Pretend you are on a desert island and you can choose five films only. Which five films would capture her legacy for you, or personally mean something to you - or you just like them the best!

Yes, it's already in the lead."Love Me or Leave Me" for obvious reasons. It may well be Dodo's finest performance, and the musical numbers are great. She and Cagney make a dynamite pair.
Interesting that you say, "Doris has never looked sexier" - that could be a poll in itself -"Which film did Doris look the sexiest in?"Teacher's Pet." Doris has never looked sexier, and despite their age differences, she and Gable had wonderful chemistry. The dialogue is wonderful, Gig Young is a joy, and the film works for me in every way.
James, very cool that we are so close with our top picks. Good observation about PT and the fact that Doris did not have any interaction with Tony in LCB. I love Teacher's Pet too but gave Romance a top spot because it was her film debut and she made the movie something special -- much more than what was written on the page.Jas1 wrote:Michael- I shared 4 of your 5 - missing Romance and substituting it with Teacher's Pet.
Pillow Talk is always my favourite - and it is more evenly scripted for me than Lover Come Back - think the weighing in Rock's favour is to do with the fact Doris' character never gets to inter-act with the 3rd lead - as in Pillow Talk - so Rock as the majority of screen time. Still love Love Come Back though.
mikeydv wrote:Just a thought..
Without ROMANCE, there would have been NO DORIS DAY MOVIE STAR. She was on the way back home to her mother and son when she tested for that role. She got the role, and my friends, the rest is history.
http://www.krwg.org/post/doris-day-holl ... lects-lifeDay's singing career eventually led her to Hollywood, where she got a part in the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas, without knowing she was auditioning for the role.
"I was just out in Hollywood singing, and my manager was with me, and we were going to have lunch," she says. "And he drove out to the studio, and I knew nothing about that. We were standing around, and I said, 'What are we doing?' and he said, 'I'm arranging something.'"
Day's manager told her that a young man was auditioning for a role in a movie and she needed to help him out. That man, unbeknownst to Day, was actually the film's director.
"So I read my lines, and after that, he came up and took my hands and said, 'Darling, you were very good' and I thought, 'How funny' and said, 'Thank you so much, it was nice to meet you.' And with that, we left," she says.
Day was due to leave Los Angeles the following morning, but received a phone call in her hotel room. It was actor Jack Carson.
"And he said, 'Miss Day, this is Jack Carson. I know it's early in the day to be calling you, and I heard that you were leaving for New York. I want to tell you something — you are going to be in the best part, the most important part, in the movie I'm doing next. And I want you to be in it,'" she says.
Day accepted the offer and soon began working on the film. On her second day of work, she was invited into a studio to watch herself on the screen for the first time.
"I went in and I just stood there, and Jack came up to me and he put his arms around me," she says. "And he said, 'Everything is just perfect. And you're the one. And I really enjoyed it today.' And he gave me a big hug."
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