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Doris Day has never looked better. She was dressed to the nines by Jean Louis, wore smart hair styles and gave an Oscar nominated performance as Best Actress. Rock Hudson was surprisingly effective as Brad Allen, her rival partyline user.

The plot is cat and mouse and set the tone for the other Day/Hudson films featuring mistaken identity and deceit. As usual, the supporting plays are sterling. Tony Randall deserved a best supporting actor nod, but didn't get one. He was superb. I loved the great Thelma Ritter (nominated Best Supporting Actress) as Day's tipsy maid, Alma, and Nick Adams was appropriately over-sexed as Tony the Harvard man who tries to seduce Miss Day. Lee Patrick, as Tony's mother, was the same as she was in all of her films, zanny, and Julia Meade was fun as one of Hudson's "regulars".

The picture is bright, witty and beautifully produced. The New York locale lends a special flavor to the proceedings and Frank DeVol's musical score is right on the money.

Brings back memories of the drive in theatre
I was a kid when my mom & dad put my sister and myself in the family car and headed out to the local drive-in theatre. This was my introduction to the years of Doris Day & Rock Hudson movies.I've seen this movie again about 10 years ago when i bought it on VHS and it was just as wonderful. Full of great music, a fun semi-dated comedy, a beautiful Doris Day and a breathtaking Rock Hudson. The story was simple, the costumes for Doris Day were the most beautiful i ever saw.Now i bought the DVD and have been terribly disappointed by the sound. It's very brassy i guess is the best word i can think of, the picture quality is pretty good. Funny, somehow it doesn't matter, watching these two fine actors makes it all worth it. Back in the early 80's i had the honor of working with late great Rock Hudson at Disney World. He was larger than life to me and the nicest gentleman I ever worked with. We miss him dearly. Doris Day will always have that pure charm that will always remind me of my mother.So bring back those memories that you have and get yourself a copy of "Pillow Talk". What were you doing in 1959?

Wonderful comedy of 3 Hollywood Stars with amazing chemistry
I grew up knowing about Doris Day because my mother was/is a big fan of her comedies. When I first saw "Pillow Talk" I was a mere child (the film was made the same year I was born). Over the years I have watched it frequently, and now have it also on DVD. The film continues to entertain and delight me, even as my impressions have changed with time.

Doris Day, Rock Hudson and Tony Randall had a wonderfully delightful chemistry amongst them! From the opening where Doris is humming "Pillow Talk" after the intro is completed, to the far-fetched but humourous end when Brad Allen (Rock) is trying to tell his friend Jonathan that he is going to be a father, the film is simply splendidly performed throughout! Credit must also be given to the script writers Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin, director Michael Gordon & Producer Ross Hunter.

Even though I was born the year "Pillow Talk" was made, I didn't even know party lines existed until I visited a great-aunt in Northern Minnesota. I remember picking up the phone and hearing people talk. WHAT A DISCOVERY! It put the film in a new context for me when I saw it later (I am not sure if I had seen it before). I suspect that the younger generation might not understand even the notion of party lines in our age of cellular phones and internet. In this regard, the film takes us back to a less techonologically advanced time, but a time where life seemed somehow more relaxed.

I delight in seeing New York City, Central Park, and the American automobiles in the 1959 frame of context. One question that pops into my mind: did people in NYC really have such big apartments with a single woman living alone, and still affording a maid to come in each day??? Was the maid really paid enough to make a living from it? Did NYC really have that sort of "everyone knows everyone" feel such as when Kelly the police officer congratulates Brad Allen as he carries Jan Morrow from her apartment to his? I doubt it, but the fantasy is lovely!

Rock Hudson did a really fun impression of a Texan rancher up in New York. Tony Randall was extremely funny as the self-deprecating multi-millionaire in love with Jan, and Doris simply glowed from beginning to end. The last few times I have watched it, which has been recently, I have been struck by the sexual frankness it explored. Brad the playboy, always luring in the beautiful women, Jan the wonderfully moral interior decorator, who shakes her tush in a very sexy manner at a nightclub when Brad first spots her, and the budding romance that develops between the two when he becomes "Rex Stetson", a cowboy from Texas. "Rex" playing the moral companion who would do nothing to offend the proper Miss Morrow, while inside he is sizing her up and biting at the bit to ... well bite at her bits? When the gig is almost up, "Rex" innocently suggests that Jan join him for a weekend in Connecticut. While there was no actual sex occuring, it is made clear that it was about to happen when Jan figures out the ruse Brad Allen has played on her. Hollywood, perhaps afraid of the extent of this sexual frankness, has Miss Morrow crying at the diner where she and Jonathan stop for coffee, saying "I thought we were going to get married." Good girl image preserved!

Later, when Brad Allen conspires with Jan's boss to have her redecorate his apartment, the scene of the music beginning to play and the double bed automatically folding out with sheets in place left no doubt what sort of life Brad led prior to falling in love with Jan. He was a playboy through and through and measured success by the quantity of women he successfully "entertained" at home. Growing up believing that promiscuous sexuality was a by-product of the late 60's counter culture movement and "summer of love", it struck me how direct and unambigious this scene was. However, in a very moral and virginal way, Jan's virtues are protected until she hears that Brad wants to marry her and in fact, loves her very deeply.

I am particularly fond of stories where romance changes a person for the good. Being an adult and a male, however, I wonder if such a womanizing playboy could and would remain ever faithful to the woman he loves for all eternity and never feel the need to stray again. It is fun, however, to believe that love was the true redemptor and that Brad and Jan lived happily ever after. Isn't this the great promise of romance AND fairy tales.
In both genres, Pillow Talk succeeds beyond measure and I love it more each time I see it.

P.S. The music is great too. Love "Roly Poly", "Possess Me" and of course, the theme song!