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Doris Day: Pillow Talk
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Each year, from 1948 until 1964, Doris Day was listed among the top ten box office attractions -- the longest run of any female star in motion picture history. In 1989, she was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for her work over the years, and in 1991, she was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Comedy Awards. Called “the most under-rated star of all time, since she could do so much and make it all look so easy,” the range of Doris Day's work was without peer. She could sing and dance and act in films as different from each other as “Calamity Jane” and “Love Me Or Leave Me,” while playing everyone's dream girl next door, to the career women she portrayed in comedies such as “Pillow Talk,” “Lover Come Back” and “The Thrill of It All.”
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In 1959, Day entered her most successful phase as a film actress with a series of romantic comedies, starting with the hugely popular Pillow Talk, co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong friend. The film received positive reviews and was a box office favorite. It ... brought a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Doris and Rock made two more films together, and she also made two with James Garner, starting with 1963's The Thrill of It All. Many of her 1960s films ignored her singing abilities and painted her as a good-hearted woman with a hint of naïveté and the purest virtue. Algonquin Round Table wit Oscar Levant, who had known Day earlier in her career, summed up the paradox of Day's late-blooming ingenue phase when he famously said, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
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As if this isn't enough Doris Day for you, Paramount Home Video has released TEACHER'S PET (1958), a prototype for the kind of sex comedy she would start making with Rock Hudson the following year with PILLOW TALK. Clark Gable plays a cantankerous newspaper editor who assumes the nom de plume of “Gallagher” to take a class with journalism teacher Doris. Gig Young plays the third wheel in the romantic triangle as an over-intellectual writer, in a part that earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Gable was 57 when he made this movie (he would die three years later) and despite the 23-year-old age difference, he sparks quite nicely with his co-star. George Seaton (MIRACLE ON 34 TH STREET, THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR) directed, and truly anticipates the Doris Day-Rock Hudson pictures. It's a lot of fun, especially for Gable fans.
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In 2003, Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger starred in the film Down With Love, which was touted as a throwback to the old "Rock Hudson and Doris Day" romantic comedies. In many ways, the film is almost a remake of Day's film Pillow Talk.
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There has been a lot of talk (over the years) about a special Oscar for Miss Day and with the upcoming Academy Awards, the “talk” has started again. Day should have been honored by all of these organizations long before now. They’ve waited until she’s in her 80s. How cruel can they be?
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