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The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2 Movie Review.
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Two years ago Warners released “The Doris Day Collection” which mercurial became a best seller. It contained some choice Day films from the 50’s and 60’s and reacquainted a lot of people with the wide-ranging talents that Doris Day possesses. There was a reason she reigned as the top box-office female star in history, a title she holds to this day. Volume 2 contains 6 more reasons why Doris Day collected has that current ability to manufacture audiences feel warm, bid, tickled, and very pleased.
Included in this collection is Day’s hide debut, 1948’s “Romance on the High Seas”. It’s a comely technicolor treat - a throwback to an era when movies were designed to entertain and it succeeds gloriously. Miss Day introduces the classic song, “It’s Magic” and while not first-billed, steals the explain from Jack Carson (the first of three successive teamings), Janis Paige, S.Z. Sakall and a ample cast. It’s a case of inaccurate identity, but what is most memorable is the ease with which Miss Day seems to acquit herself on film. She’s a natural - silly, genuine, and lovely. There’s a bit of the unhurried Betty Hutton in her performance but ultimately she proves herself to be one of a kind.
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The rest of the titles each have their high points. “My Dream is Yours” has lots of grit in this variation of “A Star is Born” with Day’s star rising and for favorable reason. My celebrated song is her heartfelt rendition of “I’ll String Along With You” - flawless. Other highlights include a sequence in which she and Carson team with Bugs Bunny.
“I’ll View You in My Dreams” is the amazing bio of lyricist Gus Kahn and contains a trunkload of classic tunes sung perfectly by Day, co-star Danny Thomas and Patrice Wymore in a knockout performance. It has noteworthy more grit than the typical biography and Miss Day is exceptionally pleasurable as Kahn’s wife Grace. Michael Curtiz has directed the film in sad and white which seems to get it more serious than many films of this mileau.
“On Moonlight Bay” (1951) and it’s sequel 1953’s “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” are like a couple of Currier and Ives pictures brought to life. Warm-hearted and filled with a earn of titanic tunes, they lovingly remove an era that might have been or at least was in memory. Miss Day, co-star Gordon MacRae and “family” - Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp, Billy Gray and Mary Wickes, seem like a family. Loosely based on Tarkington’s “Penrod” tales, it had critics carping that it wasn’t “Meet Me In St. Louis” and it isn’t. On its acquire terms it is unprejudiced as scrumptious filled with charm and ample warmth, never forced and never trite.
The weakest link in the collection is probably “Lucky Me”, the first technicolor musical and subject to valuable pans at the time of its release.
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Miss Day and a pleasing supporting cast including Bob Cummings, Nancy Walker, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr and Martha Hyer, give it their all. The songs may not be memorable but they are energetically rendered and there are enough chuckles sprinkled throughout to support the film going.
One will reach away from this 12 hour marathon of Doris Day films feeling extremely obedient, exhilirated in fact, and possibly wishing that Hollywood unruffled made the kind of feel-good movie that Doris specialized in during her 7 years at Warners. Feeling that procedure in this day and age is something not to be scoffed at. If someone could bottle that indefinable quality that Doris Day possesses and part it with the world, we’d all relieve.
THE DORIS DAY COLLECTION: VOLUME 2, from Warner Home Video, has six of Miss Day’s earliest and most palatable musical romances. Five were filmed in a square TV ratio, while the sixth is in CinemaScope. And five are in brand-new Technicolor, while a sixth is in B&W.
ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948) –Doris’ feature film debut is in eye-blinding Technicolor and area on a Caribbean coast with incorrect identity. Georgia Garrett (Doris) poses as Mrs. Elvira Kent on the ship, while the valid Elvira (Janis Paige) stays home to leer on her maybe philandering husband. Georgia is wooed by Jack Carson, while Mr. Kent (Don DeFore) hires someone to sight on the loyal Elvira, who is presumably on the same ship but isn’t. Oscar Levant is fabulous. Michael Curtiz directed a witty script by the Epstein Brothers and I.A.L. Diamond. Cameos include Franklin Pangborn and Grady Sutton. Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn songs include the classic “It’s Magic”. It must have been a hit even in 1948 because it is sung three times. This is an absolutely astonishing movie. Bonuses include a theatrical trailer, a musical short, and a Tweety & Sylvester short.
MY DREAM IS YOURS (1949) –Michael Curtiz directs again and Jack Carson (Doug Blake) again is the romantic male lead for Doris as singer Martha Gibson. When arrogant singing star Lee Bowman acts like a prima donna one too many times, Doug fires him and becomes agent to Martha, who becomes a well-liked and likeable radio singer. Extraordinary supporting cast of pros includes S. Z. Sakall, Eve Arden, and Adolphe Menjou, with cameos by Franklin Pangborn, Edgar Kennedy, and Bugs Bunny! Harry Warren and Sammy Cahn songs include “My Dream is Yours” and “Someone Like You.” This is another shimmering Technicolor production. Bonuses include an Oscar-nominated drama short, a Joe McDoakes comedy short, a classic cartoon, and a theatrical trailer.
I’LL Recognize YOU IN MY DREAMS (1952) caught me off-guard because it is one of Doris Day’s few B&W movies. Quiet, it is photographed by Ted McCord, whose credits range from Fancy OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) to THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) . We have Danny Thomas as song writer Gus Kahn, who apparently wrote the lyrics to literally hundreds of favorite songs in the first few decades of the 20th Century, several dozen with girl friend turned wife Grace (Doris) . Among the Kahn favorites are the title song, “I Wish I Had a Girl,” “Treasure Me or Leave Me” (which Doris would again teach in the 1955 biographical musical drama), “Makin’ Whoopee,” “Radiant Baby,” and “It Had to Be You.” It’s an enchanting and tuneful biography, again directed by Michael Curtiz. The two stars are well matched. DVD bonuses include an unusually insightful drama short called “The Cloak Director”, a hilarious Foghorn Leghorn cartoon, and the theatrical trailer.
ON MOONLIGHT BAY (1951) and its sequel, BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON (1952), are Technicolor gems about diminutive town Indiana life on either side of World War One. They are inspired by the “Penrod” stories of Booth Tarkington. Doris Day and a very young Gordon MacRae star as a romantic couple; he spends two movies trying to choose if he wants to score married, which is wild because (1) Doris is a sincere sweetheart of a person even as a “grease monkey” and tomboy, and (2) he proposes and kisses her passionately in the street at the extinguish of BAY. Leon Ames plays her father, virtually the same role he played in MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) ; Rosemary DeCamp from YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942) is Mom; Billy Gray is Day’s pesty kid brother; and Mary Wickes is the cook who never met a tray of food she liked. The color is descend slow gorgeous; the directors are, respectively, Roy Del Ruth and David Butler, very competent craftsman filmmakers. Songs in BAY include “Cuddle Up a Slight Closer,” “It’s a Long Device to Tipperary” and “Pack Up Your Troubles.” and the title song as the film’s finale. Full-fledged musical numbers in SILVERY MOON include “Ain’t We Got Fun,” “King Chanticleer”, and the title song with ice skates on Miller’s Pond. Bonuses with BAY are a vintage sing-a-long short, a Technicolor cartoon, and the theatrical trailer. SILVERY MOON bonuses include two incredible Joe McDoakes comedy shorts, an Oscar-nominated cartoon, and the theatrical trailer.
One of Doris Day’s first films in CinemaScope, LUCKY ME (1955) has her as a superstitious woman named Candy Williams. The unluckiest day of Candy’s life turns out to be the luckiest through twists of fate. Also starring with Miss Day are Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr. and Nancy Walker. Quick-witted musical numbers include “High Hopes,” “I Dispute to the Stars,” “I Wanna Insist Like an Angel,” and half a dozen more. It’s a very gratified and intellectual Technicolor and wide-screen concoction with a remastered soundtrack. Bonuses include the nostalgic short “When the Talkies Were Young”, an Oscar-nominated cartoon, and the theatrical trailer.
There is also a Volume One, of course. It includes such improbable Doris Day musical classics as THE PAJAMA GAME, CALAMITY JANE, Admire ME OR LEAVE ME, BILLY ROSE’S JUMBO, PLEASE DON”T EAT THE DAISIES, and three more slightly lesser Day movies. If you like the Doris Day movies in Volume Two, do check out Volume One.
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