What's Your Favorite Day?

[Edgy MD]

You're on a desert island, that remarkably has a film projector, a screen, working power, and reels and reels of old Doris Day films.



You don't want to spend too much time with Doris, what with you needing devote most of every day to survival and pursuing rescue, but when you need to rest at night, you're not above cranking up the projector. What's going to be your go-to film?

[MFS62]

Only one?

Teacher's Pet is a comedy and Pajama Game is a musical.

And I loved them both.

Later

[dgwphotography]

Pillow Talk was my first, and still my favorite.

[Double Switch]

As an ardent Hitchcock aficionado, I must go with the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much even if after a while Que Será Será crawls all over my last nerve. The scene where Bernard Herrmann conducts Storm Clouds Contata stands out. Reggie Nalder, spooky as ever.



The other caveat is that I don't believe I saw any of the other movies listed. Mine was a sheltered childhood, no further explanation necessary.

[Frayed Knot]

I haven't seen many DD films either, although I'm not sure that NOT watching them constitutes a sheltered childhood. In fact, one could argue that it's kind of the opposite.

There's an old joke concerning Doris and the studio-created chaste image that served her for many roles and many years. I can't remember now to whom it was first

attributed, but whoever it was claimed that; 'I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin'.

[Double Switch]

Frayed Knot wrote: I haven't seen many DD films either, although I'm not sure that NOT watching them constitutes a sheltered childhood. In fact, one could argue that it's kind of the opposite. There's an old joke concerning Doris and the studio-created chaste image that served her for many roles and many years. I can't remember now to whom it was first attributed, but whoever it was claimed that; 'I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin'.

Supposedly Oscar Levant said that, which sounds exactly like something he'd have said. Similar to the jibe toward George Gershwin and his long-time love, Kay Swift, whom he never married before he died: "Ah, look! Here comes George Gershwin with the future Miss Kay Swift."



OK, a "sheltered childhood" means, in my case, we didn't have movie options for a lot of my childhood but when we did, it was movies my mother wanted to see. She was not a DD fan. She was not into chick flicks. She tended toward movies such as Mister Roberts, Trapeze, The Greatest Show on Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming; Auntie Mame, stuff like that. So that shelter meant if I was to see a movie, mom wanted to see it and took us kids along. We had no nearby theatre to trot off to.



Sometimes I speak circumspectly.

[Edgy MD]

Double Switch wrote: As an ardent Hitchcock aficionado, I must go with the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much even if after a while Que Será Será crawls all over my last nerve.

It kind of works, doesn't it, though? Singing that goofy song like she has a gun to her head, knowing it may be the salvation or doom of her child, is as tense as it gets.



As with Jimmy Stewart, one of Hitchcock's talents was finding a pained, disquieting dark side even in America's favorite paragons of easy wholesomeness.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Double Switch wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I haven't seen many DD films either, although I'm not sure that NOT watching them constitutes a sheltered childhood. In fact, one could argue that it's kind of the opposite. There's an old joke concerning Doris and the studio-created chaste image that served her for many roles and many years. I can't remember now to whom it was first attributed, but whoever it was claimed that; 'I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin'. Supposedly Oscar Levant said that, which sounds exactly like something he'd have said. Similar to the jibe toward George Gershwin and his long-time love, Kay Swift, whom he never married before he died: "Ah, look! Here comes George Gershwin with the future Miss Kay Swift." OK, a "sheltered childhood" means, in my case, we didn't have movie options for a lot of my childhood but when we did, it was movies my mother wanted to see. She was not a DD fan. She was not into chick flicks. She tended toward movies such as Mister Roberts, Trapeze, The Greatest Show on Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming; Auntie Mame, stuff like that. So that shelter meant if I was to see a movie, mom wanted to see it and took us kids along. We had no nearby theatre to trot off to. Sometimes I speak circumspectly.

That before she was a virgin line is attributed to Levant, and also, Groucho Marx.

[Double Switch]

Since Levant was famous for playing Gershwin's music, I tend to believe he said it first. But who knows.

[Edgy MD]

I love that somebody voted for Calamity Jane, because any invocation of Howard Keel is funny.



He was, like, the real-life Troy McClure.