You won't be disappointed!

Simply A Masterpiece

Awesome Movie

Blistering performances.

The overall message is rather similar to that in Änne Get Your Gun", from the early '50s: It's OK for women to work outside the home, as long as this doesn't upset their husband or boyfriend too much(which it does in this case). Also, a woman's job outside the home should not be so all consuming that it swamps her private life, and so long that it doesn't upset your husband or boyfriend that you may make more money than he does, or become too big of a celebrity because of your job(which happened this case). Today, many couples need 2 incomes to survive or attain their goals. In the case of Beverly(Doris), this appears to not have been the case. As a baby doctor, presumably her husband (played by James Garner) made a substantial income, as he claims: enough for them to live comfortably. Hence, in his mind, there was no need for Doris to concern herself as a high paid TV advertising celebrity . At first, Beverly's job didn't interfere too much with her role as a wife and mother. But, soon it did. Also, she had become too much of a celebrity for Jim, with people clamoring to get her autograph, and her huge head filling big billboards. He was jealous..... I don't know if Beverley was making more money than Jim, but in my case, my wife definitely makes more money than I do, with her 2 jobs. She would be lost without either of them. I don't mind a bit, as we need all her income to achieve a lifestyle that she wants. Also, the fact that I am 20 years older pretty much eliminates 'sibling' rivalry as a negative factor( a10 year spread should be good enough). This becomes a big factor in the marriage we are dealing with here......The screenplay is mostly centered around a product: Happy Soap, which Beverly discovers her young daughter prefers as a shampoo.(Wouldn't a liquid formulation make more sense than a bar for shampooing?) She tells this story to a man( Reginald Owen, as Old Tom Fraleigh), who happens to be the head of the company that makes Happy Soap, and he wants her to go on TV and tell her story. At first very reluctant, eventually the salary wins her confidence. Her first try, on live TV ,is a disaster, but, strangely, viewers call or write in about her genuine story. So, she is given a long term contract to do the commercial, for a huge salary. She continues with the TV, as well as billboard, ads until near the end of the film, when the negative fallout becomes overwhelming, and she quits. ......The plot contains another major thread that is relevant from beginning to end: Arlene Francis, as Mrs.. Fraleigh, begins the film in a highly elated mood, because she has been confirmed as pregnant, something she has wished for years. She credits Jim for her success, and has him check on her pregnancy periodically. Near the end, Jim will deliver her baby in the back seat of a car, as they are stuck in traffic. This is the climax of the story. However, probably the most exciting scene is the monster soap bubble conglomeration arising from the swimming pool, that enters the house when the window or door is opened. It's hilarious to see workmen scooping up the mess and putting it in trucks, from which it blows into nearby yards. There is periodic slapstick, and a very animated Doris when she get furious. Beverly's two young children add a nice touch, behaving like children of that age. Reginald Owen, as Old Tom Freleigh, is a scream, especially at dinner. .....On the whole, I think most you will enjoy this funny film, with a message.

This is a movie I remember from childhood. It was on TCM last night and I watched expecting it to be really stupid. Some of the parts I loved as a kid were now not so good, but what I couldn't understand then, I see now as truly witty and quite ahead of its time. People can say that it is a cop out on feminism, but Doris's character got a chance at a major career and found out that it interfered with what was more important to her, her family. Is that a cop out? Quite the opposite. I wish that even now the editor could come back and trim some of the bad stuff (those kids were not actors, obviously family members of some producer). The suds gag was pretty neat in some ways but way too much in others. Day? She was such an underrated actress. Here she is so darned lovable, funny and sexy. Garner was an even better match than Hudson. He is gorgeous but less the pretty boy than Rock and found a lot of humor coming from the character's seriousness. This movie has a very good script with a pretty interesting conflict. The sexual talk is surprisingly quite frank even to this day. It is so nice to see a couple who is truly in love with each other. Yet, this is still a family film. A very sexy one but undoubtedly wholesome.

The period right before the sexual revolution of the 60s seems to have produced some movies with an astonishing degree of hatred of women as themes, almost as if America's collective unconscious knew that women were about to take charge of their lives and had to put up a fight. This is one of them. Even though she is provided with a really lovely wardrobe (oddly - or not - at least half the items in it are in the lingerie category -- things you wear only inside the house), Doris Day here plays the infantilized chattel of her handsome, boorish doctor husband, James Garner.She's offered a job as a spokeslady for a soap company looking for a wholesome image, and when she starts to enjoy it, her husband does everything he can to ruin things for her and mess with her head. This is nothing like the sparring of previous eras, among pairs of people like Katherine Hepburn, Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, and whoever they were dealing with. Here Doris Day is sweet, sincere, and childish -- she can't figure out what $1500 a week would amount to for a year!! -- her husband holds all the power, clearly needs to give her permission to do things, and is not above psychopathy. These games are no fun when only one player has any adult power.

A doctor's wife becomes a star of soap commercials, leading to marital strain and hilarity. Like the other comedy that Day and Garner teamed up for in 1963, "Move Over, Darling," this fluffy comedy is no classic but is entertaining. Reflecting the times, Garner is not too happy about his wife working even though she gets obscene money. Day and Garner have good chemistry. The funniest moments are Garner pretending to be drunk and Andrews going into panic mode as Francis gives birth while trapped in a traffic jam. Reiner, who wrote the screenplay, has a running gag as a TV character who gets drinks thrown in his face after getting fresh with women.