December 22, 2003
It's not fun unless it's Doris Day!
I confess: I love Doris Day movies. When I come across one on a movie channel, I am transfixed. No, it's not the way that she sings "Que Sera Sera" in every film, it's the sheer lightheartedness of the entire affair. Thus, Doris ranks first with me -- right up there with Kelly/Sinatra movie musicals. (Pause in appreciation of On the Town. I wish Doris were in that one.) So, for your movie enjoyment...
Julie's List of Fun Doris Day Films
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies In this film, Day's character is married to an irritable theater critic who is getting too big for his britches. They move the family to the country, where she manages to redecorate a ramshackle house in only a week, while producing a play for charity! Plus, she frequently locks her toddler son in a cage. What fun!
- Glass Bottom Boat One of the best -- this time it's Doris Day does spy flick. Look for state-of-the-art vacuum cleaners, bugged Spanish olives, guy-on-guy action, and a certain Soviet named Vladimir.
- The Thrill of It All Not to be confused with Please Don't Eat the Daisies, this time Doris plays a housewife turned soap commercial diva. Hot dog! Except for the slight anti-feminist agenda about working mothers/wives...
- Send Me No Flowers The only Rock Hudson to make the list. Hudson plays a hypochondriac who thinks he's going to die. He consequently attempts to set up Day's character with a new husband, and as to be expected, Tony Randall steals the show.
- Caprice This is a whacked-out Day film. You'll be wondering if your face powder can be melted into the next crack cocaine after watching it.
- The Man Who Knew Too Much Yup, "Que Sera Sera" is in a Hitchcock film. This makes the list only because Jimmy Stewart (second to George Washington in the "main squeeze who also happens to be dead" department) takes a starring role.
What? You didn't see
Pillow Talk or
The Pajama Game on the list? Well, fortunes conspired against me seeing
Pillow Talk on the free channels.
The Pajama Game? Not watching it...bad experience with the live version. Day's role was played by someone who looked like one of my grade school cafeteria ladies.
Side note: Until my freshman year of college, I often confused Doris Day with Dorothy Day. Ooops.
Posted by Julie Young at December 22, 2003 11:42 PM
Whenever you say something we read is "cheesy" in one of my classes again, I will remember this blog entry. ;-) But seriously: The Man Who Knew Too Much is a classic! Good catch. And I remember Please Don't Eat the Daisies from when I was a kid.
I have never seen any of these films! Clearly I must make a trip to Blockbuster during my time off from work this week :-)
Doris Day.
pleeze, pleeze don't eat the daisies pleeze, pleeze...
What a wonderful trip down classic film memory lane.
But seriously, isn't locking your kid in a cage against the law? hehehe
in how many films did doris day sing que sera sera ?