Doris Day, classic or dud?

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.