― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 14 August 2003 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 14 August 2003 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 14 August 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 14 August 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 August 2003 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 14 August 2003 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
i totally heart DD
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 August 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
As for all those wink-wink "sex romp with a blushing virgin" films she made with Rock Hudson, they're entertaining, providing you've been innoculated aganst the 1950s virus, but I think impressionable children should not watch them without an adult who recalls the harrowing 1960s.
Granted, I don't Doris should be held accountable for the 1950s. They weren't her fault. I blame Hugh Hefner much more. So, classic.
― Aimless, Friday, 15 August 2003 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 15 August 2003 01:18 (twenty years ago) link
Fine arrangements
Flawless vocal delivery
Irresistible looks
― the pinefox, Friday, 15 August 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
OH GOD I AM HAVING MULTIPLE DORIS DAY ORGASMS DRUNKEN RANDOM DORIS DAY SHUFFLE YES YES YES OH
She's a class act, and what a sweet set of pipes. Hello angels, am I in heaven? Yes indeed!
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Saturday, 26 January 2008 07:23 (sixteen years ago) link
PLUS, GAUNTLET SUCKS AND SO DOES SPY HUNTER. DEFENDER IS OK.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Saturday, 26 January 2008 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
from her quiet retirement in Carmel:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-morrison-doris-day-20110107,0,3792060,full.column
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know (or maybe I just forgot) Terry Melcher was dead.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Pillow Talk drags when it tries to be funny and perky.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
yer probably more a Lover Come Back type
Send Me No Flowers has Paul Lynde
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
“After a 47-year absence, Doris Day might be heading back to the big screen in a new film directed by Clint Eastwood.” Citing a story in the German tabloid Bild, the Guardian‘s Benjamin Lee reports that Eastwood, 85, has approached Day, 91, with a screenplay. “It’s unknown what the role is but she is allegedly delighted with the opportunity and is involved in negotiations to make a return. She has allegedly made two demands: the film must be shot in Carmel and a cut of the profits must go to her animal welfare charity. Her last film was the 1968 romantic comedy With Six You Get Eggroll.”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/22/doris-day-out-retirement-clint-eastwood
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
Saw this yesterday. Didn't get too excited because of the weird source, but we'll see.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
Had not really thought about it before, but of course she's only 6 years older than Eastwood.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
i'm hoping they're c-starring in a remake of The Night Porter.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
"Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being that with six you get eggroll, and I know you love eggrolls, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?"
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
http://deadline.com/2015/09/not-true-doris-day-quashes-rumor-of-new-film-with-clint-eastwood-1201544425/
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
such an amazing singer.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
damn, was looking forward to her popping up in Star Wars VIII.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 10:55 (eight years ago) link
turned 92 on Sunday, shared a pic
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/05/entertainment/doris-day-feat/index.html
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
happy 97th! (she is two years older than we thought she was)
Two links for Doris Day's birthday: I wrote about LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME for @FilmComment , a career best for Day. Harrowing film about an abusive relationship. Two brilliant performances from Day and Cagney. #DorisDay #JamesCagney https://t.co/jpJ0eDpCFV pic.twitter.com/uZecxEbuRU— Sheila O'Malley (@sheilakathleen) April 3, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
I had no idea until this year that she had sung harmony vocals on her son Terry Melcher's version of "These Days" in 1974.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH1WSeH1KMQ
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
92 in 2016, 97 today wow the years do go by quicker the older you get
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
somebody found a birth cert, I think
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/13/calamity-jane-star-doris-day-dies-at-97
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
Have only seen 5 of her films, incredibly. Head and shoulders among those are The Man Who Knew Too Much and Love Me or Leave Me; after that I'd go with The Pajama Game, then Pillow Talk.
Just reserved Calamity Jane (set in Deadwood!) and Lover Come Back.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
Have also heard good things about Midnight Lace, a thriller she made in 1960:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Lace
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 May 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
I like The Thrill of It All w/James Garner
― Josefa, Monday, 13 May 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
Love Me or Leave Me is a minor masterpiece, by my estimation.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 May 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
Her 1975 semi-autobiography Her Own Story is incredible and may give the reader a completely different perspective on her life
― Josefa, Monday, 13 May 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Despite the often awful material she accepted (not that she had other options), I found her the most intelligent person in them; there's a no-nonsense vigor she projects, which at worst hardened into the inflexibility that later generations would smirk at. I would love to have seen her acting in her sixties or seventies.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 May 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
xp Art Pepper’s fantastic Straight Life also gives a very different portrait from their day’s touring together, pre-girl next door Hollywood.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 13 May 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
My favorite Doris movie is Send Me No Flowers; my wife, a devoted fan, says the best is Calamity Jane.
Any recommendations for Doris on record? I've heard one compilation of early material that was pretty swinging.
― Brad C., Monday, 13 May 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
The stuff with the Les Brown orchestra is all great, the entirety of which is available in a two-disc set
― Josefa, Monday, 13 May 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
RIP Doris Day. This is one of my favorite numbers from THE PAJAMA GAME, which is just phenomenal: https://t.co/VS0oToEae6— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) May 13, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 May 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
I am no fan of musicals, but the songs from Calamity Jane have been lurking in my subconscious for thirty years or so, and for good reason.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
outstanding AO Scott analysis of Doris' persona in NYT today, dispenses with that "wholesome" nonsense
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Sheila O'Malley too.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
roundup
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6360-doris-day-iconic-irrepressible-misunderstood
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 May 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
Calamity Jane is a cute variation on Annie Get Your Gun -- the songs are nowhere near as good, of course, including "Secret Love" -- but there's the inevitable disappointment when Jane turns girly.
Allyn Ann McLerie, as her rival, was big on Broadway right after the war, and I remember her as a very funny acerbic secretary on "The Tony Randall Show" (1976-78).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
“Secret Love” has become a standard, but I still haven’t come around to really liking it.
― TS The Students vs The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
me neither, but DD sells it
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Allyn Ann McLerieDon’t remember her on The Tony Randall Show. Do remember Rachel Roberts though.
― TS The Students vs The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
yes!
Redford and Syd Pollack used McLerie a lot... All the President's Men, Jeremiah Johnson, They Shoot Horses...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
TCM is airing Calamity Jane in June along with some other Day titles. I'm curious about it, but I'm also in the middle of a Deadwood re-watch (in anticipation of the movie) and I suspect that the contrast between Day's portrayal of the character and Robin Weight's would be...jarring.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Sunday, 26 May 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
*Weigert
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Sunday, 26 May 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Day is fairly close to that for the first 2/3 of the film... close as she can get anyway
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 May 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
I rewatched Midnight Lace last week. Dreary woman-endangered stuff, a sub Sorry, Worry Number. Rex Harrison looks pickled.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 May 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
And that was before he and Rachel Roberts got married.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 May 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
exactly
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 May 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Tbh neither one of them came off too well in Me Cheeta.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 May 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
Also have been thinking that the guy who wrote the lyrics for “Secret Love” also wrote the well-known set of lyrics in bold here
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 May 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
Doris Day played Annie Oakley in a TV production of of Annie Get Your Gun. Robert Goulet plays Buffalo Bill. Soundtrack is hokey compared to other versions but still good because of Doris. (Best version is the Kim Criswell Broadway version from early 90s imo.)
― everything, Sunday, 26 May 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
Lover Come Back is more bizarre than funny, but it gets full credit for slipping the Production Code a mickey. Pretty queer with Rock, Tony Randall and Ann B Davis on hand.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
when DD discovers Rock's deception, she does a great quadruple take
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
I just got done with the "You Must Remember This" Manson season. Among the things I learned was how discreetly important Martin Melcher's death in '68 was to what happened afterward: Terry Melcher discovers his step-father's mis-management of his mother's finances, moves himself and then-girlfriend Candice Bergen out of Cielo Drive and into Malibu so he can be close to Day and try to fix the mess, conveniently ghosting Manson in the process, and allowing Polanski and Tate to move in at their old address.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
Pillow Talk would trigger many snowflakes...
Tony Randall *slaps* DD. Both he and Rock get their comeuppances.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 August 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
/Lover Come Back/ is more bizarre than funny, but it gets full credit for slipping the Production Code a mickey. Pretty queer with Rock, Tony Randall and Ann B Davis on hand.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link
c'mon, you know he was the third wheel in those movies? He rose to fame in the '50s on TV's "Mr Peepers" (starring Wally Cox).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 August 2019 06:38 (four years ago) link
Of course I knew that. I thought you were intimating that Love, Sidney hit closer to home than I had realized.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 06:53 (four years ago) link
well, the Randall widow says they had a very healthy sex life, and that TR always thought of himself as a paragon of heterosexuality.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 August 2019 07:29 (four years ago) link
Probably true. Thought I heard some story that when they were casting Gloria Unger and he first saw Janis Hansen he said “only Felix would divorce that!”
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 07:44 (four years ago) link
btw Pillow Talk was directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's grandfather, Michael Gordon
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
That Touch of Mink is fascinating principally bcz it was clearly written as a Rock-DD entry, but Cary Grant plays Rock and Gig Young plays Tony Randall (mistaken for gay by his analyst). Cary elevates it performancewise, but the smarmy triple-entendres seem beneath him after all the Hawks and Cukor comedies. (Comedian Joey Faye even gets in a wife-belting crack.) Also, Doris and Audrey (Honeymoooners) Meadows, who is a sassy Automat staffer, are roommates in NYC, I guess playing 15 years younger than they actually were? And John Astin as a perv unemployment clerk!
These movies are so damn filthy.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 November 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
I watched It Happened to Jane (d. Richard Quine, 1959) last night, which is OK. Doris is a smalltown Maine widow and mother who gets litigious when he shipment of lobsters dies due to railroad malfeasance (no, really). Ernie Kovacs greatly enjoying playing a villainous bald tycoon. Best scene is DD coercing Jack Lemmon into proposing to her when she's on top of a moving freight train.
Connecticut plays Maine, and young Gene Rayburn has a small role as a TV reporter.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
*her shipment of lobsters
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMY5HnL4qM
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
watching CALAMITY JANE (1953)
everyone is shouting but she is too spunky to care
― mark s, Monday, 3 January 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
Lol
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 20:15 (two years ago) link
I watched something over the summer, live-blogged it here, where she got hired by NASA to work for Rod Taylor after having worked as a mermaid to promote her father’s (fishing?) boat and foils a spy plot in which Kenneth Mars(?) plants - and eats(?!) bugs, which was called…memory feats don’t fail me now!…um…
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
1963…A Mermaid, Whatever Will Be
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
whip crackaway whip crackaway whip crackaway
― mark s, Monday, 3 January 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NePF08sMSDAAbout 1:00
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
^kind of hate that movie apart from this one scene.
Not Kenneth Mars, but Dom DeLuise and Paul Lynde. ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: Voting And Campaigning Thread (Ballots Due Like I Dunno Maybe March 1, 2021?)The Glass Bottom Boat, directed by Frank Tashlin.https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-glass-bottom-boat/
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
Interesting to see a Terry Melcher version of "These Days" upthread with his mom singing harmony. I never could hear the words before. #OneThreadSeveralMonthsApart
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 21:00 (two years ago) link
this is the kind of thing morbs (rip 😢) used to roar at ppl for but it's never not weird enjoying cultural items so packed with reference to events that just land differently these days (the civil war, the indians wars)
TIL that wild bill hickok's dad was very likely involved in the underground railroad and hickok was anti-slavery but he also rode w/custer
― mark s, Monday, 3 January 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
he's kind of a dick in the movie mind you
― mark s, Monday, 3 January 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZWHSdymCc
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
tghats right
― mark s, Monday, 3 January 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
never not weird enjoying cultural items Watched quite a bit of a Bob Hope special the other day so yeah (and also RIP Morbs)
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
Has she song "Secret Love" yet?
Sung. Song sung blue.Such a weird songwriting team.
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link
Can we be shown Mike Love singing "Secret Love" with Terry Melcher.
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
she has: i got proxy chills when it turned uo bcz the super-intense sinead version is a favourite and i wasn't expecting it bcz this is my first ever encounter with this as a film or as a musical and i only knew the hopalong classics
i feel like i need to rewatch very soon, i know from being a well informed type this is a famously very extremely queer text but i really hadn't quite anticipated how very extremely, katie brown shd have been called polly cule
― mark s, Monday, 3 January 2022 22:02 (two years ago) link
(proxy bcz DD's version is fine but not the reading i was hoping for i guess, after everything rhat goes before it: a bit too much like sailing calmly into harbour (which is not what the future promises) (as a side character actually says lol)
― mark s, Monday, 3 January 2022 22:04 (two years ago) link
turned uoThis seems to me to be grebt typo that should reused.
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME on TCM right now. “Ten Cents a Dance” is great!
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 November 2023 22:58 (six months ago) link
Oscar for Best Story to Daniel Fuchs!
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 November 2023 23:03 (six months ago) link
His The Golden West: Hollywood Stories is awesome.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 November 2023 23:04 (six months ago) link
Don’t use your ritzy Ziegfeld voice on me!
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 November 2023 06:12 (five months ago) link
That was intense. Will try to sleep and ponder.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 November 2023 09:19 (five months ago) link
Pretty good portrayal of that kind of relationship, I guess.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 November 2023 14:12 (five months ago) link
And I don’t mind Doris Day’s singing but it is still sort of an acquired taste for me. There is an interesting paragraph in Will Friedwald’s big book of singers about how she is underrated where he first goes through all the other singers that one will think of before her.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 November 2023 14:15 (five months ago) link
Now recalling what Barbara Stanwyck’s friend Oscar Levant said about her.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 November 2023 16:31 (five months ago) link