Doris Day
Born in Cincinnati in 1924, Doris Day was one of America's most prolific actresses. She had first wanted to become a dancer, but this dream was ended by an automobile accident. Day turned to singing and was soon signed by Warner Brothers
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Filmography Highlights
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Caprice
1967- Rated:
- U
Tashlin's intriguing career began brilliantly in animation; he then became a writer. He did not make his credited feature debut until 1951. His best work, including satires such as Will Success Spoil
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Do Not Disturb
1965- Rated:
- TBC
Newlyweds face all manner of challenges when the husband has to leave the good ol' USA for Europe. Romantic comedy starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor
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Send Me No Flowers
1964- Rated:
- U
The hypochondriac George (Hudson) mistakenly believes, aftera misheard conversation at his doctor's surgery, that he has only weeks to live. In a fit concerned generosity he tells afriend (Randall) a
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Thrill of It All, The
1963- Rated:
- TBC
Whimsical comedy co-written by Gelbart and Reiner. Dr Gerald Boyer (Garner) is a successful gynaecologist married to the lovely Beverley (Day), who takes her wifely duties very seriously indeed. When
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Move Over, Darling
1963- Rated:
- U
A light and frothy romantic comedy about an unfortunate love triangle
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That Touch of Mink
1962- Rated:
- U
Romantic sex comedy beautifully photographed by Metty. When playboy Phillip Shayne (Grant) inadvertently splashes mud over the hapless Cathy (Day), it is love at first sight. Cathy, though, is an old
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962- Rated:
- U
Doris Day stars in this circus musical with Jimmy Durante and Stephen Boyd as she sets out to save the circus from the clutches of baddie Dean Jagger.
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Pillow Talk
1959- Rated:
- PG
Day is the prudish spinster forced to share a party-line with philandering Hudson in this charming sex comedy. The first of many pairings of the (on-screen) asexual Day and the (off-screen) homosexua
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It Happened To Jane
1959- Rated:
- TBC
A lobster fisherwoman sues a curmudgeonly businessman for ruining her shipments. Romantic comedy starring Doris Day and Jack Lemmon
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Teacher's Pet
1958- Rated:
- TBC
Gable is James Gannon, a cynical newspaperman who believes the only way a journalist can learn his trade is at the university of life. He is not best pleased when he is sent to help out college profe
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Pajama Game, The
1957- Rated:
- U
Lively, fun musical that deals with the dual pains of love and politics. The workforce is all stirred up in a clothing factory and Day is chosen to be their negotiator against the management. Unfortu
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Man Who Knew Too Much, The
1956- Rated:
- PG
The only film that Hitchock ever remade. This is a glossier, if slightly flabbier, version of his 1934 classic. Starring James Stewart and Doris Day
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Julie
1956- Rated:
- TBC
In this gripping thriller, Doris Day stars as a woman who discovers that her concert pianist husband, Louis Jourdan, is in fact a murderer, having killed his first wife in order to marry her. Fearing
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Love Me or Leave Me
1955- Rated:
- PG
Here's a subject just perfect for the movies: Ruth Etting, a female cab driver who makes it big as a torch singer, but whose life is slowly commandeered by a gangster named Marty 'The Gimp' Snyder. D
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Young At Heart
1954- Rated:
- U
Doris Day and Frank Sinatra star in this 1954 musical. Singer Day falls for troubled musician Sinatra. Support comes from Ethel Barrymore and Gig Young, with songs by Cole Porter, George Gershwin
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Calamity Jane
1953- Rated:
- U
Doris Day's feisty tomboy Calamity Jane takes on the macho Wild West in this rousing musical with an ultra-familiar score from Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953- Rated:
- TBC
Doris Day vehicle based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories set among the Winfield family
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I'll See You in My Dreams
1952- Rated:
- TBC
Bright and tuneful biopic of famed lyricist Gus Kahn, played by Danny Thomas, Starring Doris Day as the woman who becomes his wife. With Frank Lovejoy and Patrice Wymore and a parade of Khan's great
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On Moonlight Bay
1951- Rated:
- U
This musical, set in 1917 in a small Indiana town, stars Doris Day as the tomboy daughter of banker Leon Ames and Rosemary De Camp, who decides to become more feminine when she falls for college stud
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Lullaby of Broadway
1951- Rated:
- TBC
Melinda Howard (Day) returns to New York after a trip abroad with her musical troupe. She is keen to be reunited with her mother (George), who she thinks is still a big name on Broadway. Unbeknown to
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Young Man with a Horn
1950- Rated:
- PG
Douglas is never a man to be dissuaded: that crooked eyebrow and the savage jaw warn that attempts at intercession will be rewarded with a smack in the face. Here, all that tight-coiled energy is dev
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West Point Story, The
1950- Rated:
- TBC
A Broadway director (Cagney) with a history of hitting the card table reluctantly accepts an engagement at a military academy. Luckily, he has help from Mayo's glamorous assistant-cum-girlfriend and
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My Dream is Yours
1949- Rated:
- TBC
Doris Day stars in this enjoyable musical as a girl-next-door who dreams of becoming a radio star, with Jack Carson starring as the talent scout who tries to make that dream come true. Undoubted high
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