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Pillow Talk

  • 1959
  • Passed
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
18K
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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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ComedyRomance

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.

  • Director
    • Michael Gordon
  • Writers
    • Stanley Shapiro
    • Maurice Richlin
    • Russell Rouse
  • Stars
    • Rock Hudson
    • Doris Day
    • Tony Randall
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    18K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Michael Gordon
    • Writers
      • Stanley Shapiro
      • Maurice Richlin
      • Russell Rouse
    • Stars
      • Rock Hudson
      • Doris Day
      • Tony Randall
    • 114User reviews
    • 55Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 8 wins & 13 nominations total

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    Trailer 2:21
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    Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk (1959)
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    Doris Day in Pillow Talk (1959)
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    Doris Day "Pillow Talk" 1959 Universal
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    Rock Hudson
    Rock Hudson
    • Brad Allen
    Doris Day
    Doris Day
    • Jan Morrow
    Tony Randall
    Tony Randall
    • Jonathan Forbes
    Thelma Ritter
    Thelma Ritter
    • Alma
    Nick Adams
    Nick Adams
    • Tony Walters
    Julia Meade
    Julia Meade
    • Marie
    Allen Jenkins
    Allen Jenkins
    • Harry
    Marcel Dalio
    Marcel Dalio
    • Pierot
    Lee Patrick
    Lee Patrick
    • Mrs. Walters
    Mary McCarty
    Mary McCarty
    • Nurse Resnick
    Alex Gerry
    Alex Gerry
    • Dr. A.C. Maxwell
    Hayden Rorke
    Hayden Rorke
    • Mr. Conrad
    Valerie Allen
    Valerie Allen
    • Eileen
    Jacqueline Beer
    Jacqueline Beer
    • Yvette
    Arlen Stuart
    • Tilda
    Perry Blackwell
    Perry Blackwell
    • Perry
    Robert B. Williams
    Robert B. Williams
    • Mr. Graham
    Muriel Landers
    Muriel Landers
    • Moose Taggett
    • Director
      • Michael Gordon
    • Writers
      • Stanley Shapiro
      • Maurice Richlin
      • Russell Rouse
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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)

    User reviews114

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    8/10
    A New Screen Coupling Creates Box Office Magic
    By 1958, Doris Day's career was on the downslide and something drastic needed to be done to revive her career. 1959'S PILLOW TALK redefined Doris' image and created an entirely new genre of the "will she or won't she" sex comedy as well as introducing one of the greatest romantic screen couplings in history...Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Day plays Jan Morrow, an interior decorator who shares her phone line with Brad Allen (Hudson) a song-writing playboy who ties up Doris' phone by singing love songs (actually the same song) over the phone to the parade of women in his life. Day's attempts to get a private phone line fail and she and Hudson begrudgingly come up with a system to share the phone which Hudson doesn't stick to. Tony Randall plays Jonathan Forbes, a rich playboy who is a client of Doris' and Rock's best friend, who is crazy about Doris but she doesn't feel the same way. One night, Brad discovers Jan at a nightclub and knowing she already hates him, pretends to be a wealthy Texan in order to romance her and this is where the fun begins. Yes, the story is dated because party lines are virtually a thing of the past but it is the linchpin upon which this story delightfully plays out. Director Michael Gordon cleverly uses split-screen images to put Doris and Rock together on screen in seemingly compromising positions, very adult for 1959 and watching Brad pretending to be cowboy Rex Stetson, trying to romance Jan while Brad tries to advise Jan over the phone about what a cad Rex is, is a lot of fun. Day lights up the screen here, in a luminous performance that earned her her first and only Oscar nomination. Hudson, previously only seen in dramatic films up to this point, turns out to be gifted farceur and interviews in his later years, always credited Doris for teaching him how to do comedy. Randall is comic perfection as Jonathan as is Thelma Ritter, who was also nominated for an Oscar for her work as Jan's housekeeper. A delight from start to finish that introduced a new movie couple that would give Fred and Ginger and Spenceer and Kate a run for their money.
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    • Release date
      • October 7, 1959 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Any Way the Wind Blows
    • Filming locations
      • Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Arwin Productions
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $9,134
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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