Twenty One Doris Day Delights.
by brickley220 | created - 11 Jul 2011 | updated - 29 Jul 2011 | PublicBorn Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff on the 3 April 1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Miss Day began her career in show business at fouteen as a dancer. This career was cut short by a car accident which broke her leg and then she began singing with the Les Brown Band after lying about her age. I love her films and have collected many of them, on VHS and DVD, initially for my mother, but I have watched them again and again. When Doris eventually retired from showbusiness she took up a new career protecting animals (a former hobby). Listed in Chronological Order:
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1. Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Passed | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael
Votes: 3,886
The original title was 'Young Man With a Horn' starring Kirk Douglas as trumpet player Rick Martin who nearly loses everything chasing seductive Amy North (Lauren Bacall). Guess which Band Singer is around to pick up the pieces? "That trumpet's part of me. It's the best part. You almost made me forget that." 'Jo Jordan'
2. Tea for Two (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A socialite with aspirations of a career in show business bets her wealthy uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for two days straight, hoping winning will help her fulfill her dreams.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden
Votes: 2,192
Supposedly set against the background of the 1929 'Wall Street Crash' this is a lovely little piece of sweet silliness. No really deep plot involved, just enjoy Doris and Gordon MacRea getting along together. "Day will break and I'm gonna wake and start to bake a sugar cake." 'Nanette Carter'
3. Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A showgirl returns to her New York home to visit her alcoholic mother, where she catches the eye of a Broadway producer.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe
Votes: 1,252
Doris returns from performing overseas expecting to find that her Mother is the toast of Broadway. Lots of nostalgia and singing, like it says on the cover. "This not a Museum. People just do not come in off the street." 'Melinda Howard'
4. On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
During World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Jack Smith, Leon Ames
Votes: 3,058
Teenager tomboy Doris teams up with our Gordon again for another delightful and romantic soundtrack of saccharin. "Marjorie's young and very inexperienced. All she knows about men is their batting averages." 'Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield'
5. April in Paris (1952)
Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin, Eve Miller
Votes: 1,513
A mistake at the State Department, (surely not) is the excuse for fun and frivolity in France. "It's no use, Philippe. I'm in love with the man I married. And he's not even my husband!" 'Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson'
6. By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 2,477
Gordon's back from the War in France and the Winfield/ Sherman romance is back on-off-on??? "But I don't want to be sweet and understanding! I want to be a husband!" 'Marjorie Winfield'
7. Calamity Jane (1953)
Passed | 101 min | Musical, Romance, Western
The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey
Votes: 10,848
It's the one everyone knows and loves; Doris sings, dances, shoots at Indians and falls in the river. "Excitement? Why, I got more arrows in the back of that coach than a porcupine has got stickers!" 'Calamity Jane' (Martha Jane Cannary Burke)
8. Lucky Me (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 895
This is the movie that Doris did not want to make and sometimes it shows. Even on a bad day though, Doris is a great Day! "This is no time to be superstitious. It's bad luck." 'Candy Williams'
9. Young at Heart (1954)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The life of the youngest of three sisters in a musical family is complicated by the separate arrivals of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore
Votes: 2,807
It's like 'Little Women' with music but with Frank Sinatra and Gig Young on set there is never a dull moment. 'Ol' Blue Eyes' had Doris' real husband banned from the sound stage. "It's homes like these that are the backbone of the nation. Where's the spinning wheel?" 'Laurie Tuttle'
10. Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Passed | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith
Votes: 4,741
Based upon a 1920s singer whose rise from the Dance Hall to the Ziegfield Follies was assisted by mobster Marty (The Gimp) Snyder (James Cagney). "I'm what makes you tick and don't you ever forget that." 'Ruth Etting'
11. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles
Votes: 69,555 | Gross: $10.25M
It's murder and mystery time as Doris teams up with James Stewart to thwart an assassination, save their little boy from harm and sing a song or two. "You have muddled everything from the start, taking that child with you from Marrakesh. Don't you realize that Americans dislike having their children stolen?" 'Jo McKenna'
12. The Pajama Game (1957)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Directors: George Abbott, Stanley Donen | Stars: Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 4,107
It really should be called 'The Union Game' as the workers in a nightwear factory negotiate their pay rise to music in Hernando's Hideaway. Great dance routines from Carol Haney and a knife throwing act to die for. "Married life is lots of fun / Two can sleep as cheap as one." 'Katherine 'Babe' Williams'
13. It Happened to Jane (1959)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest
Votes: 3,101
Doris gets her friendly lawyer (Jack Lemmon) to sue the railway for poor service. That's what we need, a song to lighten the load of litigation. "Harry Foster Malone trangressed when he murdered my lobsters." 'Jane Osgood'
14. Pillow Talk (1959)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 19,165 | Gross: $18.75M
With today's technology youngsters would not understand romance via a shared telephone line, it would have to be a vitual tryst by ethernet or mixed up mobiles. "She wasn't a stripper. She was an exotic dancer... with trained doves." 'Jan Morrow'
15. Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Drama professor turned theater critic balances his home life and career when he moves to the country with his wife and their four sons.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington
Votes: 4,928 | Gross: $11.10M
Doris is married to Professor Larry MacKay who has recently become a Drama Critic. She wants to move to the country, he wants the peace and quiet of the city. "How's your wife Mr MacKay...and your Four Children?" 'Kate Robinson Mackay'
16. Lover Come Back (1961)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams
Votes: 8,759 | Gross: $16.94M
Doris is joined by Rock and Tony again, this time in the world of advertising. This is the movie that Ewan and Renee spoofed (paid tribute to) in 'Down With Love' in 2003. "And as Dad always said, "A man who can't be bribed can't be trusted." 'Carol Templeton'
17. Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye
Votes: 1,727
Stephen Boyd is the Beefcake in this complicated story of Circus acts and romance. Will Jimmy lose his Jumbo? "Jumbo's like a son to me. Why you can even see the resemblance." 'Kitty Wonder'
18. The Thrill of It All (1963)
Approved | 108 min | Comedy, Romance
A homemaker's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews
Votes: 5,904 | Gross: $11.78M
Housewife Doris becomes a TV soap star much to the annoyance of her husband Dr. Gerald Boyer (James Garner) and their marriage starts to bubble over. "Wait, I forgot to tell you that we have a pool!" 'Beverly Boyer'
19. Move Over, Darling (1963)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
After being lost at sea for several years, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband has remarried.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 6,488
Doris and James Garner rework the 1940 classic 'My Favourite Wife' with Polly Bergen as the third point of the triangle. "Oh, you are such a comfort, doctor. You know, I truly believe the most vital relationship a woman can establish is not between man and wife. It's the relationship between a woman and her analyst." 'Ellen Wagstaff Arden'
20. Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a hypochondriac believes he is dying, he makes plans for his wife--which she discovers and misunderstands.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde
Votes: 7,390 | Gross: $9.13M
Rock is married to Doris and thinks she is about to become a widow. She thinks that he is trying to hide something more mysterious than his death. "When he tells me he's dying and he doesn't DIE... wouldn't he know that I'd get SUSPICIOUS?" 'Judy'
21. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Romance
After a series of misunderstandings, the head of an aerospace research laboratory begins to suspect that his new girlfriend is a Russian spy.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver
Votes: 5,236
This time it is Rod Taylor who is trying to win and woo Doris, however NASA Security are going to save him, whether he wants them to or not. "May I borrow a dime please? I have to call my dog." 'Jennifer Nelson'
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