Post by Isapop on May 13, 2019 15:22:52 GMT
If I had to pick only one film to show off Doris Day it would be Love Me Or Leave Me. Both her singing and her dramatic chops are on display in abundance there.
She turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. A pity. (Not disparaging Anne Bancroft.) Doris Day would have be a casting stroke of genius. It would have placed the audience right in the shoes of Benjamin. We would have totally empathized with the shock he feels when the way he has thought about this woman his whole life gets abruptly upended.