Pillow Talk
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Movie Reviews of Pillow Talk
Movie Review: Sparkling Doris and Rock Comedy!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Pillow Talk is a sublime treat with one of cinema's greatest romantic duos -- Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Doris Day was really a spunky, sparkling comedic jewel and this is one of her deservedly best-known and loved romantic or "bedroom" comedies; it spawned several other pairings of Day, Hudson, and Tony Randall (who also stars) and is by far my favorite. The Day/Hudson chemistry is perfect, and the love and affection the two had as good friends in real life really shows and animates their scenes together.
Day plays Jan Morrow, a successful interior designer in 1950's Manhattan (certainly a rosier Manhattan than the one today, being more posh and seemingly friendly at the height of the "nightclub" era) who shares a party line with womanizer Brad Allen (the amazingly handsome Rock Hudson) and gets steamed in the priceless way only Doris can get steamed from listening to his nonstop steamy phonecalls to women. As it turns out, one of Day's clients, Jonathan Forbes (Tony Randall) is also a good friend of Brad Allen and has the hots for Doris, although she makes it clear to Jonathan she's not in love with him. When Allen gets a gander at the "other end" of his party line while escorting a date to the hot "Copa del Rio" nightclub -- Day beautiful in white, shaking her tush, he schemes to nab this cutie by pretending to be Rex Stetson, a Texas rancher with Southern hospitality and charm. So the fun begins -- split screen montages; carriage rides; and all!
Some of the many joys: the opening where luscious satin pillows in gorgeous colors (orange, pink, lime, etc.) are tossed from Day in one screen to Hudson in the next as Day sings the fun title song; Day's gorgeous Jean Louis clothes (so 50's chic!) replete with hats and gloves; Day's gorgeous apartment (love the colors!); Thelma Ritter as an inebriated housekeeper and confidant of Day's; Doris Day!; Rock Hudson!; Tony Randall; Day's wonderful songs, including "Possess Me" and the super duo with Perry Blackwell "Roly Poly" (Doris always appeared to be having such fun!). Another amusing thing is the subtext in Hudson's romantic films: a gay man impersonating a straight man impersonating a Texan impersonating a gay man!
A true classic!
Movie Review: classic Day
Summary: 5 Stars
PILLOW TALK marked the first onscreen pairing for Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Their remarkable, once-in-a-lifetime chemistry made their movies true classics, and PILLOW TALK is still the best of the bunch.
Day plays Jan Morrow, a prim designer, forced to share a telephone partyline with oily womaniser Brad Allen (Hudson). As the sparks fly so do the one-liners, when Brad decides to have a little fun with uptight Jan. He masquerades as a bashful Texan and quickly wins her affections, but has the love-bug also bitten Brad...?
PILLOW TALK marked a resurgence in Doris Day's flagging movie career; and also signalled a long chain of romantic comedy roles ("That Touch of Mink", "The Thrill of It All!", "Move Over, Darling", "The Glass Bottom Boat", "Do Not Disturb").
Rock Hudson would later team with Day again for "Lover Come Back" and "Send Me No Flowers". PILLOW TALK also features stellar work from Thelma Ritter and Tony Randall. Doris looks a treat in some gorgeous Jean Louis gowns and ensembles.
If only Universal had put more work into the DVD. PILLOW TALK is presented in non-anamorphic widescreen, and the print of the film is in bad shape with lots of grain and scratches. There are no solid extras either. This was a landmark film of the period, and I'm sure some decent work could have been done to make it's DVD debut a memorable one. Oh well...
Still, PILLOW TALK is a mandatory disc in your classic film collection, but don't expect miracles with the DVD transfer. (Single-sided, single-layer disc)
Movie Review: surprisingly entertaining campy good fun
Summary: 5 Stars
Doris Day and Rock Hudson! Who would have thought that I, the Queen of Noirs, would enjoy such a movie? But I do and how! A significant portion of the enjoyment stems from the Rock Hudson-as-a-romantic-lead inside jokiness. I mean, there's Rock Hudson and there's Tony Randall and which one would you think was less likely to have the necessary real life skills to be a romantic lead for Doris? Not Rock, in my mind. Anyway, the movie stems from a shared phone line (can you imagine? In this day and age?)between Jan (Doris) and Brad (Rock). Brad is a man about town(snigger snigger) and Doris hates that. Doris is the target de amour of Jonathan (Tony Randall), who is a buddy of Brad's. Brad decides to pursue Jan, but to do so he pretends to be a Texas oil millioinaire (Rex Stetson, a Castro District nightclub singer stage name if there ever was one...) and uses the info he is gleaning as Brad on the shared phone line to be the man of her dreams. This is a witty, well written comedy. But as I said, there's a lot of enjoyable double entrendre going on, especially in such scenes as where Jan starts to suspect that Rex might be "that way"...Do you think that Doris Day knew? They were apparently close friends. I like them both all the more for all that. Good stuff. Then the Sixties happened and witty adult movies went the way of the Dodo bird. Which is alluded to in this movie, where Jan redecorates Rex's apartment as a swingin' groovy hippie-style bachelor pad. Oh well. Recommended!Movie Review: "You're my inspiration..."
Summary: 5 Stars
Jan Morrow (Doris Day) is an interior decorator that relies on her telephone for business. Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) is a songwriter who relies on his telephone for monkey business. Turns out that they both share the same party line. Yep you saw it coming. Unknown to either of them, the Broadway producer that Brad is writing for, Jonathan Forbes (Tony Randall), is as close to love with Doris day as he was with his previous wives. Putting two and two together, rock Hudson realizes that his party line antagonist is a blonde cutie.
Knowing that he does not have a chance with her if he reveals his true identity, he takes on Texas persona (Rex Stetson.) Will this work? Will Tony Randall find out? Better still will Doris day find out the truth? Will decorating sense prevail? This could get ugly.
Look for the split screen scenes while they are talking on the phone. And Doris gets a chance to sing.
Movie Review: Pillow Talk
Summary: 5 Stars
This is probably the most well known pairing of Doris Day and Rock Hudson. A laugh out loud comedy in which Tony Randall and Thelma Ritter also showcase their vast comedic talent. Jan Morrow shares a party line with Brad Allen, which she has tried to put a stop to, but the phone company won't cooperate. She uses it for her work as an interior decorator, while he uses it to seduce a multitude of women thru his song writing. When they meet by accident, he assumes another identity to get close to Jan hoping to deceive her until he has the opportunity to get what he wants. When she becomes wise to his deception, all bets are off!