Posted on 04/04/2014 6:28:49 AM PDT by patriot08
KEEP REPEATING:
IT'S ONLY A MOVIE
ONLY A MOVIE
ONLY A MOVIE
What if she had married Ronald Reagan??! Wow..what a first lady she would have made!
Who knew back then that Rock Hudskn was thinking about the set crew while kissing her on the set.
Good ad especially since I am of the Massey Ferguson persuasion.
Glad Doris is still around and for the good things she has done.
That would have been something really good.
That was her last movie from 1968. She still did her television show after that though until 1973. Since then retired from the mass media.
Here ya go..with some great pics.. It's Magic!
Aside from the great screwball comedies..one of my faves is "Teacher's Pet"..with Clark Gable..
Ah yes. Doris Day. I owe her a debt of gratitude for my abject dislike of “celebri-tees”. So thank you Ms. Day. Back in the early 50’s, she was shooting a movie in Carmel California where I lived at the time. I approached her for an autograph and she blew me off like a bothersome gnat. Must have made a hell of an impression on a 3rd grader cause ever since that day, the “stars” have been nothing but folks unworthy of my respect. So, again, thanks ms. day. You really did me a favor that I wouldn’t recognize until later in life. Of course now I know that some of these folks are good people and do good things, but that crushing blow kept me from ever being “star struck”.
that was a cute movie... i think Barbara Hershey was the older daughter in that movie... and George Carlin was also in the movie..
my favorite movie of hers was Midnight Lace with Rex Harrison... it was creepy... scary... not your typical sunshiny Doris Day movie... i also liked Young at Heart with Frank Sinatra...
Once upon a time, Doris Day was the American ideal - now it’s some tattooed freak with a nose ring and green hair.
We’ve come a long way - in the wrong direction!
I’m sorry you had a disappointing experience with her.
Maybe she was in a hurry, overworked, having a very bad day?
She is known for her love of, ability/willingness to work with children (unlike most stars who fear they will steal their thunder).
LOL! Entirely possible but at least she set me up to not be star struck ever again. Maybe it was already in me. I may respect some of “stars” work/musical talent etc, but you sure won’t see me out there screaming and clamoring for autographs and maybe a chance to “touch” one of them. :>}
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WIKI EXCERPT---Terrence P. "Terry" Melcher (February 8, 1942 – November 19, 2004) was an American musician and record producer, who was instrumental in shaping the sound of American West Coast rock music. His greatest contribution to the culture of the time was producing The Byrds' innovative cover hits "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!", and his work with The Beach Boys.
He was the only child of actress/singer Doris Day.
Melcher was born Terrence P. Jorden in New York City to trombonist Al Jorden and his wife, singer-actress Doris Day. Known as "Terry",[1] the boy was named by his mother after the hero of her favorite childhood comic strip, Terry and the Pirates.[2]
Before the birth, Day was planning to leave the abusive, violent Jorden. Outraged when he found out about her pregnancy, Jorden had demanded that Day get an abortion. Shortly after giving birth, Day filed for divorce, left the boy with her mother in Ohio, and went back to touring with big band leader Les Brown. After the divorce, Jorden visited his son infrequently and had little presence in his life.
After divorcing her second husband, saxophonist George Weidler, Day married Martin Melcher, who would become her manager and produce many of her films.
Melcher adopted Terry, giving the child his surname. (NOTE: while showing concern for Terry in front of Doris---Terry later said Melcher abused him when Doris was not around.)
After Martin Melcher's death in 1968, Day discovered that he had mismanaged or embezzled $20 million of her money.
On November 19, 2004, Terry Melcher died at his home of melanoma, after a long illness. He was 62 and was survived by his wife, Terese, his son, Ryan Melcher, and his mother, Doris Day.[11]
"This film was chosen by Ross Hunter, the producer of her hit comedy, “Pillow Talk.” Playing the role in the film had a great effect on her physically. As the expert she is, she tried to develop a mental image of the woman she was playing and the part became very real to her. She said, “I became that woman to the best of my ability. To create the fear which the character I played had to project, I re-created the fear in myself which I had once felt in my own life. I relived it. It was painful and upsetting.” In one particular point in the emotional climax of the film, Doris has a very dramatic scene on a descending staircase. She says, “I wasn’t acting hysterical, I was hysterical, so at the end of the scene I collapsed in a real faint.” Production of the film had to be suspended for a few days. http://www.dorisday.net/midnight_lace.html
Doris, I have read, was thinking about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her first husband and father of her only child- who beat her in the stomach and threw her across the room, almost causing her to have a miscarriage. .
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