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| marantzo |
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gromit wrote: Wasn't Doris Day huge in the 50's?
Definitely in the 50's with a few very popular movies in the early 60's. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:38 am |
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Little Miss Marker is a pretty good Shirley Temple film.
Has anyone seen Love Me or Leave Me (1955)?
Sounds interesting with Doris Day as Ruth Etting and Cagney as her mob boyfriend. |
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| whiskeypriest |
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marantzo wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: billyweeds wrote: Doris Day was at least as big a star as Loren.
And she starred in better movies.
Only if you consider the movies that Loren made in the states. Something like Penelope Cruz who's American made films were mostly just bad, but the ones overseas were mostly top notch.
To quote Oscar Levant, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
When I was very young and at our cottage at the beach, where all our dishes and furniture etc. were old things from our house in the city, I was having breakfast and my cup had a picture of a young curly headed girl on it. I asked my mother who it was and she said, "Shirley Temple". I asked her who that was and she told me that she was a very big star in movies some years ago. I asked my mother if she liked her and she replied, "I couldn't stand here."  I saw some of her movies on TV years later and I couldn't stand her either. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:30 am |
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Favorite sex-change film: Been Her |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:12 am |
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Whiskey, I seem to have a big problem with here, hear and her. 
Gromit, I saw Love Me or Leave Me when it came out and liked it. I saw it again on TV a year or two ago and found it rather disturbing. I'd recommend it. It is interesting. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:26 am |
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gromit wrote: Little Miss Marker is a pretty good Shirley Temple film.
Has anyone seen Love Me or Leave Me (1955)?
Sounds interesting with Doris Day as Ruth Etting and Cagney as her mob boyfriend.
Nancy was a big fan of the movie. She thought it was easily Day's best movie. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:51 am |
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| I think it was the best of Day's movies as far as her role went. I don't know if it were meant to be that way, but I found her character not a very nice person. Has DD ever played that kind of role before? I might be in the minority about Etting's lack of niceness. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:02 pm |
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| Like Gregory Peck and Cary Grant, Doris Day must have found it hard to get a role as anything but the good guy. She did very well as the cute virginal blonde that everyone loved, but it must have irritated her sometimes to have so few options. At least she got to star in a Hitchcock movie. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:35 pm |
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| Wasn't about hard. It was about her husband keeping her from it. Thus no Day in The Graduate. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:41 pm |
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| I simply can't imagine Doris Day as Mrs. Robinson. I know Charles Grodin was approached to play Benjamin, and turned it down--him I can imagine. Fortunately the right people got the parts. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:35 pm |
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| Doris Day would have been perfect. Like casting Troy Donahue as Mia Farrow's husband in Rosemary's Baby. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:17 pm |
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| Joe--Right on. Though Troy Donahue didn't have the acting chops for the role he was the right type. If Robert Redford had been available and willing, that would have been perfect. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:40 pm |
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| I think Joe was kidding Billy. Maybe not? |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:58 pm |
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Not kidding.
Agree about the lack of acting chops, Billy. And about Redford. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:02 pm |
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| The older generation in The Graduate are living the Doris Day-Rock Hudson life. Day as Mrs. Robinson would have made a perfect satirical point. Not saying Anne Bancroft is bad, by any means. But she doesn't convey the same screen connotations Day did. |
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