Pillow Talk

1959
Approved
1h 42m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

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Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, and Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk (1959)

Trailer for the hit comedy Pillow Talk starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson

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Screwball Comedy Comedy Romance

An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

20K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 1 Oscar
- 7 wins & 11 nominations total

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Trivia
Ross Hunter wrote that after he made this film, no theatre managers wanted to book it. Popular movie themes at the time were war films, westerns, and spectacles. Hunter was told by the big movie chains that sophisticated comedies like this movie went out with William Powell. They also believed that Doris Day and Rock Hudson were things of the past and had been overtaken by newer stars. Hunter persuaded Sol Schwartz, who owned the Palace Theatre in New York, to book the film for a two-week run, and it was a smash hit. The public had been starved for romantic comedy, and theatre owners who had previously turned down Hunter now had to deal with him on HIS terms.

Goofs
A party line phone would not ring if any phone on the line was off the hook. To call another phone on the same line, a special code was dialed, then the phone was hung up which would cause the originating phone to start ringing. When the phone stopped ringing, the caller would know that the other party had answered. This is not how Brad does it.

Quotes
Hotel clerk: There's no phone number, but I have a forwarding address.
Jonathan Forbes: 241 Stoneybrook Road.
Hotel clerk: Why yes sir.
Jonathan Forbes: [slams counter] And you let her go.
Hotel clerk: Well, it wasn't my place...
Jonathan Forbes: No, it's my place, and I helped him pack.

Crazy credits
As Doris Day sings 'Pillow Talk' over the closing credits, the film finishes with 'the end' on two horizontal pillows followed by 'not quite', 'not quite', 'not quite', 'not quite' stacked vertically on four pillows.

Connections
Featured in The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special (1971)

Soundtracks
Pillow Talk
Words and Music by Buddy Pepper and Inez James
Performed by Doris Day (uncredited)

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Featured review

Comedy to aid the sick!

So there I was, in my sick-bed when this film comes on. I start to watch, having never seen it before, and to my surprise, find myself laughing...out loud.

I have never really been a fan of either Doris Day or Rock Hudson, but I did enjoy this piece of fluff. And in our modern times when comedies currently released in the cinema can hardly raise a smile, let alone a laugh, I found this a pure delight. So the sexual politics maybe a little outdated, but there were some beautifully timed comedy set-pieces: The moment Doris Day discovers the real identity of Hudson's character has one of the best use of music I have seen in a movie since the Warner Bros cartoons!

A film that I didn't think I would enjoy, but was completely bowled over by.