Doris Day, classic or dud?

Sheila O'Malley too.

roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6360-doris-day-iconic-irrepressible-misunderstood

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).

“Secret Love” has become a standard, but I still haven’t come around to really liking it.

me neither, but DD sells it

Allyn Ann McLerie
Don’t remember her on The Tony Randall Show. Do remember Rachel Roberts though.

yes!

Redford and Syd Pollack used McLerie a lot... All the President's Men, Jeremiah Johnson, They Shoot Horses...

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.

*Weigert

Day is fairly close to that for the first 2/3 of the film... close as she can get anyway

I rewatched Midnight Lace last week. Dreary woman-endangered stuff, a sub Sorry, Worry Number. Rex Harrison looks pickled.

And that was before he and Rachel Roberts got married.

exactly

Tbh neither one of them came off too well in Me Cheeta.

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

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.)

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.

when DD discovers Rock's deception, she does a great quadruple take

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.

Pillow Talk would trigger many snowflakes...

Tony Randall *slaps* DD. Both he and Rock get their comeuppances.

/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.

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).

Of course I knew that. I thought you were intimating that Love, Sidney hit closer to home than I had realized.

well, the Randall widow says they had a very healthy sex life, and that TR always thought of himself as a paragon of heterosexuality.

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!”

btw Pillow Talk was directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's grandfather, Michael Gordon

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.

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.

*her shipment of lobsters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMY5HnL4qM

watching CALAMITY JANE (1953)

everyone is shouting but she is too spunky to care

Lol

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…

1963…A Mermaid, Whatever Will Be

whip crackaway whip crackaway whip crackaway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NePF08sMSDA
About 1:00

^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/

Interesting to see a Terry Melcher version of "These Days" upthread with his mom singing harmony. I never could hear the words before. #OneThreadSeveralMonthsApart

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

he's kind of a dick in the movie mind you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZWHSdymCc

tghats right

never not weird enjoying cultural items
Watched quite a bit of a Bob Hope special the other day so yeah (and also RIP Morbs)

Has she song "Secret Love" yet?

Sung. Song sung blue.

Such a weird songwriting team.

Can we be shown Mike Love singing "Secret Love" with Terry Melcher.

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

(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)

turned uo
This seems to me to be grebt typo that should reused.

LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME on TCM right now. “Ten Cents a Dance” is great!

Oscar for Best Story to Daniel Fuchs!

His The Golden West: Hollywood Stories is awesome.

Don’t use your ritzy Ziegfeld voice on me!

That was intense. Will try to sleep and ponder.

Pretty good portrayal of that kind of relationship, I guess.

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.

Now recalling what Barbara Stanwyck’s friend Oscar Levant said about her.