Pillow Talk (1959) |
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Pillow Talk Cast |
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Doris Day
(as Jan Morrow)
with Rock Hudson
(as Brad Allen)
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Other InformationAwardsBest Written American Comedy Writers Guild of America, USA [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Top Male Comedy Performance Laurel Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: 3rd place) Top Female Supporting Performance Laurel Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Top Female Comedy Performance Laurel Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: Won) Top Comedy Laurel Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Supporting Actor Golden Globes [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy Golden Globes [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture - Comedy Golden Globes [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Academy Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Academy Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actress in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen Academy Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: Won) Gold Medal Photoplay Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Won) Plot SummaryThe 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 opportu... TaglineIt`s what goes on when the lights go off! Footloose bachelor...beautiful career girl...and the world`s most fascinating pastime! DiscographySinglesPossess Me You Lied I Need No Atmosphere Inspiration Roly Poly Pillow Talk |
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Pillow Talk (1959) was nominated for the following awards:
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Jonathan Forbes: Brad, she is the sweetest, she is the loveliest, she is the most talented woman I have ever met.
Brad Allen: That`s what you said when you married that stripper.
Jonathan Forbes: She wasn`t a stripper. She was an exotic dancer... with trained doves.
Brad Allen: Are you getting out of that bed, or am I coming in after you?
Jan: You wouldn`t dare!
Jan: If you`ll excuse me, I better go to the powder moon. I mean room. Fix my lipstick.
Jonathan Forbes: Well, they didn`t hit the moon with the first missile shot either.
Jan: Would you please get off this line!
Jan: Wonder how it would be to have someone to pillow talk with me?
Jan: At least my problems can be solved in one bedroom. You couldn?t solve yours in a thousand!
Brad Allen: Why don`t you take her over for the rest of the evening?
Jonathan Forbes: Me?
Brad Allen: Yeah! Take her dancing maybe. She`s dying to learn how to dance.
Jonathan Forbes: Wait wait. She doesn`t know how to dance?
Brad Allen: Well naturally, she doesn`t get out of the house very often.
Jonathan Forbes: What do you mean, "naturally"?
Brad Allen: Jonathan, believe me, you and Moose - I mean Miss Taggett will get along...
Jonathan Forbes: "Moose"?
Brad Allen: I`ve had hangovers before, but this time, even my hair hurts.
Alma: If there`s anything worse than a woman living alone, it`s a woman saying she likes it.
Jan: At least my problems can be solved in one bedroom. You couldn?t solve yours in a thousand! Brad Allen: Why don`t you take her over for the rest of the evening?
Jonathan Forbes: Me?
Brad Allen: Yeah! Take her dancing maybe. She`s dying to learn how to dance.
Jonathan Forbes: Wait wait. She doesn`t know how to dance?
Brad Allen: Well naturally, she doesn`t get out of the house very often.
Jonathan Forbes: What do you mean, "naturally"?
Brad Allen: Jonathan, believe me, you and Moose - I mean Miss Taggett will get along...
Jonathan Forbes: "Moose"? Brad Allen: I`ve had hangovers before, but this time, even my hair hurts. Alma: If there`s anything worse than a woman living alone, it`s a woman saying she likes it. Jonathan Forbes: You`ve been crying for 60 miles. [Jan and Brad are on the phone discussing a phone schedule]
Jan: We`re just going to have to live with each other...
[Jan pauses, waiting for a response]
Brad Allen: Well?
Jan: I was waiting for you to say some off-color remark.
Brad Allen: Is that all you have on your mind?
Jan: Never mind my mind! You just stick to your half hour and I`ll stick to mine! Jonathan Forbes: Owww!
Brad Allen: What?
Jonathan Forbes: That chair. It just bit me. Brad Allen: Look, I don`t know what`s bothering you, but don`t take your bedroom problems out on me.
Jan: I have no bedroom problems. There`s nothing in my bedroom that bothers me.
Brad Allen: Oh-h-h-h. That`s too bad. Jan: Mr. Allen, this may come as a surprise to you, but there are some men who don`t end every sentence with a proposition. Jan: Officer, arrest this man - he`s taking me up to his apartment!
Police Officer: Well, I can`t say that I blame him, miss.Trivia Rock Hudson insisted he would not make the film unless Nick Adams was given a part. 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, or spectacles. Hunter was told by the big movie chains that sophisticated comedies like "Pillow Talk" went out with William Powell. They also believed 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 Ross Hunter now had to deal with him on HIS terms. Spanish TV screened "Pillow Talk" on 20th July 1969 while everybody was waiting for the Apollo landing on the Moon. Suddenly, the film stopped and Spanish people could see the landing directly. The film was not reshown on TV until 1999, when Spanish viewers could, at last, see the ending! Michael Gordon had hoped to make a sequel to this film in 1980. It was to star Kristy McNichol as Jan and Brad Allen`s daughter and Gregory Harrison as her boyfriend. Unfortunately, Gordon was unable to lure Doris Day out of retirement to make the film. Rock Hudson turned down the film three times, believing the script to be "too risky". Towards the end of the movie Rock Hudson picks up Doris Day and carries her through the lobby and down the street. After many takes, Hudson`s arms were hurting, so they created a sort of sling which held Day in a crate-like device and hooked over Hudson`s shoulders to evenly distribute her weight. Julia Meade (Marie) did a commercial every Sunday night live on Ed Sullivan`s show, "Toast of the Town" (1948), in New York City. So every Saturday she flew back to New York City. This movie would be the first of three to showcase the trio of Doris Day, Rock Hudson and Tony Randall all together. It was followed by Lover Come Back (1961) and Send Me No Flowers (1964), with all three actors portraying different roles in each. In the diner scene near the end, the restaurant patrons were supposed to deck Tony Randall, who would fake a reaction to the blow and slide down "unconscious" in the booth seat. However, during filming the actor overestimated his hook and accidentally knocked out Randall for real. The shot wound up being so good that the accidental knockout is the one shown in the film. | ||
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