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Movie Reviews of Doris Day Today
Movie Review: You will want this! TRUST ME!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the two specials Doris did for CBS, and it is impossible to resist her charm.
Her rendition of "The Way We Were" is on par with the jazzy version of "Hooray For Hollywood" that is sampled all the time. Listen to BOTH songs in full, to get their impact.
(of course "Hooray" is not on this item, but find it!)
Doris was always a style maven, and she looks fantastic. You will LOVE this! Doris was in fine form, and you can tell that production spent time and money to assure a great show.
The 70's and 80's were hard for many stars, Doris included.
This is a great snapshot of the time- a sensational show with a superstar talent. At the time it remined one of the highest rated television shows of the year.
How foolish of CBS and the studios to ignore her charm, talent and ability to attract an audience. I am quite sure that she never thought this would be a good bye to her millions of fans. I hope you enjoy the show as much as I did.
P.S. For those of you who are HUGE Doris fan's (like me!) -- Can you imagine how nice the CBS series "Murder She Wrote" might have been with with our Super-Style Doris?
Nothing against dear Angela, but Doris would have rocked the airwaves in that part!
Do get this DVD at the great AMAZON price, and share it-- we simply do NOT have talent and style like this anymore. Enjoy!
Movie Review: Definitely for Day and John Denver Fans-LOTS of bonus material
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1975 "Special" is a time capsule. In the 70s network TV was doing lots of Variety Shows (have you seen a "variety" show on TV in the last 20 years?) and you could see all kinds of music in one hour.
This show - the main reason for this DVD - was produced by George Schlatter, who was responsible for "Laugh-In" during the same time period. You can tell from the sets and the corny jokes and the comic sketches with Tim Conwa But Day looks super and the print is great! Rich Little does a nice bit with Day where she sings songs from all her movies and Little recreates the leading men. And there a huge amount of screen time given to John Denver.. enough that this could have been a Day/Denver special.
The bonus features are nice addition:
A 1940s "Soundies" of Day with Les Brown's band (taken from the wonderful "Music Classics" series that MPI has put out and which I watch often.
An ILLUSTRATED Discography of Day Lps and CDS
A full episode from her situation comedy series "The Doris Day Show" titled "Doris Goes To Hollywood" where the fictional Doris goes to see the "Real" Doris. (MPI has the full series on a separate DVD set.
A 10-minute segment with Doris appearing on Denver's 1974 TV variety show.
So, Day fans will want this and so will Denver Fans! (And, if there are George Gobel fans out there (are there?) he's on the special too!)
Movie Review: Doris Day--The Best Day of All
Summary: 5 Stars
This special which aired in 1975 was one of the best performances Ms. Day ever did on Television. In this one hour of pure delight, Doris Day shows us the many talents she possesses...everything from dancing, singing, and of course, comedy. Like most of her shows, the fashions she wears is also something to be reckoned with. There has never been another actress who could wear a gown like Doris Day.
She easily proves to the viewer her voice is still top notch by not only singing bits and pieces from her movie hits, but she does one more by singing Barbra Streisand's signature song. There is no one other than Barbra who could sing "The Way We Were" with such ease and make the song their own, ...no one except Doris Day!
Way too often, people forget that Doris Day, the movie actress, also happens to have one of the best singing voices to ever grace a record.
If you enjoy her voice, love her movies, or just plain like Doris Day, you must purchase this DVD. It will be one of those that you will play over and over again.
If you happen to be a fan of Doris Day, then this is a must have for your collection. No fan should be without it!
Movie Review: Doris Does it Again
Summary: 5 Stars
Doris Day is such a wonderful entertainer. She is such a breath of fresh air with her happy, sunny personality shining through everything she does. She obviously enjoys singing and dancing and she and John Denver work well together. I enjoyed their light banter and songs together. What I loved most about this Special is the segment where she joins Rich Little, he doing the impersonations of some of the popular male stars she starred with in the movies and Doris singing excerpts of those movies. Rich was pretty good and was very amusing taking off Cary Grant, James Cagney,, James Stewart to name just a few. Doris looked and sang beautifully - she is such an attractive woman and to my calculations must have been 51 when she did this but you would never know it. She also has a fabulous figure, actually quite stunning for any age let alone 51!!
I also thought Tim Conway was great! I sincerely recommend this to any Doris Day fan and anyone at all who likes good entertainment.
Robyn
Movie Review: What a beautiful Day!
Summary: 5 Stars
Even tho this was recorded a "few" years ago, I just acquired it and LOVED it. Doris is at her best and absolutely gorgeous. She's in fine voice and very funny. I'm so glad I bought it. I'll watch it again and again.
Rich Little does wonderful impressions of some of Doris' leading men and John Denver is adorable. Tim Conway is, as always, a riot.
If you are, even remotely, a "DD" fan, this is a MUST. You won't be disappointed.