Silver Screen Icons: Doris Day (DVD)
ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948) In the film that made 23-year-old Doris Day a film star to cap off her already highly successful recording career, this Michael Curtiz-directed musical comedy follows a singer on a Caribbean cruise who gets mixed up in a series of romantic problems. Georgia Garrett (Day) pretends to be her friend Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) in order to take Elvira's place on an ocean cruise. Also on board is a detective whom Elvira's husband hired to see if Elvira is cheating on him. Believing that Georgia is Elvira, the detective can't help falling in love with her. Songwriters Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's Oscar-nominated "It's Magic" became a huge hit for Day. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Score. Sequences were shot in Cartagena, Columbia, and Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, Brazil.
CALAMITY JANE (1953) Day and Howard Keel fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this entertainment mother lode. At first curvaceous Calamity is too durned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay mind to such girly what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hotheaded tomboy. But things change in a rootin’, tootin’ big way when each becomes love’s target. INCLUDES: Premiere and Awards Newsreels . Languages: English & Français Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled).
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (1955) Roaring ’20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything – the looks, the wiles, the smoky jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin “The Gimp” Snyder (James Cagney) who, even as he propelled her career, [mistreated or undermined] her. Laced with Day’s vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award® winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is based on the tough-minded tale of Etting’s life with the man who boosted her career with strong-armed tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip that she escaped only at great peril. INCLUDES: 3 Vintage Shorts – A Modern Cinderella, Roseland and A Salute to the Theatres. Languages: English & Français Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled).
PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISIES (1959) Kate Mackay (Day) has four boys who someday may lend their names to hurricanes. Also, a monstrosity of a country fixer-upper that needs its lower fixed too. And a poison-pen, drama-critic hubby (David Niven) who sees plays under the worst possible circumstances – by being in the audience. With Janis Paige, Spring Byington and Richard Haydn on hand for snappy comic support, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies is breezy family fun. Languages: English & Français Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled
CALAMITY JANE (1953) Day and Howard Keel fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this entertainment mother lode. At first curvaceous Calamity is too durned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay mind to such girly what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hotheaded tomboy. But things change in a rootin’, tootin’ big way when each becomes love’s target. INCLUDES: Premiere and Awards Newsreels . Languages: English & Français Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled).
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (1955) Roaring ’20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything – the looks, the wiles, the smoky jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin “The Gimp” Snyder (James Cagney) who, even as he propelled her career, [mistreated or undermined] her. Laced with Day’s vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award® winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is based on the tough-minded tale of Etting’s life with the man who boosted her career with strong-armed tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip that she escaped only at great peril. INCLUDES: 3 Vintage Shorts – A Modern Cinderella, Roseland and A Salute to the Theatres. Languages: English & Français Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled).
PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISIES (1959) Kate Mackay (Day) has four boys who someday may lend their names to hurricanes. Also, a monstrosity of a country fixer-upper that needs its lower fixed too. And a poison-pen, drama-critic hubby (David Niven) who sees plays under the worst possible circumstances – by being in the audience. With Janis Paige, Spring Byington and Richard Haydn on hand for snappy comic support, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies is breezy family fun. Languages: English & Français Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled