Doris Day: the wholesome face of postwar American optimism

The Guardian ^ | 05/13/2019 | Peter Bradshaw

[MrEdd]

From the nineteenth of October, 1950 when Chinese forces crossed the Yalu river and joined North Korean forces until the cease fire in 1953.

So roughly from a year before the movie was shot until a year after it was released.

[Fiji Hill]

We were fighting a hot war with China in Korea at the time. Doris’ lover must have found it doubly disturbing that she vowed to head not only for an exotic location but one behind the Iron Curtain.

[patriot08]

Wouldn’t that have been something!!?!!?

Reagan as president and Doris Day as first lady wow!!
Two all American icons, and treasures that we will never see the likes of again

[patriot08]

“Too bad her personal life wasn’t as wholesome.”
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She had bad luck at choosing husbands.
Her first husband kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant.
Her tears in ‘Midnight Lace’ were real. The tears on the stair
screen brought back the time her husband pushed her down the stairs. She was so emotionally upset that she had to take three days off from production.