US Release Date: 07 August 1968

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• Doris Day — Abby McClure
• Brian Keith — Jake Iverson
• Pat Carroll — Maxine Scott
• Barbara Hershey — Stacy Iverson
• George Carlin — Herbie Fleck
• John Findlater — Flip McClure
• Alice Ghostley — Molly the Maid
• Jackie Joseph — Georgia Watson

Widowers Jake Iverson and Abby McClure both start dating and plan to marry. The problem for them is their children are not convinced this is such a good idea. This picture marked the end of an era for the Hollywood actress as it was her last feature length film before she made the transition into the world of television.

Director(s): Howard Morris
Producer(s): Martin Melcher
Studio: Warner-Pathe  (USA)
Comedy/Drama/Family/Romance
Technicolor-PanaVision
Alternate Title: This film was also known as A Man in Mommy’s Bed

US Release Date: 19 June 1968

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• Doris Day — Margaret Garrison
• Robert Morse — Waldo Zirrer
• Terry Thomas — Ladislaus Walichek
• Patrick O’Neal — Peter Garrison
• Lola Albright — Roberta Lane
• Steve Allen — Radio Announcer
• Jim Backus — Tru-Blue Lou

It’s 9 November 1965 and New York is having one of its largest blackouts leaving millions of Americans in the dark. This includes a New York executive (Zirrer) who is in the process of stealing a fortune from his company. Destinies take their course because of the outage with a Broadway actress (Garrison) and her husband finding themselves in the exec’s world. Some refer to this as a “misguided comedy”. The truth is it did little to reverse the critical and commercial downturn of Doris’s movie career during this period.

Director(s): Hy Averback
Producer(s): Robert Vreeland, Everett Freeman & Martin Melcher
Studio: MGM  (USA)
Comedy
MetroColor-PanaVision

US Release Date: 07 June 1967

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• Doris Day — Patricia Fowler
• Richard Harris — Christopher White
• Ray Walston — Stuart Clancy
• Jack Kruschen — Matthew Cutter
• Edward Mulhare — Sir Jason Fox
• Lilia Skala — Madame Piasco
• Michael J. Pollard — Barney

This playful, comedy-thriller was as close as any Day movie got to paying homage to the James Bond franchise. Doris plays Patricia Fowler who finds herself involved in some action packed capers as she investigates her Father’s suspicious death. She soon discovers that a cosmetic empire that he had been involved with was the front for international drug smuggling. This was the last movie that Doris actually sung a soundtrack song for and in this instance the title tune was a Parisian flavoured ballad.

Director(s): Frank Tashlin
Producer(s): Aaron Rosenberg & Martin Melcher (Co-Producer Barney Rosenzweig)
Studio: 20th Century Fox  (USA)
Comedy/Thriller
De-Luxe Color-CinemaScope

US Release Date: 01 February 1967

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• Doris Day — Josie Minick
• Peter Graves — Jason Meredith
• George Kennedy — Arch Ogden
• Andy Devine — Judge Tatum
• Audrey Christie — Annabelle Pettijohn

Josie Minick sets up business as a cattle rancher after being cleared of the manslaughter of her husband. Life would however be too simple if her troubles ended there as she next finds herself at war with the cattlemen of the town.

Director(s): Andrew V. McLaglen
Producer(s): Norman MacDonnell (Exec Producer: Martin Melcher)
Studio: Universal  (USA)
Comedy/Western
Technicolor-TechniScope

US Release Date: 09 June 1966

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• Doris Day — Jennifer Nelson
• Rod Taylor — Bruce Templeton
• Arthur Godfrey — Axel Nordstrom
• John McGiver — Ralph Goodwin
• Paul Lynde — Homer Cripps
• Edward Andrews — Gen. Wallace Bleecker
• Eric Fleming — Edgar Hill
• Dick Martin — Zack Molloy

Jennifer Nelson and Bruce Templeton meet when Bruce reels in her mermaid suit leaving Jennifer bottomless in the waters of Catalina Island. Bruce, a Government researcher, later hires Jennifer as his biographer in order to get close to her and win her affections. Misunderstandings result in this slapstick comedy with Jennifer mistaken as a Russian spy.

Director(s): Frank Tashlin
Producer(s): Martin Melcher & Everett Freeman
Studio: MGM  (USA)
Comedy/Romance
Colour (MetroColor-PanaVision)
Alternate Title: This film was also known as The Spy in Lace Panties

US Release Date: 22 December 1965

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• Doris Day — Janet Harper
• Rod Taylor — Mike Harper
• Hermione Baddeley — Vanessa Cartwright
• Sergio Fantoni — Paul

A farcical comedy centred around an American wool executive – Mike Harper – who is transferred to London (England). After setting up home his wife makes him jealous after she begins flirting with a French antique dealer. This was the first of two pictures made casting Doris alongside the Australian hunk Rod Taylor.

Director(s): Ralph Levy
Producer(s): Aaron Rosenberg & Martin Melcher
Studio: 20th Century Fox  (USA)
Comedy
De-Luxe Color-CinemaScope

US Release Date: 14 October 1964

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• Rock Hudson — George Kimball
• Doris Day — Judy Kimball
• Tony Randall — Arnold Nash
• Paul Lynde — Mr. Akins
• Hal March — Winston Burr
• Edward Andrews — Dr. Ralph Morrissey
• Clint Walker — Bert Power

This is the third and final movie made by Hollywood’s golden couple Rock Hudson and Doris Day. This time Rock plays a hypochondriac (George) who misunderstands his doctor and believes he is a dying man. Wanting to take care of his wife’s (Judy) future he doesn’t tell her the news. He instead secretly searches for a suitable replacement husband. George’s suspicious behaviour leaves his wife suspecting he is hiding an affair. She then leaves him. On the whole this is a fun film. On saying that unlike the previous pictures made by Day-Hudson this one starts to feels a little jaded by its end. The movie features the title theme song which was written by pop maestros Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

Director(s): Norman Jewison
Producer(s): Harry Keller (Executive Producer Martin Melcher)
Studio: Universal  (USA)
Comedy/Romance
Colour (Technicolor)

US Release Date: 19 December 1963

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• Doris Day — Ellen Wagstaff Arden (aka Eva Swensen and Eve)
• James Garner — Nicholas ‘Nick’/'Nicky’ Arden
• Polly Bergen — Bianca Steele Arden
• Thelma Ritter — Grace Arden
• Fred Clark — Mr. Codd, the Hotel Manager
• Chuck Connor — Stephen Burkett, aka Adam

This is the remake of the 1940′s comedy My Favorite Wife which was intended for blonde siren Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was never to finish the film and the role was later re-written for Doris. The story begins five years after Nicholas Arden’s wife disappeared and is declared legally dead. He then remarries and sets off to Monteray with his new wife Bianca. The same morning though the “missing” wife arrives home after being rescued by the Navy from a desert island. Two wifes + one husband – guarantees for a lot of laughs along the way as this madcap adventure unfolds. The “suggestive” title-tune to this slapstick movie became Doris’s biggest selling European single of the 1960s.

Director(s): Michael Gordon
Producer(s): Aaron Rosenberg & Martin Melcher
Studio: 20th Century Fox  (USA)
Romance/Comedy
Colour (DeLuxe Color-CinemaScope)
Alternate Title: This film was also known as Something’s Gotta Give (Working Title)

US Release Date: 17 July 1963

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• Doris Day — Beverly Boyer
• James Garner — Dr. Gerald Boyer
• Arlene Francis — Mrs. Fraleigh
• Edward Andrews — Gardiner Fraleigh
• Zasu Pitts — Olivia

Beverly Boyer is a “stay-at-home” wife and mother, married to obstetrician Dr. Gerald Boyer. By chance, Beverly becomes the face of “Happy” soap much to the dislike of her husband. This fast paced, screwball comedy follows the couple’s marital mayhem, including the unforgettable scene where a car ends up in a pool of bubbles. The chemistry between Garner and Day is electric!!

Director(s): Norman Jewison
Producer(s): Ross Hunter & Martin Melcher
Studio: Universal  (USA)
Comedy
Eastmancolor (Print by Technicolor)

US Release Date: 06 December 1962

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• Doris Day — Kitty Wonder
• Stephen Boyd — Sam Rawlins
• Jimmy Durante — Pop Wonder
• Martha Raye — Lulu
• Dean Jagger — John Noble

This Rogers and Hart musical revolves around a debt-ridden circus and the struggle to save it. The popularity of the Hollywood musical-movie was on the wane by the time this movie was released. As a result of moviegoers changing tastes this picture seriously underperformed at the box-office. Although it missed the boat commercially it did deliver a beautiful soundtrack of songs which received an Oscar nomination for Best (Adapted) Score.

Director(s): Charles Walters
Producer(s): Joe Pasternak & Martin Melcher
Studio: MGM  (USA)
Musical/Comedy/Romance
Colour (Metrocolor-PanaVision)
This film was also known as Jumbo