!!

It's really not that good r55. Certainly not worth a campaign.

Maybe R51, but Calamity Jane claimed (in her autobiography) that she was married to him (Wild Bill Hickok).

[quote] "[She] was beside herself when she died."

Everyone knows that Miss Day died 10 years ago in a horrific attack by a rescue animal she was trying to save. The old woman they've been parading around on her balcony is a hired actress to keep the royalties coming in.

"That Touch of Mink" opposite Cary Grant. Audrey Meadows steals every scene she's in. This is my favorite Doris movie.

"Teacher's Pet" opposite Clark Gable, although it's painful to watch Gable looking so old before his time. Also, she sings the silly little theme song quite well.

Her best is arguably "Pillow Talk," because it broke her out as an A-list movie star. She reigned at the box office for 5 years after it.

TEACHER'S PET

I WANNA BE

TEACHER'S PET

I WANNA BRING HOME -A

DIPLOMA

I love fucking with the grammar trolls, besides whoever else.

R29, Doris may not have wanted to make "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?", but she had a major fling with co-star Patrick O'Neal.

She's great in The Man Who Knew Too Much.

“Pillow Talk” - Doris, Rock, Thelma, and Tony are all fabulous, but so is Perry Blackwell, the pianist/chanteuse in the cocktail lounge. She sings “I Need No Atmosphere,” “Roly Poly,” and my fave: “You Lied.”

“You lied, you dog And you’ll be SO-OR-RY! You lied, you hound And that’s not fair...”

That's a very funny scene, R64

[italic]Pillow Talk[/italic] is her best. Three-way tie among [italic]the Thrill of It All, Please Don't Eat the Daisies[/italic] and [italic]with Six You Get Eggroll.[/italic]

Best: (3-way Tie) "Love me or Leave Me" and "Pajama Game" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much"

Some overlooked ones: "It's a Great Feeling" with Jack Carson - very funny with lots of great cameos by Warner Bros. stars, and "My Dream is Yours" with Danny Thomas - very understated but lovely

Favorites: Oh, ok, "Pillow Talk" and "Romance on the High Seas" (besides the singing chops, Doris really had the right energy and acting all there in her very first entrance in the travel agency scene)

I meant "I'll See You in My Dreams" with Danny Thomas - lovely bio of lyricist Gus Kahn

So if we've learned nothing else from this thread, it can be gleaned that Marty Melcher=Gary Morton

I haven't seen that many Doris Day films, but I do enjoy Young at Heart with Uncle Frank.

R68, yes it is. Directed by the great and versatile Michael Curtiz, IIRC (Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, some Flynns).

R69, that also had poor Gig Young, who ended up in a lot of other DD films. AND Dorothy Malone!

Worst: "Tunnel of Love" with Richard Widmark.

This is one of my favorite scenes from Doris Day movies. It is Perry Blackwell singing a song snippet "you lied, you dog, and you'll be sorry, you lied, you hound, and that's not fair." Love the sexy wink Rock Hudson gives.

For r64......

"So if we've learned nothing else from this thread, it can be gleaned that Marty Melcher=Gary Morton"

In no way, shape or form, r69

Doris was one swell hoofer.

the titles on TCM that come up that are unfamiliar / always amazed at her star quality even when she's struggling with lousy material .... you really can't take your eyes off her most of time.

AND she's good to animals!

pillow talk, lover come back, love me or leave me

However, she could be a real bitch on talk shows so I would have to separate the real DD from the film star personality.

There is a film she made with Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, and Steve Cochran called " Storm Warning"-1951. Doris plays Ginger's little sister. Ginger is visiting her when she witnesses a Klan lynching. She then realizes that her brother-in-law is one of the Klan members. If you wonder if Doris can really act watch this film. The scene where she is trying to decide whether to believe her sister and leave her husband, or stay, is heartbreaking. It's also a good Ginger Rogers movie. And Reagan plays the male hero.

I always wondered what ever happened to the chubbette who's in this number with Doris.

Not one of her films, but my favorite Doris Day song.

R80 She's Chrissy Metz's mother.

R79, I read somewhere that the film takes some of its dynamics from Streetcar, also produced by WB at about the same time---visiting sister, tension with loutish brother in law, pregnant other sister torn between the two. That's hunky Steve Cockran between the two gals.

DD was in a bad car accident as a teenager, so her Terpsichorean skills are especially impressive.

I think mention has been made elsewhere of the wonderful recording DD made with Previn at the piano. Just great.

Doris originally wanted to be a dancer and had a male partner (what ever happened to him) when she was indeed in a very bad car accident. Was her partner injured as well? Anyway, while Doris was recuperating at home in bed, she used to sing along to the radio, got good feedback and started pursuing singing with bands. I think she actually attended dance classes in Cincinnati along with Vera-Ellen, so she was in great company. I think she does some of her best and most complicated dance numbers in her films with Gene Nelson. Besides the one posted above, her title number in "Lullaby of Broadway", especially the portion on the stairway steps, is really outstanding and looks really difficult.

No love for "Move Over Darling"?

I used to think it was hilarious when I was a kid, well before I saw the original "My Favorite Wife", but you can't beat Polly Bergen!

"...you can't beat Polly Bergin!"

I BEG your pardon.

Her first movie, "Romance on the High Seas," is eye candy. I love it.

On Moonlight Bay and its sequel By The Light of the Silvery Moon. Charming family musical comedies set in the 1910s.

R88, and Janis Paige is still with us (knock wood) and recently wrote, re. MeToo, an open letter to the L.A. Times about how Alfred Bloomingdale was inappropriate with her 75 years ago.

Impostor at r87!!!

She is reported in some Vanity Fair article to have said about her fourth husband of five years, Barry Comden, that he was well hung, and that countered a lot of his deficiencies. (At least for five years.)