1959: A BIG YEAR Doris Day: I Hardly Knew You

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In 1959, Doris Day entered her most successful phase as a film actress with a series of romantic comedies, starting with Pillow Talk co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong friend. Day received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Day and Hudson made two more films together, Lover Come Back (1961) and Send Me No Flowers(1964). Day also teamed up with James Garner starting with 1963's The Thrill of It All, followed later that year by Move Over, Darling.

Move Over, Darling
had originally been entitled Something's Got to Give, a 1962 comeback vehicle for Marilyn Monroe and featuring Dean Martin. The film was suspended following the firing of Monroe and her subsequent death. A year later, it was renamed and recast with Day as the lead character.-Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia, 4 September 2011.

I have not read your autobiography,(1)
Doris...but those years from 1959 to
1962 were big ones for me too. I did
not know anything about you back in
those years, at least nothing that I can
remember, just a name in a great sea of
names in the memory bank of experience.

My life-narrative has other things of much
importance to me back then: I joined a new
religion: the Baha’i Faith in 1959 and began
my travelling and pioneering for the Canadian
Baha’i community in 1962, started university
in ’63 and by ’64 had begun my first episode
of bi-polar disorder. I remember all that, Doris,
as if it was yesterday. You had some tough times
with your four marriages & all those money
problems. Still, Doris, I’m glad I’m me. I wish
you well as you head into life’s late evening.
I hardly knew you, Doris, until tonight on TV.

(1) Doris Day: Her Own Story, 1975.

Ron Price
4 September 2011
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I freaking love these.
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She turned down The Graduate. It would have been awesome to see her as Mrs. Robinson.
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Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
Doris Day was the BIGGEST star of that specific era, and Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back are still awesome to this day, with many thanks to Rock and Tony.
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Belated thanks for your responses folks.-Ron in Tasmania