Doris Day - Silver Screen Icons

ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948) Bon voyage! Georgia Garrett's singing career may not be going anywhere, but she is. She's on a cruise, sailing under the name Mrs. Elvira Kent while the real Elvira secretly stays home to spy on her presumably philandering hubby. Meanwhile, the husband hires a spy to snoop on his supposedly voyaging wife. Doris Day makes her first maiden film voyage, debuting as Georgia in a colorful bauble afloat on romantic seas. The studio surrounds the sunny, overnight screen sensation with top talent: Michael Curtiz directs, the Epstein brothers provide the script, Busby Berkeley guides musical numbers, Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn create the tunes, and co-stars include Oscar Levant and Jack Carson. "It's Magic," Day sings. Yes, it is.

CALAMITY JANE (1953) Day and Howard Keel fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this entertainment mother lode. At first curvaceous Calamity is too durned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay mind to such girly what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hotheaded tomboy. But things change in a rootin, tootin big way when each becomes loves target.

LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (1955) Roaring 20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything the looks, the wiles, the smoky jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin The Gimp Snyder (James Cagney) who, even as he propelled her career, [mistreated or undermined] her. Laced with Days vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award® winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is based on the tough-minded tale of Ettings life with the man who boosted her career with strong-armed tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip that she escaped only at great peril.

PLEASE DONT EAT THE DAISIES (1959) Kate Mackay (Day) has four boys who someday may lend their names to hurricanes. Also, a monstrosity of a country fixer-upper that needs its lower fixed too. And a poison-pen, drama-critic hubby (David Niven) who sees plays under the worst possible circumstances by being in the audience. With Janis Paige, Spring Byington and Richard Haydn on hand for snappy comic support, Please Dont Eat the Daisies is breezy family fun. 

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