Happy Heavenly 100th, Doris Day!

Somewhere I read that Day was either considered for or offered the part of Mrs Robinson in "The Graduate". Bancroft was great in the role but I have to wonder if Day taking a role that was so different from her previous roles would have had an uplifting effect on her career.

In the book, the Robinsons were satirized as "perfect" California blondes. I think DD would have brought something interesting to the part. And it would have given a her career a boost, just as the then-risque Pillow Talk did nearly a decade earlier...

I miss Clark Gable

The song.

Here is Doris modeling a bikini on her CBS series in 1973, six years after "The Graduate" and looking very sexy at 51. I think she could have handled the role of Mrs. Robinson in a very appealing way.

Thanks for posting the clip of DD spoofing Mamie's night club tune, Doris gets to shimmy her fine form here!

Here's Doris on the tonight show, sporting no bra and far less layed on hair and makeup than her movies... and looking fine at 52. Also, talking about her love of dogs in this clip...

I like Day's singing, but as far as acting goes she was no Anne Bancroft.

TCM has on a Doris Day special today, as well as some of her movies and some episodes of her tv show.

I just love her movies. I remember how luminous she always looks on those glorious technicolor films.

(r8) Thank goodness. I love Anne but always felt "The Graduate" was one of her most annoying performances and never understood the connection between her character and Benjamin. Doris would have been much more believable had she listened to her director (Mike Nichols) and not reverted to type.

I always thought Mrs. Robinson could do much better.

Dear Doris,

I'm running down a spiral staircase in your honor today.

Here's the fun titles sequence with Doris singing the theme song, too bad this film wasn't in color, one of the few DD movies that was in B/W.

(r14) The decision to shoot in black and white was made because of Clark Gable. It was felt that he looked better in b/w because color made him look even older than his actual age and created even more of an on-screen disparity between him and Doris. The same decision was made regarding Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn for "Love in the Afternoon".

[quote]The next year's "Pillow Talk" boasted a "new" Doris Day

But was it a vital...daring Day?

Is that "daring Day" from "Julie," which made her the most hysterical stewardess since Karen Black in "Airport '75?'

Ahem, Doris was the template for the hysterical stewardess, excuse me! Karen Black and the others came after.

Reply 18, Whenever Doris was in Screaming Mimi mode like Julie, Man Who Knew Too Much, or Midnight Lace, my Mother always left the room!

Yes, r17.

r5...

In the '70s Doris Day looked better than most of her contemporaries. Here she is at 53, singing a tribute to her leading men. Love it when they show Kirk Douglas for the line "what's too painful to remember!"

I watched old Doris Day specials and some of her old tv episodes tonight; she and John Denver (and Perry Como) and Kaye Ballard, were good company, and I don't regret it one bit.

She took more cocks than most in Hollywood, allegedly.

Considering what creeps her husbands were, I hope Doris enjoyed every one of the dicks she took...

Watching Gig Young with Doris and Clark in Teacher's Pet - and with Cary & Doris in That Touch of Mink - makes me wish that Gig had done the Doris-Rock movies instead the annoying Tony Randall.

I'm Beverly Boyer...