Pillow Talk

Actors:  Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter
Rating:  9 out of 10, my journey with childhood crush Doris Day continued with arguably her best film.  This iconic film holds up extremely well over five decades later.  The chemistry between Day and Hudson is palpable which is certainly a tribute to Hudson’s acting ability.   There was even a scene, so much more memorable now with the hind sight of the intervening years, where Hudson feigns homosexuality.  This movie actually takes other chances as well which makes it all the more enjoyable.  A professional woman in the 1950’s and the beginning salvoes of the loosening of views on sex that came with the 1960s among other themes.   It provides a very interesting glimpse back in time where there were party lines and completely different societal mores.  I really liked the split screens which are used extensively and Hudson tries to first confound and then win Day.  This technique as well as the entire movie was spoofed in Down With Love but here it’s a lot of fun.  That is the bottom line with this movie, its still very funny and a complete treasure.
MVP:  Rock Hudson as Brad Allen defining himself as the complete leading man of the 1960’s rom com (little did we know)