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Pillow Talk Sponsored by El Paso Electric 1959 | Not Rated | Comedy, Romance | d. Michael Gordon Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall |
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| Successful, single Doris Day and pretty playboy Rock Hudson share a party line back in the day when most people didn’t have their own private connection. When his phone hogging gets to be too much, their spite for one another’s lifestyles launches an all-out war. The big twist happens when he finally sees her in person and realizes he wants to make her his next conquest. So he reinvents himself as the perfect (yet completely fake) Southern gentleman to woo her. Will he pull it off? Will she make an honest man out of him? Carried by two of Hollywood’s most beloved stars and a great cast of supporting characters including Tony “The Odd Couple” Randall, Pillow Talk is a classic American comedy. - LG | ||
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Pillow Talk represented the first of a trilogy of comedies starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall, and produced by Ross Hunter. All three are lush, colorful, and vibrant, but Pillow Talk in particular is representative of the late 50s/early 60s urban sensibility. This comes through from the cast through the plot's use of the party line (in the cellular age, a shared phone line is archaic) and New York apartment neighbors, when Thelma Ritter's drunken maid could still be played for laughs (which she gets). It's a prime example of the “sex comedy” of the ppst-40s, pre-Woodstock era, one which relied more on farce, innuendo, clever entendre, and sheer chemistry (which Day and Hudson had) than the actual deed. With a catchy theme song crooned by Doris, Randall in the “other man” suitor role, and a score by prolific sitcom composer Frank DeVol (The Brady Bunch theme), Pillow Talk is a fun, frivolous but frothy visit to a different class of comedy. - AL | ||