Happy HNT! Doris Day

Hear I am, double chin and all, with two of my favorite actors

- Dorris Day and Kirk Douglas.
I think this picture must have been taken during the filming
of their movie Young Man with a Horn. It hangs in the lobby of the

Palm Springs Tennis Club were we spent our anniversary last month.
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Young Man with a Horn (1949)
Kirk Douglas plays hard-drinking, passionate music man Rick Martin in this drama inspired by the life of jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. Thanks to a devoted mentor, the young, idealistic Rick proves to be a musician of the highest caliber. But his life hits a sour note when his troubled marriage, penchant for the bottle and stormy personality threaten to derail a promising career. Lauren Bacall and Doris Day co-star as Rick's love interests theis was the first truly dramatic role I'd ever seen Dorris in. She & Kirk are both fabulous.

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The following are some of my favorite Doris Day Moives...

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Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Nightclub singer Ruth Etting (Doris Day) tries to keep her secret romance with a musician under wraps in this dramatic musical based on the life story of the 1930s singer. Etting is controlled by Martin "The Gimp" Snyder (James Cagney), who builds a nightclub and makes Etting its star. Snyder catches Etting with musician Johnny (Cameron Mitchell) and goes to prison for trying to kill him, leaving Ruth to continue performing in Snyder's nightclub. Doris received some of the best notices of her career for this role.

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Pillow Talk (1959)
Womanizing songwriter Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) spends hours on the phone wooing his many women. Problem is, he shares a party line with prim interior decorator Jan Morrow (Doris Day), who's miffed because she can't get any calls. Then Brad gets a gander at Jan -- and it's lust at first sight. Realizing he's a goner if Jan learns his true identity, Brad concocts a Texas persona to seduce her. When the truth comes out, there's hell to pay. Thema Ritter is hilarious in this picture. As usual she play a domestic, sidekick to the lead actress, Doris.

It Happened to Jane (1959)
Single mother and fishmonger Jane Osgood (Doris Day) may be in over her head when she receives a large order from the Marshall Town Country Club for lobsters. Unfortunately, she fails to deliver, as the supply arrives ruined because of a train delay. To compensate for her business loss, Jane enlists her admirer, George Denham (Jack Lemmon), to sue the railway's owner (Ernie Kovacs) in a fight that winds up longer than the train route itself. Doris stikes a blow for feminism with this character. She stand up to the railway owner like the best of businessmen & hilarity ensues.
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These last three movies are all examples of Box office queen and "world's oldest virgin".

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Algonquin Round Table member and showbusiness wit Oscar Levant, who had known Day earlier in her career, summed up the paradox of Day's late-blooming ingenue phase when he famously said, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin." But the public loved Day's light, frothy comedies of this period, buying enough tickets to make her by far the top female movie star in America during the first half of the 1960s.

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Sideways Sam wanted his picture taken with the Rat Pack.

The woman on the right is noted only as "a local Palm Springs Beauty".

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Please have a happy HNT!