Doris DayFilmography

The Big Bands, Vol. 1: The Soundies

Actors: Stan Kenton, Les Brown, Doris Day, Tony Pastor, Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra

Synopsis: From Storyville Films comes this collection of 1940s movie clips featuring musical performances by some of the biggest musicians of the swing era. Big Bands, Vol. 1: The Soundies includes such songs as "It's Been a Long, Long Time" by Stan Kenton, "Oh Marie" by Tony Pastor, "The Dipsy Doodle" by Read More

Doris Day: It's Magic

Synopsis: Doris Day: It's Magic employs film clips, newsreel footage, trailers, home movies, and interviews with a variety of people in order to tell the life story of Doris Day, an actress who symbolized the ideal American woman for much of the '50s. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Judy Garland's Hollywood

Synopsis: Though many fans will always fondly recall Judy Garland's wonderful portrayal of young Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Garland herself was apparently most proud of the role she played in A Star Is Born. In this film, which opened in 1954, Garland portrayed an actress who sees her career blossom as Read More

Doris Day's Best Friends [TV Series]

Actors: Doris Day

Doris Day Today

Actors: Doris Day, Tim Conway, John Denver, Rich Little

Synopsis: This 90 minute program captures a 1975 TV specials starring the beloved actress and singer Doris Day, which features a number of duets with singer-songwriter John Denver including Sunshine Medley, Exactly Like You, and Follow Me. The special also includes comedy sketches with funnyman Tim Conway Read More

The Doris Day Show: Season 05

Actors: Doris Day, John Dehner, Jackie Joseph

Synopsis: The most remarkable aspect of The Doris Day Show's fifth season is that the new year did not usher in a new format, as had the previous four seasons. Adhering to the "bible" established in season four, Doris Martin (Doris Day) is still a glamorous bachelor girl, working as a reporter for San Read More

The Doris Day Special

Actors: Doris Day

Synopsis: Singer and actress Doris Day performs before both the cameras and an adoring live audience in an Emmy-nominated broadcast that originally aired on CBS as The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special in 1971. With special appearances by singer Perry Como and actor Rock Hudson, as well as a collection of Read More

The Doris Day Show: Season 04

Actors: Doris Day, John Dehner, Jackie Joseph

Synopsis: By the time The Doris Day Show had entered its fourth season, the series had already undergone two format changes. In the earliest episodes, widow Doris Martin (Doris Day) and her two sons Toby and Billy lived on the rural California farm owned by Doris' Uncle Buck. In season two, Doris began Read More

The Doris Day Show: Season 03

Actors: Doris Day, Philip Brown, Tod Starke, McLean Stevenson, Rose Marie

Synopsis: The third season of The Doris Day Show ushers in the series' second format change. During season one, widow Doris Martin (Doris Day) and her sons Toby (Tod Starke) and Billy (Philip Brown) spent all their time in the upstate California farm owned by Doris' uncle Buck Webb. Season two found Doris Read More

The Doris Day Show: Season 02

Actors: Doris Day, Denver Pyle, Philip Brown, Tod Starke, Naomi Stevens

Synopsis: Although The Doris Day Show has posted reasonably good ratings during its first season on the air, neither the star nor the producers felt that the format -- newly widowed city girl Doris Martin (Doris Day) and her two sons leading the simple life on the farm owned by Doris' bucolic uncle Buck Read More

The Ballad of Josie

Actors: Peter Graves, Doris Day, George Kennedy, Andy Devine, William Talman

Synopsis: Doris Day peers through layers of camera gauze to star in The Ballad of Josie, a second-rate variation of Cat Ballou. For openers, Day is arrested for the billiard-cue bludgeoning of her late husband. Upon her acquittal, she takes up sheep ranching in Wyoming. To prove herself as good as any man, Day Read More

With Six You Get Eggroll

Actors: Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin

Synopsis: A young widow with three children and a sheepdog marries a widowed man with a young daughter and a French poodle in this amusing comedy. Abby (Doris Day) is the owner of a lumberyard who falls for Jake (Brian Keith) when her sister Maxine (Pat Carroll) introduce the two at a party. The couple is Read More

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Actors: Doris Day, Robert Morse, Terry-Thomas, Patrick O'Neal, Lola Albright

Synopsis: This light romantic comedy is set during the November 9th power outage of 1965 that darkened New York and much of the East Coast. Margaret (Doris Day) is a theater actress who storms out on her architect husband, Peter (Patrick O'Neal), when a pretty female reporter spends too much time Read More

The Doris Day Show: Season 01

Actors: Doris Day, Denver Pyle, Fran Ryan, James Hampton, Philip Brown

Synopsis: Newly widowed Doris Martin (Doris Day) and her two sons Toby (Tod Starke) and Billy (Philip Brown) move into the farm owned by Doris' uncle Buck Webb (Denver Pyle) as The Doris Day Show launches its first season. Featured in the early episodes are James Hampton as Buck's versatile hired hand Read More

Caprice

Actors: Doris Day, Richard Harris, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edward Mulhare

Synopsis: Doris Day plays a swinging, mod-attired agent of espionage (yes, that Doris Day) in this caper comedy directed by Frank Tashlin. Patricia Fowler (Day) is an industrial spy who is hired to work undercover at a cosmetics company. While posing as a low-level employee, she is to get the goods on a new Read More

The Glass Bottom Boat

Actors: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Paul Lynde

Synopsis: The Glass Bottom Boat is hardly a high point in the careers of star Doris Day and director Frank Tashlin, though it is a better-than-usual example of that pure-'60s genre, the "spy spoof." Day plays Jennifer Nelson, a PR worker at NASA in Florida. She also doubles as a "mermaid" for her father Read More

Do Not Disturb

Actors: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Doris Day and Rod Taylor star in this romantic comedy as Janet and Mike Harper, a married couple who relocate to England when Mike is transferred by the company for whom he works. While Janet and Mike seem to be happy together, the trip across the pond seems to bring on a case of the Seven Year Read More

Send Me No Flowers

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde, Hal March

Synopsis: Light and laugh-filled, Send Me No Flowers is typical Rock Hudson and Doris Day fare. George (Hudson) is a hypochondriac married to Judy (Day) in this marital comedy. When George goes to visit the doctor, he overhears two doctors talking about a diagnosis of a terminally ill patient. George Read More

The Thrill of It All!

Actors: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews, ZaSu Pitts, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: This amusing romantic comedy concerns Dr. Gerald Boyer (James Garner), a successful gynecologist with a wife and two children. Wife Beverly (Doris Day) focuses on maintaining the household and watching the kids. One of Gerald's patients, Mrs. Fraleigh (Arlene Francis), overhears Beverly talking up Read More

Move Over, Darling

Actors: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Chuck Connors, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: A man makes the highly unexpected discovery that he has two wives in this romantic comedy. Widower Nick Arden (James Garner) has just set off on his honeymoon with his new wife Bianca (Polly Bergen) when his mother Grace (Thelma Ritter) receives a very unexpected guest -- Nick's late wife Ellen (Doris Day Read More

That Touch of Mink

Actors: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows, John Astin, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: When people refer to Doris Day as "the world's oldest professional virgin," they generally have the 1962 comedy That Touch of Mink in mind. It isn't that Cathy Timberlake (Day) is above a bit of hanky-panky; it's just that she wants such tangibles as a marriage license and wedding ring first. Read More

Billy Rose's Jumbo

Actors: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: Inasmuch as the spectacular Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Jumbo was written in 1935, this 1962 film version can't help but seem a little quaint. Still, the film features the original production's star Jimmy Durante, energetically recreating his stage role as circus owner Pop Read More

Lover Come Back

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Although not as well known as Pillow Talk (1959), this romantic-comedy pairing of stars Rock Hudson and Doris Day earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. Hudson stars as Jerry Webster, a Madison Avenue advertising executive who has achieved success not through hard work or intelligence but Read More

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn

Synopsis: In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four overactive kids in a wildly challenging family. David Niven co-stars with Doris Day as Lawrence and Kate Mackay, distinctive parents struggling with home, life, and family. Read More

Midnight Lace

Actors: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim of a mysterious stalker, who she hears but can never see. She is threatened by the eerie, high-pitched voice as she walks in the thick London fog. She then begins receiving Read More

It Happened to Jane

Actors: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Teddy Rooney

Synopsis: Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages her own lobster business, and the railroad has just trashed a shipment, killing them off before they could ever be properly boiled to death for someone's dinner. Jane Read More

Pillow Talk

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams

Synopsis: The fabulously successful Pillow Talk was essentially Shop Around the Corner for the 1950s. Playboy composer Rock Hudson and interior-decorator Doris Day are obliged to share a telephone party line. Naturally, their calls overlap at the least opportune times, and just as naturally, this leads to Read More

Teacher's Pet

Actors: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie van Doren, Nick Adams

Synopsis: Hard-boiled, self-educated newspaper editor Clark Gable turns down an opportunity to lecture before a night-school journalism class, publicly ridiculing the notion that the art of news writing can be taught. Gable's publisher, sensing a good story, orders the recalcitrant editor to appear at the Read More

The Tunnel of Love

Actors: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young, Gia Scala, Elisabeth Fraser

Synopsis: Though very tame by contemporary standards, Tunnel of Love was considered the last word in racy comedy back in 1958. Adapted from the Broadway hit by Peter DeVries and Joseph Fields, the film stars Doris Day and Richard Widmark as suburbanites Isolde and Augie Poole. Isolde and Augie desperately Read More

The Pajama Game

Actors: Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy, Jr., Reta Shaw

Synopsis: The Broadway musical Pajama Game was based on Seven and a Half Cents. a comic novel about labor relations written by Richard Bissell. Doris Day stars as an employee at a pajama factory who becomes the spokesperson for her fellow workers when management refuses to give them a 7 1/2 cent raise. Read More

Julie

Actors: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: Julie is most enjoyable if one doesn't take it too seriously. Doris Day plays Julie Benton, whose off-the-coop musician husband Lyle Benton (Louis Jourdan) confesses that he in fact killed Julie's first husband. She immediately recognizes that he is so possessive of her that he would sooner rub Read More

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Daniel Gélin, Ralph Truman

Synopsis: The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own original 1934 version. This two-hour remake (45 minutes longer than the first film) features more stars, a lusher budget, and the plaintive music of Bernard Herrmann (who Read More

Love Me or Leave Me

Actors: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully

Synopsis: One of the gutsiest movie musicals of the 1950s, Love Me or Leave Me is the true story of 1930s torch-singer Ruth Etting, here played by Doris Day. While working in a dime-a-dance joint, Ruth is discovered by Chicago racketeer Martin "The Gimp" Snyder (fascinatingly played with nary a redeeming Read More

Young at Heart

Actors: Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: Young at Heart is a soft-pedaled, musicalized remake of 1938's Four Daughters. Robert Keith takes over the Claude Rains role as paterfamilias to a family of musical prodigies, all girls: Doris Day, Dorothy Malone, Elizabeth Fraser (the fourth daughter was written out of proceedings, no great Read More

Lucky Me

Actors: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy, Jr., Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Lucky Me is a mixed-bag musical from Warner Bros., adhering to a tried-and-true formula that was wearing just a bit thin in 1954. Candy (Doris Day), Hap (Phil Silvers), Duke (Eddie Foy Jr.) and Flo (Nancy Walker) are four small-time performers who find themselves stranded in Miami. Forced to take Read More

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the "Penrod" stories by Booth Tarkington. Penrod himself (played by Billy Gray) takes a back seat to the main plot, concerning the hot-and-cold romance between Doris Day and Gordon MacRae Read More

Calamity Jane

Actors: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson

Synopsis: Doris Day looks no more like the real Calamity Jane than you or I do, but this 1953 film is intended as a lighthearted musical, not a historical tract. As portrayed by the freckled Ms. Day, Jane is a rootin', tootin' shootin' hoyden in the western town of Deadwood. When she isn't tearing up the Read More

April in Paris

Actors: Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin, Eve Miller, George Givot

Synopsis: Thanks to a bureaucratic blunder, the US State Department invites brassy showgirl Doris Day to attend a chi-chi arts festival in Paris. En route to the City of Light, Day falls in love with diplomat corps flunkey Ray Bolger (who's responsible for the error), even though he's married to witchy Eve Miller Read More

The Winning Team

Actors: Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Miller, James Millican

Synopsis: Ronald Reagan delivers one of his best screen performances as baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander in The Winning Team. The title refers to the mutually supportive relationship between Alexander and his loving wife Aimee (top-billed Doris Day); with this in mind, is it any surprise that the Read More

I'll See You in My Dreams

Actors: Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore, James Gleason

Synopsis: The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from the point of view of Kahn' wife Grace, who was still alive when the film was made (Kahn died some ten years earlier). Danny Thomas stars as the prolific tunesmith, whose Read More

On Moonlight Bay

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, "Smiling" Jack Smith, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros. musical On Moonlight Bay. The role of the incorrigible Penrod is played by future Father Knows Best regular Billy Gray, but his is a strictly secondary part herein. The Read More

Starlift

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Ruth Roman

Synopsis: Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II. The wisp of a plot concerns Mike Nolan (Dick Wesson) and Rick Williams (Ron Hagherty), San Francisco-based airmen who serve as crew members on a shuttle to Korea. To impress a Read More

The Lullaby of Broadway

Actors: Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George

Synopsis: Warner Bros. made good use of its backlog of Harry Warren/Al Dubin tunes in its 1951 Doris Day musical Lullaby of Broadway. Day plays an American musical comedy star who comes back from a successful London engagement to visit her mother Gladys George. A once-great Broadway star herself, George is Read More

Storm Warning

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders

Synopsis: In Storm Warning, Ginger Rogers stars as a model visiting relatives in an unnamed small town. She happens to witness the beating death of a man at the hands of the KKK. Rogers soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by this vigilante group, and that her loutish brother-in-law Steve Cochran Read More

Young Man With a Horn

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez

Synopsis: The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk Douglas plays the Beiderbecke character, here named Rick Martin. An ace trumpter player, Martin is one of the few white musicians to flourish in the black-dominated jazz scene Read More

Tea for Two

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Patrice Wymore, Eve Arden, Billy De Wolfe

Synopsis: Tea for Two is a Technicolor adaptation of the 1924 Broadway musical No No Nanette, previously filmed under its own title in 1929. Doris Day stars as Nanette, a Roaring '20s Jazz Baby with showbiz aspirations. Nanette offers to put up $25,000 if producer Billy DeWolfe will star her in a Broadway Read More

The West Point Story

Actors: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson

Synopsis: James Cagney delivers a vibrant performance as a down-on-his-luck Broadway musical director in The West Point Story, featuring songs by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. Cagney plays out-of-work director Elwin "Bix" Bixby, who reluctantly accepts a job from producer Harry Eberhart (Roland Winters) to Read More

My Dream Is Yours

Actors: Doris Day, Jack Carson, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden

Synopsis: My Dream Is Yours is a Technicolor remake of the jaunty 1934 Warner Bros. musical Twenty Million Sweethearts. But there's a significant difference here: whereas in the earlier film singing-waiter Dick Powell was turned into a crooning idol, in the remake it is Doris Day who is catapulted to Read More

It's a Great Feeling

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Bill Goodwin, Irving Bacon

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's future partner I.A.L. Diamond concocted the storyline for this Dennis Morgan/Jack Carson/Doris Day tunefest. Morgan and Carson, Warner Bros.' answer to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, appear as themselves. Attempting to line up a director for their next picture, the boys find themselves Read More

Romance on the High Seas

Actors: Doris Day, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Oscar Levant

Synopsis: This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her friend Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) had scheduled the cruise but at the last minute cancels when she suspects that her husband is cheating on her and she decides to stay at Read More