Thanks so much Renie. I will check out eBay
On Amazon, I did buy a double Doris Day CD in good condition for a very reasonable price .The CD is With a Smile and a Song as well as Wonderful Day. Both these albums were missing from my collection. They are joyful to listen to.
I am trying to find the Annie Get Your Gun CD sung by Doris Day and Robert Goulet.
I am hoping more people will post on the DD. Forum. It is such a pleasure to hear from Doris Day aficionados.
Happy Holidays.
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Re: Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Review by Roger Ebert - July 3- 1968
"Here is another movie about how Doris Day preserves her virtue. Frankly, I have lost interest in Doris Day's virtue. Doris Day without doubt has the most threatened virtue in history. Compared to her, Helen of Troy was a registered nurse.
Oh, I'll confess there was a once a when I was concerned. Once there was a time when I was downright worried about Doris Day's virtue. Not long ago, Rock Hudson and Rod Taylor and Richard Harris were all hot on the trail of Doris Day's virtue. But their efforts came to naught , and Doris Day's virtue as they say, emerged intact.
Now, in "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?", Robert Morse was after Doris Day's virtue, and I think we can all breathe easy. In every Doris Day movie , the same thing happens. Doris Day gets in bed with someone she shouldn't be in bed with. However, it always happens very innocently and by accident, and Doris Day's virtue always emerges intact, although for a while there it's touch and go.
In this movie , Doris Day drinks half a glass of sleeping medicine. Then Robert Morse wanders into the house and accidentally drinks the other half. Then they fall asleep together, but they're already asleep -get it? Then Doris Day's husband, Patrick O'Neal, comes home and easiest hell . Any husband of Doris Day should know it was only an accident.
Anyway, it is supposed to be funny that Doris Day got into this embarassing but really innocent situation by accident --see ? I don't find it funny at all. By this time it's taking on the elements of tragedy.
If I were Doris Day , and I had accidentally gotten in an embarrassing situation with Rock Hudson, and Rod Taylor and Richard Harris and Robert Morse and everyone else in the phone book in 27 straight movies , and my virtue were still in tact, frankly I'd start to worry."
Notes:
Roger Ebert never mentioned in his review that Doris Day's character Margaret is a Broadway Star in a play called The Constant Virgin. He does not comment that Margaret is married to Peter, (Patrick O'Neal-).
Other cast members including Terry Thomas, Lola Albright, Jim Backus are not mentioned.
The November 9-1965 lights out all over the East Coast is not commented on.
Roger Ebert is an acclaimed movie critic as is Bosley Crowther. Their biases ( especially towards female actresses) tend to undermine objectively evaluating a film's merits.
Review by Roger Ebert - July 3- 1968
"Here is another movie about how Doris Day preserves her virtue. Frankly, I have lost interest in Doris Day's virtue. Doris Day without doubt has the most threatened virtue in history. Compared to her, Helen of Troy was a registered nurse.
Oh, I'll confess there was a once a when I was concerned. Once there was a time when I was downright worried about Doris Day's virtue. Not long ago, Rock Hudson and Rod Taylor and Richard Harris were all hot on the trail of Doris Day's virtue. But their efforts came to naught , and Doris Day's virtue as they say, emerged intact.
Now, in "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?", Robert Morse was after Doris Day's virtue, and I think we can all breathe easy. In every Doris Day movie , the same thing happens. Doris Day gets in bed with someone she shouldn't be in bed with. However, it always happens very innocently and by accident, and Doris Day's virtue always emerges intact, although for a while there it's touch and go.
In this movie , Doris Day drinks half a glass of sleeping medicine. Then Robert Morse wanders into the house and accidentally drinks the other half. Then they fall asleep together, but they're already asleep -get it? Then Doris Day's husband, Patrick O'Neal, comes home and easiest hell . Any husband of Doris Day should know it was only an accident.
Anyway, it is supposed to be funny that Doris Day got into this embarassing but really innocent situation by accident --see ? I don't find it funny at all. By this time it's taking on the elements of tragedy.
If I were Doris Day , and I had accidentally gotten in an embarrassing situation with Rock Hudson, and Rod Taylor and Richard Harris and Robert Morse and everyone else in the phone book in 27 straight movies , and my virtue were still in tact, frankly I'd start to worry."
Notes:
Roger Ebert never mentioned in his review that Doris Day's character Margaret is a Broadway Star in a play called The Constant Virgin. He does not comment that Margaret is married to Peter, (Patrick O'Neal-).
Other cast members including Terry Thomas, Lola Albright, Jim Backus are not mentioned.
The November 9-1965 lights out all over the East Coast is not commented on.
Roger Ebert is an acclaimed movie critic as is Bosley Crowther. Their biases ( especially towards female actresses) tend to undermine objectively evaluating a film's merits.
Johnny
Re: Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
In Tom Santopietro's excellent book Considering Doris Day, he writes:
"There is only one word to describe Day's next film, Where Were You When the Lights Go Out? - terrible. Only The Tunnel of Love ranks lower among Day's 39 movies. An ostensible farce, it doesn't register a single genuine laugh. By film's end , not only is the question, "Why was this film ever made?", lingering in the air , but what resonates most strongly with the viewer is the sense that the ever - optimistic and energetic Doris Day be self looks tired throughout, as if even she barely had the energy to put up with this silliness. ( This statement does not ring true. Doris is a true disciplined professional that is fully committed to every film regardless of how she feels personally about it. )
"Like so many of Day's later films , the movie gets off to a terrible start , with yet another third- rate title tune: here sung by the Lettermen, with a Vegas lounge act orchestration , it is so subpar that it makes the viewer pause . How could such a terrific singer and actress be so consistently stuck with such awful songs? The answer really does appear to be Day's statement that although Marty Melcher appreciated great music ," he just couldn't bring himself to pay Hank Mancini his fee". Net result? Inexpensive, i.e. inferior songs that plodded along at a deadly pace . The issue of the title song list significant in Day's films because she is a first- class musical talent and the songs were supposed to get the comedies off to a buoyant start. Instead, it usually took the first ten minutes of the film just to overcome the leaden musical beginning ".
The songs in Doris' later films are not memorable. Doris' statement on Marty not wanting to pay Mancini illustrates again the degree of control he had over the money spent on her films .
"There is only one word to describe Day's next film, Where Were You When the Lights Go Out? - terrible. Only The Tunnel of Love ranks lower among Day's 39 movies. An ostensible farce, it doesn't register a single genuine laugh. By film's end , not only is the question, "Why was this film ever made?", lingering in the air , but what resonates most strongly with the viewer is the sense that the ever - optimistic and energetic Doris Day be self looks tired throughout, as if even she barely had the energy to put up with this silliness. ( This statement does not ring true. Doris is a true disciplined professional that is fully committed to every film regardless of how she feels personally about it. )
"Like so many of Day's later films , the movie gets off to a terrible start , with yet another third- rate title tune: here sung by the Lettermen, with a Vegas lounge act orchestration , it is so subpar that it makes the viewer pause . How could such a terrific singer and actress be so consistently stuck with such awful songs? The answer really does appear to be Day's statement that although Marty Melcher appreciated great music ," he just couldn't bring himself to pay Hank Mancini his fee". Net result? Inexpensive, i.e. inferior songs that plodded along at a deadly pace . The issue of the title song list significant in Day's films because she is a first- class musical talent and the songs were supposed to get the comedies off to a buoyant start. Instead, it usually took the first ten minutes of the film just to overcome the leaden musical beginning ".
The songs in Doris' later films are not memorable. Doris' statement on Marty not wanting to pay Mancini illustrates again the degree of control he had over the money spent on her films .
Johnny
Re: Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Then we have the films that SHOULD HAVE BEEN. Nothing more likely than the role of Nellie Forbush in the movie version of SOUTH PACIFIC. The writers of the show wanted Doris for the part. But Marty Melcher (again!) would not allow her to do it unless she was offered 2 million dollars for the part (astronomical figure for that time). The producers said NO and gave it to Mitzi Gaynor. Nothing negative here...Mitzi did a respectable job. DORIS WOULD HAVE KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK. Melcher was just a two bit creep.
Re: Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Looking at Roger Ebert's 1968 review on Where Were You When the Lights Went Out, I came across an interesting response to his review by getreal:
"The big problem with this review and others is the reviewers confusion about thd character in the MOVIE and Doris Day herself. These movies are not about the actress Doris Day or the person Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff who was married 4 times in real life and had a child- son Terry - and obviously lost her virginity at least sometime during her first marriage between 1941 and 1943. Ebert and you may not enjoy the movie but don't blame it on Miss Day's status as a virgin. The character as written may have been out of date in the late 1960's but Ms Day herself was aware of sex and sexuality as they clearly informed her performances as a woman who wanted and knew what she wanted but wasn't willing to be pressured into accepting a relationship that fell short of true commitment. It is called acting and as late in the decade as it was, as late in her career as it was and as licked into contracts made by her husband as she was Ms Day was a fine actress and portrayed the silliness of these serial farces with great skill. It is unfortunate that Ebert felt it was necessary to take such s cheap shot. He clearly does not understand the role of a critic as well as Ms Day understood her fold as an actress "
Many critics get caught up in their own hubris, feeling entitled to smear the career of a performer and not the characters in the film itself. Doris Day was a perfectionist who gave her best in every film regardless of the quality of the script. She was a team player. She made every film better.
"The big problem with this review and others is the reviewers confusion about thd character in the MOVIE and Doris Day herself. These movies are not about the actress Doris Day or the person Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff who was married 4 times in real life and had a child- son Terry - and obviously lost her virginity at least sometime during her first marriage between 1941 and 1943. Ebert and you may not enjoy the movie but don't blame it on Miss Day's status as a virgin. The character as written may have been out of date in the late 1960's but Ms Day herself was aware of sex and sexuality as they clearly informed her performances as a woman who wanted and knew what she wanted but wasn't willing to be pressured into accepting a relationship that fell short of true commitment. It is called acting and as late in the decade as it was, as late in her career as it was and as licked into contracts made by her husband as she was Ms Day was a fine actress and portrayed the silliness of these serial farces with great skill. It is unfortunate that Ebert felt it was necessary to take such s cheap shot. He clearly does not understand the role of a critic as well as Ms Day understood her fold as an actress "
Many critics get caught up in their own hubris, feeling entitled to smear the career of a performer and not the characters in the film itself. Doris Day was a perfectionist who gave her best in every film regardless of the quality of the script. She was a team player. She made every film better.
Johnny
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