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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

On this day in movie history - Send Me No Flowers (movie & play):


Send Me No Flowers

directed by Norman Jewison,
written by Julius Epstein,
based on the play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore,
was released in the United States on October 14, 1964.
Music by Frank De Vol.


Cast:

Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde, Clint Walker, Hal March, Edward Andrews, Clive Clerk, Patricia Barry, Dave Willock.

Recommended reading:


Send Me No Flowers

A play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore.

Originally published 1960.
Published by Concord Theatricals.
Paperback.
ASIN: B0D5SYSRF9
ISBN-10: 057361525X
ISBN-13: 978-0573615252

Description:

A comedy in three acts.

David Wayne starred on Broadway as George Kimball, a Westchester commuter whose favorite hobby is hypochondria. When he mistakenly overhears his doctor discussing another patient with heart trouble, he prepares to meet the end bravely, sure it is 'his time'. Putting his affairs in order, he writes a heartbreaking letter to his wife to be read as his eulogy. He even arranges a good second husband for his soon-to-be widow, with a cemetery plot for three: himself, his wife and the new future 'Mister Kimball'.

Monday, October 6, 2025

On this day in movie history – Pillow Talk (movie & novel):


Pillow Talk

directed by Michael Gordon,
written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene,
was released in the United States on October 6, 1959.
Music by Frank De Vol.


Cast:

Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Karen Norris, Julia Meade, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio, Lee Patrick, Mary McCarty, Alex Gerry, Hayden Rorke, Valerie Allen, Jacqueline Beer, Arlen Stuart.

Recommended reading:


Pillow Talk

By Marvin H. Albert.

Published by Gold Medal.
Published 1959.
ASIN: B000ARHC90
Vintage paperback
Filmed as Pillow Talk (1959), directed by Michael Gordon.

Back cover description:

Good connections.
Doris Day plays the interior decorator who has designs on men.
Rock Hudson and Tony Randall are the men who fall for her, hook, line and sinker.

Friday, December 20, 2024

On this day in movie history - Lover Come Back (1961):


Lover Come Back

directed by Delbert Mann,
written by Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning,
was released in the United States on December 20, 1961.
Music by Frank De Vol.


Cast:

Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie, Jack Kruschen, Ann B. Davis, Joe Flynn, Howard St. John, Karen Norris, Jack Albertson, Charles Watts, Donna Douglas, JoAnne Ludden-Paige.

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

On this day in movie history - Undertow (1949):


Undertow

directed by William Castle,
written by Arthur T. Horman and Lee Loeb,
based on a story by Arthur T. Horman,
was released in the United States on December 3, 1949.
Music by Milton Schwarzwald.


Cast:

Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett, Gregg Martell, Robert Anderson, Dan Ferniel, Rock Hudson, Charles Sherlock, Anne P. Kramer, Robert Easton.