nprfreshair: Doris Day on ‘Que Sera Sera’: “The first time somebody told me it was going to be in that movie, I thought, ‘Why?’ I didn’t think there was a place to put that song. … I thought, ‘I’m not crazy about that. Where are they going to put it? For what?’ … I didn’t think it was a good song.” [complete interview here] I love her so much! And her laugh sounds the same.
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nprfreshair:

Doris Day on ‘Que Sera Sera’: “The first time somebody told me it was going to be in that movie, I thought, ‘Why?’ I didn’t think there was a place to put that song. … I thought, ‘I’m not crazy about that. Where are they going to put it? For what?’ … I didn’t think it was a good song.” [complete interview here]

I love her so much! And her laugh sounds the same.

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oldhollywood:

Doris Day - Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It)

Piano: André Previn

Actually, it is the comic obstacle course of Doris Day’s life, her lack of instinctive knowledge about “being a woman,” and the concomitant drive, ambition, and energy that are closer to the American reality … Where Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly have only to lift a finger or an eyebrow, Doris Day must work hard, and for a happiness that seems more often than not to hang by a thread.

I’m on “The Fifties” chapter of Molly Haskell’s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies.  I haven’t agreed with some of the points she makes (a few of the things she says seem very dated, since the book came out in 1974*), but a large amount of what she says makes a whole lot of sense.

*I’m reading the second edition which came out in 1987.