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.
