DORIS DAY AND HER LEADING MEN

To sum up this month of romance I wanted to post on my favorite actress of all. Doris Day, the flower of Hollywood.

Shes acted with the best actors, laughed with the best laughers and sung with the best singers. From Howard Keel to Gordon McCrae she had a voice out of this world, of which they were her really good back up singers. With Jimmy Stewart and James Cagney she made us cry in suspense. Then with Rock Hudson and James Garner we never laughed so hard in a movie.

What other woman of Hollywood could take on as many "big stars" as her. Here are what some of them have said of her.

JAMES GARNER:
“I’d rather have Doris than Liz Taylor... Everything Doris does turns to box-office gold.… I think Doris is a very sexy lady who doesn’t know how sexy she is. That’s an integral part of her charm. One other thing about acting with Doris—she was the Fred Astaire of comedy Whether it was Rock Hudson or Rod Taylor or me or whoever—we all looked good because we were dancing with Clara Bixby.”

JACK LEMMON:
“I think she is potentially one of the greatest actresses I’ll ever work with, because in every scene she is so open, simple, and honest that I found myself in the position of having to play up to her. Which, in the parlance of actors, means she’s so good that I automatically reacted to her.”

ROCK HUDSON on "Pillow Talk" (1959):
“They had to add a week on to the shooting schedule because we could not stop laughing I used to think about terrible things, to try not to laugh, but I think that’s the wonderful part about when you see two people on the screen—if you like them, if they like each other, and you sense that they like each other.”

*Here she is at one of her best moments.

Who else could make a song so suspensfull.