Rating: 7 out of 10, Another in my journey through Doris Day land. This one teams her up with James Garner again. Now that I’ve seen a number of her rom coms from the 50’s and 60’s I think that she had the best chemistry with Garner. He plays a baby doctor who has to deal with his wife (Day) suddenly becoming famous as a TV personality. There are some really funny bits in this such as when Garner drives his beloved convertible into a backyard pool. There is just great timing between these two actors. This movie was written by Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner and directed by Norman Jewison so it has a great pedigree. Reiner even appears in several cameos as an overacting soap actor (kind of redundant there). Some of the coolest parts of the movie were the exterior shots of NYC in the 1960s and the overall snapshot of family life in that bygone era.
MVP: Garner as Dr Gerald Boyer struggling to accept his wife’s success
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