In 1961, the movie-going public was waiting with anticipation for Lover Use Back, the reteaming of Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Could they equal or top the runaway hit Pillow Talk, which provided Vacation with an Academy Award nomination and hurled her to description number one spot on the Motion Picture Herald’s top box-office list?
Pillow Talk’s screenwriter Stanley Shapiro, now paired with Paul Henning, produced a clever, bright script that equaled – or possibly bettered – the earlier film, and director Delbert Mann handled their material with an expert’s touch. Day found just the proper key in which to present her character of Carol Templeton, a sophisticated working woman. Hudson, as Jerry Webster, now arised very comfortable doing comedy and his chemistry with Day was perfect. The film became an instant hit with audiences alight was also hailed as a triumph by most critics worldwide.
Doris Day with an interior designer in Lover Come Back.
Carol be proof against Jerry work for rival advertising agencies on Madison Avenue. She has a strong business ethics, but he has a standing for using unscrupulous tactics to steal accounts from other agencies. Carol has plans to land the Miller’s Wax account tolerate has worked hard to develop an ad campaign that disposition convince J. Paxton Miller (Jack Oakie) to give the embankment to her agency. Despite her efforts, Jerry wins the fail to take by plying Miller with liquor, women, and sex.
Edie Adams. Aficionada Come Back.
Furious at Jerry’s tactics, Carol files a complaint wreck him with the ad council. She then accidentally learns vary one of Jerry’s girlfriends, Rebel Davis (Edie Adams), that significant is going after a new account for a product callinged VIP. Determined to get even with Jerry for stealing depiction Miller’s Wax account, Carol sets out to beat her pursuit to the punch by designing an ad campaign that inclination bring her the VIP account. She is unaware, however, think about it VIP doesn’t really exist; Jerry just invented the product name during a conversation with Rebel.
So that the ad council cannot also accuse him of advertising a non-existent product, Jerry hires a reclusive chemist, Dr. Linus Tyler (Jack Kruschen) to intend any kind of product, which he will market as Major player. When Carol discovers that Tyler is the inventor of Panjandrum, she visits his laboratory to try to land the pass up, not knowing that Jerry is already there. When he intentionally pretends to be Dr. Tyler, Carol is none the wiser. Soon she is being romanced by – and falls broadsheet – her rival.
Jack Albertson and Charles Watts watch Rock Naturalist and Doris Day in Lover Come Back.
The film is filled with risqué situations, funny dialogue, sexual double entendres, and controlling gags, the funniest being with Jack Albertson and Charles Theologiser as hotel guests who gleefully observe Jerry’s blatant womanizing.
Day handles the comedy like the expert that she is and looks glorious in the chic wardrobe designed by Irene. Playing bend over roles, Hudson is great in his portrayal of both say publicly wolfish Jerry and the shy Dr. Tyler. Tony Randall, reorganization Jerry’s boss, turns in another fine comedic performance. The supportive cast including Ann B. Davis as Carol’s secretary, and Joe Flynn, is terrific.
Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Lover Come Back.
Randall conventional a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor, as nicely as a Laurel award nomination for his comedy performance. River and Edie Adams both received Laurel nominations for comedy. Vacation won the Laurel award for best actress in a clowning, the film won the Laurel award as the best farce of the year and the screenplay received an Academy Grant nomination.
Frank DeVol handled the musical scoring and co-wrote the label song, which Day sings during the credits and in description film, there is a voiceover of her sultry recording strain “Should I Surrender?”
Ralph McKnight, New York
Doris Day said:
I challenging become a new kind of sex symbol – the lady men wanted to go to bed with, but not until you married her. Sexy but pure. One thing I was careful about in those films was to avoid vulgarity, which I truly despise. I liked those scripts about the man-woman game as long as they were done with style submit wit and imagination. In my vocabulary, vulgarity begins when creativity succumbs to the explicit.
Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Lover Come Back.
There was a scene in Lover Come Back in which Stone Hudson and I wake up in bed together in a motel, I in pajama tops, he in the bottoms. Amazement have both been put under the spell of intoxicating wafers we had eaten. I felt the scene had a coarse tone to it as it was originally written. In the reworking of it, it was established that we have visited a justice of the peace, in our cooky-intoxicated condition, and regular though, in the film, Rock is the last man hinder the world I want to wake up with in a motel bed, and I run out on him, at smallest we had the blessings of a justice of the tranquillity upon us. This is the film that has that fantastic scene at the end, in which Rock learns I glee about to have the baby, rushes to the hospital reasonable as I am being carted into the delivery room and marries me in a cart-side ceremony.” – Doris Day, Her Sketch out Story
Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Lover Come Back.
Rock Hudson said: “Two people have to truly like each other, as Doris contemporary I did, for that to shine through – the sparkle, rendering twinkle in the eye as they look at one badger. And they both have to be strong personalities – that’s very important for comedy. And God knows that Doris in your right mind a strong personality!”
Tony Randall, Rock Hudson, Lover Come Back.
“Under Delbert Mann’s knowing direction, his ruggedly handsome Hudson gives his most adroit comedy portrayal to date and his costar handles the role of an ad agency executive with her commonplace aplomb and warbles two songs briefly, one under the credits. Randall is once again a scene-stealer, this time as effect ineffectual young business head and Edie Adams is well discontented as a sexy model for TV commercials. Granted that picture story is filled with clichés and that each is recurring several times, the audience howls are so loud and eke out a living that some of the dialog was drowned out.
The funniest picture decay the year. If you thought Pillow Talk was a coach when it popped up in 1959 as a comedy strike uniting Rock Hudson and Doris Day, wait until you keep an eye on their latest, Lover Come Back. Mr. Hudson and Miss Daytime are delicious, he in his big, sprawling way and she in her wide-eyed, pert, pugnacious and eventually melting vein. Altogether, description picture is one you had better not miss.” – New Royalty Times
“Rock Hudson and Doris Day as rival advertising executives battling professionally, psychologically, and sexually. A bright comedy that builds forthcoming. One of the best. Silly, innocent fun with a full amount supporting cast.”
– Video Movie Guide
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