That Touch of Mink
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Movie Reviews of That Touch of Mink
Movie Review: That Touch of Mink
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie!! Any Cary Grant/Doris Day fan would love to have to watch over and over.Movie Review: DORIS! DORIS! DORIS!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is yet another Doris Day movie, made during that fruitful period between "Pillow Talk" and "Send Me No Flowers", that broke with the established formula of 'Married to Garner/Chased By Hudson', whereas they found another well-known leading man to star with Do-Do other than her two perennials. Cary Grant, Mr. Charisma himself, stars as the romantic lead in a tale that would have MAYBE suited Hudson, since Grant chases her for most of the movie, (actually, they chase each other throughout the film, and Doris' ROOMMATE, played by Audrey Meadows, is the one who hates him before she realizes who he is, not Doris herself, who falls in love with him on first glance,) and they end up getting married in the end.
It all starts when Grant, who plays a very well-heeled captain of industry, splashes unemployed working girl Doris one morning with his Rolls Royce Silver Cloud. He immediately feels a small pang of guilt and sends his man Friday, played by Gig Young, rather than Tony Randall, to apologize and make restitution for her soiled clothes. The Gig Young character is immediately met with protective hostility by the roommate, but he eventually does hook up with Do-Do, playing a character named Cathy Timberlake, as she dines at a Horn & Hardart's Automat where her roomie works. She meets Grant, playing a Mr. Shayne, head of a large company that buys up other companies, and they proceed to charm the pants off of each other (almost!)
There is one scene, as the movies develops, during their second trip to the Caribbean, where Doris resolves not to get nervous like she did on their first trip down there, (where she developed a comical nervous rash,) and proceeds to drink herself blotto. Grant drops everything to be there with her, and finds her lying on their fourposter soused to the gills, with a whiskey bottle hanging off of her right big toe. Doris greets him with a shrill, drunken "Hi!" and waves at him with the whiskey bottle-ensconced big toe. It has to be one of the funniest scenes in rom-com history.
It's little touches like that that made Doris' movies between 1959 and 1963 so great! Some of the best writing, acting and directing in film comedy was employed during these movies, making them classics of family entertainment and we may never see their like again....and you can rest assured that every present-day rom-com that DOES work is probably utilizing a rethink of any number of gags used in Doris' better movies from this period in her career.
She was the most profitable film actress during this era for SOME reason, and trust me, it's easy to see why!
Movie Review: Sweet romantic comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
Doris Day plays Cathy Timberlake, an unemployed girl next door from outta town. Cary Grant plays the suave and sophisticated Phillip Shane Managing Director of a successful company. On a rainy day in Manhattan Phillip Shane's car accidentally splashes Cathy Timberlake who is standing on the edge of a kerb. Later from his office he spots Cathy on the street and he sends his assitant Gig Young to apologise and to give her money to compensate for her ruined dress. Cathy is not impressed and says to Gig Young that she wants to throw the money back in Philipp's face so she goes up to his office but instead of telling him off she falls for his good looks and charm. She is then whisked off to a meeting of board directors, flies on his private jet, attends a UN speech and ends the day attending a baseball match. Cathy is thoroughly smitten by Phillip and he is really impressed by her so much that he asks her to go away with him for the weekend to Bahamas. Being Doris Day, Cathy is of course all virtuous and is in a dilemma as to whether she should go away on her dirty weekend with Phillip. She decides no but is finally persuaded to do so because Phillip goads her into do so. She has a wonderful time until the night arrives and is faced by being seduced by Phillip at which point she is so stressed that she develops a rash all over. So poor Phillip is left playing cards on the terrace with another man who's wife "is not well". So Cathy returns to New York with her virtue in tact. She tries to lure Phillip away again and the second time is so drunk that she falls off her balcony. Phillip decides to not woo her any longer and finds her a job in a credit card company only for her to mess up the company's entire filing system. In the end, to win back Phillip, Cathy and her roommate, Audrey Meadows think up of a plan for her to go away with the sleazeball who works at the local benefits office and for Phillip to chase after them which inevitably he does.
This film is a bit dated ie Cathy being virtuous and shy but it's a great comedy. If you love vintage clothing from the sixties there's even a catwalk run thrown in. The colours are wonderful and the lines delivered by the actors are sharp. Doris Day is her usual bubbly self and you couldn't get smoother guy than Cary Grant. Fun film to watch on a rainy day in.
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Movie Review: Doris Day, "Money doesn't buy good manners".
Summary: 4 Stars
Now available on DVD. No old scratchy,faded print to watch. The only problem with this DVD version is, it is shown in squeezy wide-screen. Takes the enjoyment out of watching. Doris Day gets caught in the rain in New York City. She gets splashed from the road water by a very luxurious car with a well-to-do man inside, Cary Grant. Doris ends up at the employment agency where John Astin, who is a clerk, once again tries to ask her for a date. But his thoughts are more aggressive. But Doris is a lady and turns him down. She goes to cafe where through the tuna salad window compartment she gossips with Audrey Meadows who is a server on the other side. Cary Grant sees Doris and apologizes for him for splashing her with the car. So Gig Young does his duty, and Doris says "Money doesn't buy good manners". Reluctantly, Doris goes with Gig to meet this tychoon. When they meet, it's love at first sight. She calls Audrey Meadows, her friend, and naturally her friend is concerned all she can do is offer some good sound advice. She doesn't want her friend to be hurt. Very cute, mature film for the middle-aged adults. Many laughs along the way. Dick Sargent (Bewitched tv series) has a small role. Just wait until you see what havoc Doris Day causes at the UNIVAC building. The first computer database.Movie Review: Nice Comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
Pleasant and harmless comedy which has some very funny moments indeed, about an unemployed small town girl in New York (Doris Day), who accidentally meets millionaire man-of-the-world (Cary Grant) and falls in love with him.This film belongs to that kind of late `50s and early `60s glamorous chic fluff that was being made at Universal Studios at that time, with the aforementioned Day, Rock Hudson, James Garner, Tony Randall, et al.
Gig Young and Audrey Meadows give fine support as friends of the starring couple. John Astin (future Gomez Addams of the well-remembered 1960s TV series "Addams Family") is very funny as an extremely unpleasant character who's after Doris Day, and Richard "Dick" Sargent (later to be "Bewitched's" second Darrin Stephens) has a nice bit as a honeymooner in Bermuda.