Pillow Talk (1959) 7.5
A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised. Director:Michael Gordon |
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Pillow Talk (1959) 7.5
A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised. Director:Michael Gordon |
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Doris Day | ... | ||
Tony Randall | ... | ||
Thelma Ritter | ... |
Alma
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Nick Adams | ... |
Tony Walters
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Julia Meade | ... |
Marie
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Allen Jenkins | ... |
Harry
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Marcel Dalio | ... |
Pierot
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Lee Patrick | ... |
Mrs. Walters
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Mary McCarty | ... |
Nurse Resnick
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Alex Gerry | ... |
Dr. Maxwell
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Hayden Rorke | ... |
Mr. Conrad
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Valerie Allen | ... |
Eileen
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Jacqueline Beer | ... |
Yvette
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Arlen Stuart | ... |
Tilda
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In New York, the interior decorator Jan Morrow and the wolf composer Brad Allen share a party line, but Brad keeps it busy most of the time flirting with his girlfriends. They do not know each other but Jan hates Brads since she needs the telephone for her business and can not use it. Coincidently Jan's wealthy client Jonathan Forbes that woos her is the best friend of Brad and he comments with him that he feels an unrequited love for Jan, who is a gorgeous woman. When Brad meets Jan by chance in a restaurant, he poses as a naive tourist from Texas named Rex Stetson and seduces her. But Jonathan hires a private eye to find who Rex Stetson is. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This smart and sassy sex comedy was made in 1959 but it could just as easily have been made in 1939 and the roles played here by Doris Day and Rock Hudson could have been played by Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Michael Gordon's direction is serviceable at best but it has a likable Oscar-winning script by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene that makes the most of it's premise of the mismatched couple who find romance in the most unlikely of farcial situations.
Day is starchy and frigid but Hudson is immensely likable and displays a real comic flair. There is a gay joke at the expense of the Hudson character and knowing what we know now we might well ask how much of an 'in-joke' this really was and just who was in on the joke. The film was a huge success and re-vitalized Day's career in non-musical roles. Tony Randall's character of the slightly effete millionaire who is in love with Day is not unlike David Hyde Pierce's Niles in "Frasier" and you can see some of the best "Frasier" scripts in some of the situations here. Influential or what?