Lover Come Back

Actors:  Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Donna Douglas, Edie Adams
Rating:  7 out of 10, my journey with childhood crush Doris Day continued with a film I never saw before.  It was another send up of the battle between the sexes that was fomenting in the early 1960s and features Day and Hudson at the peak of their careers.  Hudson plays another Neanderthal that thwarts the go getter Day as rival advertising executives.  Hudson really was an alpha male type despite his later revelations.  Day doesn’t often get credit for it but she was a ground breaker in the movies as a smart, confident professional female in a male dominated work environment.  The movie takes on the role of sex in a very straightforward manner which is surprising for a 1961 film.  There is also another fleeting reference to Hudson’s sexuality when he walks in wearing only a female’s mink coat that is only notable for what we learned later on.  Randall is incredibly funny as the spoiled rich son and Hudson's supposed boss.  This was another fun trip down memory lane that had my wife in stitches.  Over the past week she has become a devoted Doris Day fan, who knew?
MVP:  Day as Carol Templeton, the smart, sexy, and frustrated foil to Hudson’s cad