Of course, Doris Day made half-a-dozen musicals with Gordon MacRae in the early 1950's at Warner Brothers. Then there were two with Cagney, and the three with Rock Hudson. But the two films she made with James Garner are two of my favorite films of hers, and "The Thrill of It All" is just as good as "Pillow Talk", the best of her three with Rock.
Doris plays a housewife and mother, married to baby doctor James Garner, suddenly thrust into the limelight when she becomes the spokesperson for a shampoo and soap. This means that she spends more time on commercial sets and in photo shoots then she does with her husband and children, and this drives husband Garner batty. A misunderstanding has housekeeper zasu Pitts storming out in the middle of the night, and the German housekeeper they hire to replace her barely understands English. Garner decides that the only way to win her back is to make her think that he's seeing another woman on the side, but circumstances bring them back together in the most hysterical of ways.
Rather than open with a normal Doris Day song over the credits, there is a title song but it is sung by a chorus. That is after a hysterical prologue where the aging Arlene Francis giddily saunters up an elevator to give husband Edward Andrews some amazing news. She's one of Garner's patients, and having him and day over for dinner leads her to convince her father, veteran actor Reginald Owen, that she is the right spokeswoman for his product.
The mixture of romantic misunderstandings and farce (especially a sequence involving a suds filled swimming pool) will keep you entertained from start to finish. Familiar character actors pop in and out, among them Burt Mustin as Owen's drunken butler, Elliot Reid as Doris's agent and Ellis Pierce as a member of a caravan of cars stuck in a traffic jam. This film is hysterical from start to finish and has a very amusing finale that is quite risque considering that there was still a strict production code and the ending indicated exactly what was about to happen.
Doris plays a housewife and mother, married to baby doctor James Garner, suddenly thrust into the limelight when she becomes the spokesperson for a shampoo and soap. This means that she spends more time on commercial sets and in photo shoots then she does with her husband and children, and this drives husband Garner batty. A misunderstanding has housekeeper zasu Pitts storming out in the middle of the night, and the German housekeeper they hire to replace her barely understands English. Garner decides that the only way to win her back is to make her think that he's seeing another woman on the side, but circumstances bring them back together in the most hysterical of ways.
Rather than open with a normal Doris Day song over the credits, there is a title song but it is sung by a chorus. That is after a hysterical prologue where the aging Arlene Francis giddily saunters up an elevator to give husband Edward Andrews some amazing news. She's one of Garner's patients, and having him and day over for dinner leads her to convince her father, veteran actor Reginald Owen, that she is the right spokeswoman for his product.
The mixture of romantic misunderstandings and farce (especially a sequence involving a suds filled swimming pool) will keep you entertained from start to finish. Familiar character actors pop in and out, among them Burt Mustin as Owen's drunken butler, Elliot Reid as Doris's agent and Ellis Pierce as a member of a caravan of cars stuck in a traffic jam. This film is hysterical from start to finish and has a very amusing finale that is quite risque considering that there was still a strict production code and the ending indicated exactly what was about to happen.