Share This
Doris Day
Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1922), known by her stage name Doris Day, is an American singer and actress.
Singing and dancing and playing both comedic and dramatic roles, she became one of America's biggest box-office stars, making 39 movies before retiring from films in 1968. She...
Learn more about Doris Day »
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
39 Film performance topics matching:
Filter this Collection
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
By the Light of the Silvery Moon is a 1953 musical film and the sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Like its predecessor, the movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington.
By the Light of the Silvery Moon relates the further adventures...
Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane is a "Wild West"-themed film released in 1953. It is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane and explores an alleged romance between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in the American Old West. The film starred...
Julie
Julie is a 1956 thriller written and directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring Doris Day in one of her few performances of the genre. Day starred as a stewardess terrorized by her insanely jealous husband (Louis Jourdan). The film was nominated for...
On Moonlight Bay
On Moonlight Bay is a 1951 musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth which tells the story of the Winfield family at the turn of the century. The movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington. There was a 1953 sequel, By the Light of...
Pillow Talk
Pillow Talk is a 1959 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Gordon. It features Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter and Nick Adams. The film was written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene.
The...
Character:
The Glass Bottom Boat
The Glass Bottom Boat, also known as The Spy in Lace Panties, is a 1966 romantic comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin that is also considered a musical. It stars Doris Day and Rod Taylor.
Axel Nordstrom operates a glass-bottom boat tourist...
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a remake in widescreen VistaVision and Technicolor of Hitchcock's 1934 film of the same name.
In the book-length...
Young Man with a Horn
Young Man with a Horn is a 1950 drama film based on a biographical novel of the same name about the life of Bix Beiderbecke. The film is considered to be the first contemporary big-budget jazz film, a genre that became common not soon after the...
With Six You Get Eggroll
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968) is a family comedy, starring Doris Day and Brian Keith. Other cast members include George Carlin, Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Barbara Hershey, Alice Ghostley and Pat Carroll.
Day plays Abby McClure, a widow who...
The Thrill of It All
The Thrill of It All (1963) is a romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison starring Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, and ZaSu Pitts. The screenplay was written by Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner. Reiner also plays a cameo as a character...
It Happened to Jane
It Happened to Jane is a 1959 romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs directed by Richard Quine and written by Norman Katkov and Max Wilk.
Day plays Jane Osgood, a young widow who clashes with a railroad magnate after...
Teacher's Pet
Teacher's Pet is a 1958 romantic comedy film starring Clark Gable and Doris Day, directed by George Seaton and written by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin.
The main characters include:
Stone asks Gannon to speak before a night-school college journalism...
That Touch of Mink
That Touch of Mink (1962) is a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. The film co-stars Gig Young, John Astin, Audrey Meadows, and Dick Sargent. In addition, baseball stars Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Yogi Berra make cameo...
Love Me or Leave Me
Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical film which tells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star. It stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as Martin "Moe the Gimp" Snyder, and Cameron Mitchell. It was written...
The Tunnel of Love
The Tunnel of Love is a 1958 romantic comedy based on the Broadway hit by Peter De Vries and Joseph Fields. The film follows a married suburban couple who for reasons unknown, are unable to conceive a child and soon endure endless red tape on a path...
Move Over, Darling
Move Over, Darling (a.k.a.: Something's Got to Give) is a 1963 remake of the 1940 screwball comedy My Favorite Wife that starred Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott. The remake stars Doris Day, James Garner, and Polly Bergen.
Ellen Wagstaff...
Young at Heart
Young at Heart is a 1954 film, directed by Gordon Douglas. It was a remake of the 1938 film Four Daughters, and it starred Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Alan Hale, Jr and Dorothy Malone and was the first of five films that...
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) is a comedy film starring Doris Day and David Niven, made by Euterpe Inc., and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The movie was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Joe Pasternak, with Martin Melcher (Day...
It's a Great Feeling
It's a Great Feeling (1949) is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, and Dennis Morgan in a spoof of what goes on behind-the-scenes in Hollywood movie-making. The screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson was based upon a...
Lover Come Back
Lover Come Back is a 1961 romantic comedy released by Universal Pictures. The film stars Doris Day and Rock Hudson in their second film together. The supporting cast includes Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Ann B. Davis, and Donna Douglas.
This movie...
Caprice
Caprice is a 1967 comedy-thriller starring Doris Day as an industrial designer who gets herself into a whole heap of trouble when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company in Paris. Richard Harris plays a counterspy in the cosmetics...
I'll See You in My Dreams
I'll See You in My Dreams was a 1951 film starring Doris Day and Danny Thomas, directed by Michael Curtiz.
Other actors in the movie included Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore, Mary Wickes, and James Gleason. The film is a biography of lyricist Gus Kahn...
Storm Warning
Storm Warning is a 1951 American thriller, directed by Stuart Heisler, and stars Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, and Ronald Reagan.
Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in the southern town of Rockpoint to see her newly wed sister Lucy Rice ...
The Pajama Game
The article is about the 1957 film. For other uses see The Pajama Game (disambiguation).
The Pajama Game is a 1957 musical film based on the stage musical of the same name. The principal cast of the Broadway musical repeated their roles for the...
Romance on the High Seas
Romance on the High Seas (also known in the United Kingdom as It's Magic) is a 1948 musical romantic comedy film starring Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, and Doris Day in her film debut.
It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Original...
My Dream Is Yours
My Dream Is Yours is a 1949 musical romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Carson and Lee Bowman.
The film is perhaps best remembered today for an extended dream sequence combining animation and live action which featured a cameo appearance...
The Winning Team
The Winning Team is 1952 film directed by Lewis Seiler. It is fictionalized biography of the life of major league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander starring Ronald Reagan as Alexander, Doris Day as his wife, Aimee and Frank Lovejoy as Rogers...
Lullaby of Broadway
Lullaby of Broadway was a Warner Bros. musical starring Doris Day and Gene Nelson, released in 1951. Songs from the film were released in an album of the same name.
On board the ship carrying her from England, where she lives, to New York City,...
Send Me No Flowers
Send Me No Flowers: a 1964 American comedy film, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall.
The screenplay by Julius J. Epstein is based on the play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, which had a brief run on...
Midnight Lace
Midnight Lace is a 1960 American mystery-thriller film starring Doris Day and Rex Harrison, directed by David Miller. The screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts is based on the play Matilda Shouted Fire by Janet Green.
The film was remade as a...
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) is a musical film, produced by MGM and starring Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd. It featured Busby Berkeley's choreography. It was nominated for the Academy Award for the adaptation of its Rodgers...
The West Point Story
The West Point Story (also known as Fine and Dandy) is a 1950 musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Doris Day.
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby (Cagney) is an unemployed Broadway musical director who agrees to...
The Pajama Game
The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are...
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Hy Averback. Although it is set in New York City during the major blackout of November 9, 1965, in which 25 million people scattered throughout seven northeastern...
Tea for Two
Tea for Two is a 1950 American musical film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Harry Clork and William Jacobs was inspired by the 1925 stage musical No, No Nanette, although the plot was changed considerably from the original book by Otto...
April in Paris
April in Paris is a 1952 musical film starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger. It was directed by David Butler.
Winthrop Putnam is the Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State, and was formerly Assistant Assistant Secretary to...
Starlift
Starlift was an American musical film released by Warner Brothers in 1951, starring Janice Rule, Dick Wesson, Ron Hagerthy and Ruth Roman. The film was directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by Karl Lamb and John D. Klorer. Made during the beginning...
The Ballad of Josie
The Ballad of Josie is a 1967 American comedy western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Doris Day, Peter Graves and George Kennedy. It attempted to humorously tackle 1960s themes of feminism in a traditional western setting.
A young...
