Pillow Talk

By Jean Louis. Was he really French or faux like Trey Gay?

He was really French.

The apartment she redecorates for Brad Allen should have its own Tasteful Friends thread.

This movie has the best "discovery" scene, when Jan (Doris Day) discovers the true identify of Rex (Rock Hudson). Really a classic scene.

Oh, FFS, I meant "discovers the true identity of...".

Doris Day's facial expressions in this movie were great along with some of Tony's lines.

Thelma Ritter should have won the Oscar

BEDROOM PROBLEMS!

I really do wish they would start making more movies like this again and stop with all the superhero shit but, then again, I don't know who they would get to star in them because most "actors" these days don't have that "it" nor the ability to do this type of comedy.

An excellent script 👍👍

[quote]I really do wish they would start making more movies like this again and stop with all the superhero shit but, then again, I don't know who they would get to star in them because most "actors" these days don't have that "it" nor the ability to do this type of comedy.

That movie sucked R11.

I've watched [italic]Pillow Talk[/italic] a few times, but I've never wanted to watch [italic]Lover, Come Back[/italic] or [/italic]Send Me No Flowers[/italic]. The quality of the character actors brought out the best in Hudson, Day and Randall. Thelma Ritter, whom we discuss regularly, Marcel Dalio, Lee Patric and Nick Adams were all quite good actors. Throw in singer Perry Blackwell and you have a classic comedy.

I remember watching this for the first time when I was a kid. My mother would always watch tv while doing the ironing and one day this came on. I thought Doris Day was the picture of glamour with all her jewels, evening gowns and lifestyle. For years, I wanted to go to one of those old timey nightclubs.

Here's a little known memo regarding this. A sequel was planned for this movie in 1980 but never went through.

R13, you should at least give Lover Come Back a try. It is just as good as Pillow Talk.

[quote][R13], you should at least give Lover Come Back a try. It is just as good as Pillow Talk.

Agreed. SEND ME NO FLOWERS doesn't have the same spark because they're playing a married couple so the witty banter is missing.

Of her comedies Lover Come Back is the best.

I think "The Thrill of It All" is great. I rewatch it every time it's on TCM.

Well, I have no taste but I like Glass Bottom Boat, if only for Paul Lynde in hideous drag and Dom de Luise.

R19 Even in her lesser films she's always a delight to watch.

I love the piano bar scene with "Roly Poly". I could write a dissertation on it!

Would a virgin 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 let people think she was not wearing a bra ?

[Quote] I love the piano bar scene with "Roly Poly". I could write a dissertation on it!

Me too! Who was that singer at the piano? Looked a bit like Gladys Knight.

Hazel Scott, I believe.

I always liked this number from "Please Don't Eat the Daisies."

Thank you r24

Tony Randall was never better.

I also have a soft spot for “The Glass Bottom Boat”

SO Many great character actors:

The aforementioned Paul Lynde and Don Deluise, but also Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, EdwArd Andrews, Dick Martin, George Tobias, Alice Pearce and Ellen Corby.

A veritable cross section of working 60s character actors.

If only Charl s Lane were in it.

Fun Fact: Pillow Talk was directed by Michael Gordon, grandfather of DL fave Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

R28, my father was in WWII with Charles Lane. Said he was lazy, but a nice guy and very funny.

Lane couldn't have been that lazy. Not just anybody could put Stalin in his place.

Rock was so hot.

Pillow Talk is by far the best of the three films she made with Rock, but the other two are worth a watch. The Thrill of it All has some sharp satire about TV, but that's balanced by James Garner's character being a contemptible asshole. James Garner of all people!

Down With Love was cute but it's hardly contemporary. It was released 17 years ago! I'd like to see a resurgence of GOOD romantic comedies, myself. Enough with the tentpole flicks, already.

The NYTimes' A.O. Scott reviews "Love Come Back" of her films with Rock he considers this the best of the three.

Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in Down With Love look like undernourished children trying to pretend they're Doris Day and Rock Hudson. McGregor especially looked like a runt, not the least bit like he-man Rock. And Renee got so thin, she about disappeared in the Jean Louis-style wardrobe she wore.

[quote]A sequel was planned for this movie in 1980 but never went through.

Let me guess: Pillow Fight?

R11 Ewan McGregor was an abomination

Roly Poly

Too funny

[Quote]I think "The Thrill of It All" is great. I rewatch it every time it's on TCM.

R18 Hi, Arlene!

I love Rock's ultra hip bachelor pad with the spiral staircase and the seduction technology (lights, record player, etc. ). True inspiration for Quagmire's place in Family Guy!

Of course Doris Day is shocked and horrified at his sex luring lady trap. She is a designer after all! Oh, and she is practically the only one at the piano bar without Betty Page bangs. DD keeps her shit tight!

[Quote] A sequel was planned for this movie in 1980 but never went through. Let me guess: Pillow Fight?

Next: Dirty Pillows.

You can't do sly sophisticated come today. Would there be an audience?

Look how gross and heavy handed.

*comedy

Pillow Talk was Doris Day's only Oscar nomination.

1959 (32nd)

Nominee ACTRESS -- Doris Day {"Jan Morrow"}

Nominee ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Thelma Ritter {"Alma"}

Nominee ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Richard H. Riedel; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt

Nominee MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Frank DeVol

*WINNER: WRITING (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) -- Story by Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin

the only laugh I got from it was the credit that butch Doris is dressed by ultra-femme designer Jean Louis. The plot is idiotic. She would have recognised Rock with the same voice straight away, only using an accent, or is she meant to be dim? Plus I thought Thelma Ritter was wasted.

It's a movie R46 and most require suspension of belief.

I think it's great fun and they have chemistry.

I had never seen it not being a Doris Day fan. Had just seen the bits in The Celluloid Closet about Rock being gay playing straight playing gay. I like the split screen bit with the both of them in baths and touching feet, and Tony Randall is tolerable for once and not playing a sissy.

I grew up watching this movie. My mom was a kid when it came out and loved it the first time she saw it.

Love Thelma and Tony. Love the apartments. Love the Roly Poly scene.

I quote Tony on the regular - I may be neurotic, but I’m not crazy!

Not every man ends his sentences with a proposition

Since they share a party line i assumed they were in the same building. But at the end when Rock takes Doris to his apartment he has to walk to another building and carry her down the street.

I thought Pillow Talk was on now, so I turned on TCM.....then, I look at the date of OP's post...5/10/2020. Geeez.. Old threads keep popping up, have to check the dates. I was in the mood for a good Doris Day movie.

I love both Pillow Talk and Glass Bottom Boat. I need to spend a whole day watching Doris Day movies, her death was very sad. She was the toast of mid-century cinema. And as a singer.

[quote]I thought Pillow Talk was on now, so I turned on TCM.....then, I look at the date of OP's post...5/10/2020. Geeez.. Old threads keep popping up, have to check the dates. I was in the mood for a good Doris Day movie.

Doris was the Star of the Month for March (2021) and it was a couple of weeks back. In fact, they showed all three Doris-Rock pictures back-to-back.

Pillow Talk is one of my favorite movies - the sets, the Technicolor, the hyper-mod designs, Gay man acting straight acting gay. Like a nice warm bubble bath - comforting, calming and relaxing,

I love this movie, one of my all-time favs; the craftsmanship is so refreshing, and all the actors are great!

I liked Doris Day's early movies, but I think her best movies were in the 60s. She had great chemistry with Hudson, Garner and Lemmon. I think Jack Lemmon said that she was his favorite actress to work with...maybe I heard it on TCM. Excellent comedic actress, and I can imagine she was a lot of fun.

IMD credits Dorothy Abbott for the role of the singer. / Roly Poly, You Lied / Interestingly, she's also listed for two other Doris Day vehicles, "That Touch of Mink," uncredited, and an appearance as a dancer in "Love Me or Leave Me." Her other film credits, although bit parts, are impressive due to the importance of the films involved: "The Apartment," "Rebel Without a Cause," "Jailhouse Rock," and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." Her bio states that she died in 1968, with suicide listed as the cause of deathI

I listen to a 40's station from time to time. It is interesting to hear some of her early big band stuff and compare it to the style that she used once she was a movie star playing the feisty good girl. Obviously a different style of music, changes in recording technology, and she is older, and not that she was vamping out in the older stuff, but she seemed to go more of a bit of sultry sound in some of her early songs.

Power rankings of Doris Day movies.

1. The Thrill of it All

2. Pillow Talk

3. Send Me No Flowers

4. Glass Bottom Boat

5. That Touch of Mink

6. It Happened to Jane

Best interiors, The Thrill of it All followed by Send Me No Flowers

I'm Beverly Boyer and I'm a pig.

Lol!^^

r60 I'd rate "Lover Come Back" higher than "Send Me No Flowers," among the Doris-Rock collaborations.

R63, R60 here. After thinking about it, you are correct about that.

Is Lover Come Back the one with VIP?

r65 Yes.

R60, I don't know how you could leave Calamity Jane or Love Me or Leave Me off your list. I might even have included Midnight Lace as a guilty pleasure.

It's a Great Feeling with Jack Carson is the best of her early pictures, lots of inside-Hollywood jokes, and a classic bit with Joan Crawford.

I also have a special place on the pedestal for Teacher's Pet, an overlooked gem with Clark Gable, Gig Young and an irrepressible Mamie Van Doren in probably in her best film role. It's a movie that actually is about something, no mindless froth here yet still funny and romantic, and is relevant even today. Nominated for two Oscars, for writing and for supporting actor (Gig Young). Highly recommended.

I always think of 1959's Pillow Talk as the first 1960s style comedy. It just didn't look or move like anything before it. At least not that I can think of.

For you Doris Day fans, "Love Me or Leave Me," with James Cagney, is worth a look. She plays a nightclub singer and her number "Chasin' the Blues Away" is a showstopper.

The Glass Bottom Boat is my all time favorite Doris Day comedy movie - the slapstick in it was priceless and so well done. And Calamity Jane is the best/greatest movie that she ever did while under contract to Warner Bros.

R70 Doris and Dom hamming it up in Glass Bottom Boat - a great, truly funny scene!

I just watched Lover Come Back. Doris' soft focus close-ups are rather obvious.

But it does have Ann. B. Davis!

Send Me No Flowers has my favorite opening title sequence of a Day film. It's also a pretty funny movie.

Let us not forget...JULIE

[quote]Doris' soft focus close-ups are rather obvious.

Oh, shut up!

Calamity Jane is a masterpiece of labisian overtones! Love it!