Gems of the Week

Steve Scott.

I enjoyed how they showed the cast during the end credits of Young Ones.

Yeji Yun.

Three Little Words.

Erie Basin.

The Hot Rock.

It Happened At the World's Fair (the little boy above is a baby Jeff Bridges).

The Pajama Game.

Billy Rose's Jumbo

It feels like I haven't done a post featuring a bright and crazy-costumed musical in ages. 

So.... here's Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) - starring Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd and Martha Raye.

The plot is a simple one - Doris Day's dad (Jimmy Durante) owns a circus - a circus that is in danger of going out of business. Will it survive? Will she fall in love in the process of trying to save it? 

(Probably.)

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Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk (1959) was one of the first old romantic comedies I ever watched... back when I was watching them just for my own personal enjoyment (and not also for blog posting reasons).

Now that I've watched TONS of ridiculous old movies, I'm not quite as fond of Pillow Talk's absurdity as I originally was, but it's still pretty classic.

And - like Sex and the Single Girl - it's one of the major plot sources for the movie Down with Love.

Starring Doris Day, Rock Hudson and Tony Randall.

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"Womanizing songwriter Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) spends hours on the phone wooing his many women. Problem is, he shares a party line with prim interior decorator Jan Morrow (Doris Day), who's miffed because she can't get any calls. Then Brad gets a gander at Jan -- and it's lust at first sight. Realizing he's a goner if Jan learns his true identity, Brad concocts a Texas persona to seduce her. When the truth comes out, there's hell to pay."

Doris is so horrified by this. As though nothing illicit could happen on a couch without a fold-out bed.

This must have been such a fun set to design and decorate.

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